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...includes librarians, secretaries and other administrative employees—found itself having to shield members from widespread layoffs andshield members from widespread layoffs and budget cuts implemented across the University this year. The impending June 30 expiration of the current contract has allowed the union an opportunity to demand worker protections...
Geoff Carens, meanwhile, a library worker in Government Documents, said he did not rule out the possibility of a union-wide strike if the new contract was not ratified. Still, he conceded that such an outcome was unlikely...
...social studies office worker said she was fired this week after administrators discovered provocative posts in her online journal, including threats to fellow workers and superiors...
...themselves as individuals, even promoting brands instead of the state." Indeed, more often than not, the mainland's most popular athletes are now picked by the free market. Liu Xuan, a pert gold medalist at the Games in Sydney, works as a model and starred as a plucky migrant worker in a movie called Far from Home. Fellow gymnast Li Xiaoshuang has recorded an album of pop ditties. Fu Mingxia, the legendary diver who first struck gold as a teddy-bear-carrying 13-year-old in Barcelona, has appeared on Sprite cans. "Sports is an industry now," says Guo, declining...
DIED. MARVIN RUNYON, 79, onetime auto-assembly worker who as Postmaster General from 1992 to 1998 pulled the U.S. Postal Service into the black; in Nashville, Tenn. Raising the stamp price only once (from 29˘ to 32˘), he cut 23,000 management jobs, hired more letter carriers and raked in $1 billion in profit. Runyon began his career in 1943 at a Ford plant in Dallas, where he climbed to the post of vice president before leaving in 1980 to become Japanese automaker Nissan's first employee in the U.S. As CEO of its American subsidiary, he built Nissan...