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American businesses have a particular interest in personal health, since worker illness costs them billions each year in insurance claims, sick days and high staff turnover. A 2008 survey of major U.S. employers found that 64% consider their employees' poor health decisions a serious barrier to affordable insurance coverage. Now some companies are tackling the motivation problem head on, using tactics drawn from behavioral psychology to nudge their employees to get healthy...
...can’t say enough about Molly,” BC coach Katie King said. “She’s great. She really stepped up tonight, and she knew she was going to face some shots…She’s an extremely hard worker and just tries to do whatever she can to make the save, and she did that tonight...
...Huerta was instrumental in organizing the migrant farm workers of California’s fields and co-founded the UFW in 1962. Later that year she pushed for legislation repealing the inhumane Bracero Program, which legally exploited the labor of Mexican nationals. In 1965, she directed the UFW’s national grape boycott, which communicated the worker’s suffering to the consumers in order to end subhuman wages, worker abuses, poor living conditions, and the use of toxic pesticides, among other atrocities. Her efforts culminated in a three-year collective bargaining between the UFW and the entire...
...refugees outside of the country, a national unemployment rate of 94%, a cholera epidemic that has already killed 3,000 people and a currency rendered nearly useless by hyperinflation, Tsvangirai says the time for negotiation has passed. Explaining his decision to join Mugabe's government, the former mine worker compared the nation's humanitarian crisis to a bus hanging over a cliff: "If you allow it to tip over, we will all tip with it." (See pictures of political tension in Zimbabwe...
...standard corporate coping strategy during business downturns. In January, for example, U.S. employers eliminated 598,000 jobs - the most in any month in 34 years - but there was scant public debate over whether the layoffs were necessary or justified. Then again, laid-off U.S. and European workers are usually entitled to government support in the form of unemployment insurance and other programs. In Asia, governments have traditionally seen worker welfare as the purview of the company and family, not the taxpayer. Social security nets are far less developed...