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- Labor government ready to invest $7.57 million for fast broadband connections
- The Labor government will reform network infrastructure for high-speed broadband jointly with telecommunications companies and will spend $2.75 billion. Opposition Leader Kim Beazley remarked that there should be a broadband system 25 times faster than cuThe Labor government will reform network infrastructure for high-speed broadband jointly with telecommunications companies and...
- Research articles 2006-06-01
- Labor's new link to connect with corporates.
- Byline: Glenda Korporaal Apr 25, 2007 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Lisa Middlebrook is the director of the Australian Labor Party's new Labor Business Forum. She first raised the concept of a permanent officer to liaise between Labor and business with Labor's...
- Research articles 2007-04-25
- U.S. Labor Dept. renews push to end silicosis
- With the help of 60 industry, labor, government, and professional organizations, the U.S. Labor Department aims to put new informational materials on preventing silicosis into the hands of 250K U.S. workers at risk for this lung disease. The planned educational push continues a national campaign to eliminate silicosis launched...
- Research articles 1998-01-01
- Labor Romps to Win in Britain Giving Mandate for Blair.
- By Kevin Cullen, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 8--LONDON -- Tony Blair and his Labor Party cruised to another landslide victory yesterday, overcoming apathy and a flaccid opposition to become the first Labor government ever to win back-to-back elections. ...
- Research articles 2001-06-08
- Australian government watching bank mega merger: PM
- SYDNEY AFP — Australian leader Kevin Rudd Wednesday said he was committed to maintaining competition in the banking sector, after two banks agreed to merge to create the nation's biggest financial services group. Prime Minister Rudd, whose centre-left Labor government has been critical of the fees charged by banks,...
- Research articles 2008-05-13
- Labor's greenhouse aspirations
- The Labor government aspires to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 60 per cent on year 2000 levels. Is this a realistic commitment? The issue is explored in the context of likely population growth in Australia from 21 million to 31.6 million by 2050. The population factor is ignored by the...
- Research articles 2008-06-01
- Slowing Down Government Contracting
- One of the major complaints within the Federal Government about contracting is the length of time it takes to award a contract. This issue affects all types of contracts, whether it is is buying new jet fighter or pencils or hiring Scientific, Engineering, Technical and Analysis SETA contractors. ...
- Blog posts 2009-06-29
- -AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT: Labor plot to grandstand on Tasmanian job losses backfires in Senate
- M2 PRESSWIRE-8 July 1998-AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT: Labor plot to grandstand on Tasmanian job losses backfires in Senate C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:020798 A Labor move to gain political mileage out of the recent tragic spate of job losses in Tasmania backfired today when the Senate rejected...
- Research articles 1998-07-08
- Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao Unveils E-Government Strategic Plan
- WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao today electronically signed into action the Labor Department's E-Government Strategic Plan. "Our plan provides the blueprint for transforming the Labor Department into a 'digital department,'" Chao said. "We are leading the way into the 21st century...
- Research articles 2003-02-19
- U.S. Labor Secretary to Announce e-Government Strategic Plan
- News Advisory: U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao will unveil the E- Government Strategic Plan for the Department of Labor on Wednesday, Feb. 19, at 2 p.m. The event will take place at the Department of Labor Auditorium. Secretary Chao will highlight the Labor Department's role in promoting...
- Research articles 2003-02-12
- How the Government Should Manage GM and Chrysler
- The federal government has rescued banks, insured a huge insurance company, and stepped up as a lender of last resort. Now, with its bailout of the auto industry, it's the functional equivalent of a bankruptcy judge, too. By agreeing to loan General Motors GM and Chrysler a combined $17.4 billion,...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Prison Labor As A Money Making Enterprise
- Both the Federal Government and some states use the readily available labor force of people in their prison systems to do contract work. In fact for the U.S. government contracts the Federal Prison Industry FPI company has priority for contracts. Often they can undercut a normal company as...
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- Australia Plans to Privatize Government Owned Electricity Production
- The Australian Government still owns three electrical power generators; as well as three electricity retail companies. Now the The Australian is saying that the government plans to sell these companies to private bidders. This had been proposed previously by the government but the terms were considered so bad...
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
- Obama's open-government director opens up
- On Tuesday morning, the Obama administration formally unveiled its Open Government directive, an effort aimed at weaving the philosophies of openness, transparency and participation into the DNA of the federal government and its agencies.That directive comes as a direct result of President Barack Obama's first executive action, on January 21,...
- News items 2009-12-08
- Are Employers Ready for More Change?
- With the "Kevin 07" victory behind us, the workplace relations landscape is set to change again in '08. It is expected that workplace relations in Australia will undergo a third round of changes since 2006. The current Labor government is seeking to restore the balance in the employment relationship...
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
- U.S. Government to Leave Opel Choice to GM
- By David Lawder and Christiaan Hetzner WASHINGTON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The Obama administration pledged on Monday to stay out of General Motors Co's choice of a buyer for its Opel unit in Europe as German union leaders put more pressure on the U.S. automaker to make a decision. Negotiations over Opel,...
- News items 2009-08-24
- Don't duck an opportunity. (employers' opportunity to discuss business issues with the Department of Labor)
- Businesses have a rare opportunity to gain an ear in the Labor Department. We see the proposal for a Labor Department liaison with the business community as a chance for employers to educate the government about business issues and needs, including thBusinesses have a rare opportunity...
- Research articles 1997-05-26
- Government's role in promoting labor-management cooperation - Reflections of Eight Former Secretaries
- Government's role in promoting labor-management cooperation W.J. USERY, JR. The founding in 1913 of the U.S. Department of Labor represented a landmark in prescribed governmental influence on labor-management relations. The founders of the Labor Department gave the Department the mandate to "foster, promote, and develop the welfare...
- Research articles 1988-02-01
- AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT: Labor condemns ABC to digital backwater.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-11 February 1999-AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT: Labor condemns ABC to digital backwater C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:110299 'Labor cannot be allowed to condemn the ABC to a digital backwater. Labor's knee-jerk ranting about the ABC is a direct attack on its future...
- Research articles 1999-02-11
- AFT postcard campaign protests arrests of Chinese labor leaders
- Perhaps in no place in the world today is the struggle for labor rights more difficult than in China, where despite the Chinese government's membership in the World Trade Organization and the International Labor Organization, labor organizers and activists face stark difficulties in their work. Far too often, efforts to...
- Research articles 2006-11-01
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