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Clinton's latest moves at least have the virtue of making the U.S. appear busy: pressing aggressive inspections, organizing a political opposition, plotting covert action, "preparing the battlefield" for insurrection. But the results are all too likely to prove insignificant when it turns out you can't cheaply subcontract a coup or ever track down 100% of Saddam's terror arsenal...
Subcontractor Maurer & Sforza, Inc. claims that Harvard and Shawmut Design and Construction, the general contractors hired by the University, did not abide by the conditions of the subcontract, according to a statement issued by Maurer & Sforza's lawyers...
...ANGELES: Community advocates and labor unions in California are gearing up for a fight over a scarcely noticed proposal in Gov. Pete Wilson's welfare reform plan which would privatize some aspects of welfare administration. The Wilson plan, which would subcontract responsibility for screening welfare recipients and other functions to private corporations and charities, may have broad implications as other states look for ways of streamlining their welfare programs. Private contractors in California already do some welfare administration, such as bookkeeping, collection of delinquent child support payments and computerized record-keeping. If approved, the reform plan would give them...
Yale is seeking the flexibility to subcontract and in return is offering union members a 10-year job guarantee. The university also promises to maintain an 85 percent staffing level of union jobs...
...merger-and-acquisition craze of the past decade also led to imprudent cost cutting. The elimination of relief crews, forced overtime and deferred (meaning neglected) maintenance have resulted in tired workers and worn equipment -- a deadly combination. There are further dangers in industries like oil and petrochemicals, where subcontracting has become a common money- saving move. Barely trained newcomers, many of them aliens with an imperfect grasp of English, are put at the controls of dangerous machinery, with predictable results. In Texas six major explosions at chemical plants and refineries have killed 47 workers in the past five years...