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...that a union would help facilitate conflict resolution. Employee Wimsky Jean said that when he approached Allied’s management about waiting six months to be paid for a week of vacation time, his supervisors responded with the threat of suspension. Jean said that he subsequently began receiving twice-a-day visits from his supervisor. “I’d rather lose my job for the sacrifice for others than not have a union,” he said. Repeated requests for comment yesterday afternoon to Rob Taylor, the Allied official overseeing the company?...
...major head start-a full year in which it will compete mainly with two older consoles, the PlayStation 2 and Nintendo's GameCube. Xbox game developers will also be busy. Microsoft says it expects that nearly 50 Xbox 360 game titles will be on sale by June, twice the number of games currently available...
...relationship we have,” said Mahoney, “I can assure the entire community that the building will be safe.” Arsine gas can lead to brown urine, dizziness, headache, and delirium. Lengthy exposure may cause paralysis or permanent nerve damage. University representatives met twice in the last month with Krimsky and Agassiz Neighborhood Council Clerk Stephen Diamond, outlining what specific chemicals would be stored in the new facility and presenting what the worst-case scenario could be. “I felt very comfortable that even under a worst case scenario two pounds would...
...laid off. Since those protections often make the country's employers wary of bringing on new hires, Villepin has made the "First Employment Contract" law the centerpiece of his effort to cut unemployment among 25-year-olds-and-less from its dismal rate of 22% - and as much as twice that much in the troubled cit?s of the "banlieues," the outlying suburbs (where many descendants of North African and sub-Saharan immigrants live) which exploded in violence last fall...
...Even if a severe pandemic occurs, Sandman points out, most people would probably survive. "Let?s say it kills 5% of infected people, which is twice as bad as 1918," he says. "That still means that 95% of people who get the flu have two weeks of hell and then they get better. And when they get better, long before the government makes a vaccine, they?ll be immune." We should then figure out how to gather these immunized folks, Sandman says, into volunteer groups to do the jobs?like food and water deliveries - that might be needed...