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Debunking the IT Shortage Myth: While Microsoft, Google, and Oracle are lobbying Congress to increase the number of H-1B temporary worker visas so they can meet what they describe as a shortage of skilled technology workers, many skilled technology workers who are already in the U.S. are reporting having trouble finding jobs. InformationWeek recently explored...; Tags: Benefits, H-1B, Worker, Salary, Information Technology, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Nicole Solis; Blog posts 2007-07-23
Costco Among Trailblazing Employers Saluted For Bucking Race-To-The- Bottom Labor Relations Trends: WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- While there is much to lament about the state of labor relations these days, American Rights at Work has chosen this Labor Day to applaud select employers for recognizing that their workers are their most valuable asWASHINGTON, Sept. 1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- While there...; Tags: labor relations, worker, Costco Wholesale Corp.; Research articles 2005-09-01
Reverse Brain Drain: Is It a Threat?: The Find: An extended interview with two experts reveals the increasing number of highly skills immigrants who are returning to their home countries and discusses whether the phenomenon represents a threat to U.S. business. The Source: A WorldFocus internet radio interview of Vivek Wadhwa, a senior research...; Tags: U.S., Immigrant, Worker, H-1B, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Jessica Stillman; Blog posts 2009-02-24
One-way ticket home: Layoff is a word that every employee dreads. But for foreign workers living in the U.S. on an H-1B visa, it is very difficult for them to do work.They have to pack up their belongings and return to their homelands. The H-1B visa program was designed to bring foreign workers...; Tags: H-1B Visa, Worker, H-1B, Human Resources, Labor Relations; White papers 2003-01-01
Pfizer Worries Spur Probe Into Use of Immigrant Workers: After noting a trend at Pfizer's Groton and New London, Conn., R&D campuses, U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Conn., said he will call for a Congressional probe into whether American companies are abusing the H-1B visa process to bring foreign workers to the U.S. in an attempt to displace locally contracted...; Tags: Pfizer Inc., Cost Reduction, Worker, Courtney, H-1B, Outsourcing, Human Resources, Labor Relations, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Jim Edwards; Blog posts 2008-12-07

The Labor Day Blues: It's Labor Day. Have you hugged a union member? I'll get to later today, when a neighbor who works for the gas company and his wife the teacher come over. Labor could use a hug, generally. It's not the force it was when my grandfather was...; Tags: Inequality, Worker, Labor Relations, Human Resources, Michael Fitzgerald; Blog posts 2008-09-01
Runyon delivers a turnaround.(US Postmaster General and CEO of US Postal Service Martin T. Runyon; includes related article on postal worker labor relations)(Cover Story): 00-00-0000 Bringing private-sector savvy to what may be the U.S.'s toughest management job, the Postmaster General energizes the once-staid U.S. Postal Service. 00-00-0000 Bringing private-sector savvy to what may be the U.S.'s toughest management job, the Postmaster General energizes the once-staid...; Tags: labor relations, U.S. Postal Service, worker; Research articles 1997-02-03
Collective Bargaining in the Face of Instability: A Resource for Workers and Employers in the U.S. Aerospace Industry: For employees and employers in the aerospace industry, collective bargaining represents an enormous challenge and opportunity. Collective bargaining serves two primary functions - it codifies past understandings and innovations, as well as establishing terms and conditions to guide future interactions. In the aerospace context, collective bargaining must remain constantly responsive...; Tags: Collective Bargaining, Aerospace, Worker, Labor Relations, Human Resources; White papers 2001-03-01

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Jar wars. (Tattle Tales).(Duke University ends boycott of Mt. Olive Pickle products)(Brief Article): Duke University President Nan Keohane ended the school's six-month boycott of Mt. Olive Pickle, citing steps the company has taken to improve labor relations and ... Duke University President Nan Keohane ended the school's six-month boycott of Mt. Olive Pickle, citing steps the company has ...; Tags: boycott, Duke University; Research articles 2002-11-01
A battle ahead. (law to overturn legislation that bans worker-management teams)(Brief Article): 00-00-0000 A CONFRONTATION BETWEEN BUSINESS and organized labor is shaping up in Congress over legislation that would overturn the National Labor Relations Board's "Electromation" decision, which bars companies from forming worker-management teams. The industry-backed Teamwork for Employees & Management TEAM Act has passed the...; Tags: team, U.S. Congress; Research articles 1995-09-18
Massachusetts Firm to Give Back Pay to Fired Worker who Supported Union.: By Diane E. Lewis, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 6--A Somerville company has agreed to provide more than four months' back pay to an employee who claimed he was fired illegally for supporting a union organizing drive....; Tags: Boston Globe, worker; Research articles 1998-03-06
Union decertification petition filed by ADT Security worker: A petition to terminate the Communications Workers of America union as representative for approximately 40 employees of ADT Security Services in Salt Lake City has been filed with the National Labor Relations Board. The union has represented employees at the ADT office, 536 E. 300 S., since the mid-1980s. An...; Tags: Adt Security Services Inc.; Research articles 2004-09-13
Boat companies, unions spar on worker access: Ongoing struggles to organize offshore boat workers could hinge on rulings from the National Labor Relations Board, and possibly the court system, on union demands for greater access to docks and boats. Union organizers claim the nature of the offshore industry, in which boat workers spend two weeks or more...; Tags: board, dock, worker; Research articles 2002-06-24
Mergers And Acquisitions: WARN And The NLRA: From the executive summary: ‘Many employment-related issues demand attention during the course of planning and implementing an M&A transaction, including several statutes that can complicate the transaction. Fortunately, the effects of these statutes can be easily managed with proper planning and foresight.' The paper examines this issue. In this context,...; Tags: M&A, Statute, Dorsey & Whitney, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance; White papers 2003-01-01
The impact of recent NLRB decisions on supervisory status: On September 29, 2006, the National Labor Relations Board NLRB or board issued a trilogy of landmark decisions that could have significant and far-reaching implications for as many as eight million American workers. (1) In these decisions, the board set forth important guidelines for determining whether an employee is a...; Tags: Judgment, Oakwood Healthcare Inc.; Research articles 2007-03-01
Workplace violence.(Hawaii. Department of Labor and Industrial Relations sues a women)(Brief Article): Workplace Violence. The Hawaii Supreme Court has ruled that a woman who was fired for joking about workplace violence is not entitled to unemployment benefits. Such benefits can be denied under state law if a worker was fired for misconduct. The employee, who had worked at the...; Tags: Hawaii, U.S. Department of Labor, women, workplace; Research articles 2006-02-01
Maryland House of Reps passes bill to reinstate Incumbent Worker: The state House of Representatives passed an amended bill last week re-authorizing the Incumbent Worker Training Program, which pays to train existing employees of any company established within the state. Now, the state Senate Labor & Industrial Relations Committee will consider the bill. Changes...; Tags: U.S. Senate, worker; Research articles 2003-05-05
The Secret to Better Globalization: Train the Company, Not the Worker: In July a Financial Times poll found that US citizens were three times more likely to believe globalization is having negative rather than positive effects. Because of increasing interconnectedness, many resources, human or otherwise, have been relocated. Competition is fierce and many feel their lifestyles are threatened. In everyday words,...; Tags: Competition, Globalization, Worker, Strategy, Management, Jessica Stillman; Blog posts 2007-08-15
Obama's Coming Battle Over Union Elections: Battles lines are already being drawn between President-elect Barack Obama and C-Suites. The drumbeat is going out, as if on cue, to oppose the Employee Free Choice Act, which would make it easier for labor unions to organize companies. The EFCA passed the House of Representatives last...; Tags: Worker, Obama, Calls, Peter Galuszka; Blog posts 2008-11-28
News from USW: Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc., to Compensate Former Employee It Fired for Calling Strike-Breaker a "Scab": ERWIN, Tenn. -- News from USW: Nuclear Fuel Services NFS in Erwin has agreed to compensate a salaried employee who the company discharged earlier in the year for referring to a replacement worker who crossed the union picket line at the plant during a strike as "a scab." Kim...; Tags: Nuclear Fuel Services Inc.; Research articles 2006-12-20