Friday, June 05, 2009
Tweet[IWS] NO MESSAGES until 12 July 2009
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
NO MESSAGES will be sent until 12 July 2009.
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This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
NO MESSAGES will be sent until 12 July 2009.
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This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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# posted by SBasefsky : 2:12 PM
[IWS] BLS: BEYOND BASIC BENEFITS: EMPLOYEE ACCESS TO OTHER TYPES OF BENEFITS, 1979-2008 [29 May 2009]
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
Compensation and Working Conditions Online
http://www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/home.htm
Beyond Basic Benefits: Employee Access to Other Types of Benefits, 1979-2008
byJohn E. Buckley
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Originally Posted: May 29, 2009
http://www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/cm20090527ar01p1.htm
Includes TABLES....
Since the late 1970s, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has collected data on employee access to various employer-provided benefits beyond the basics of health insurance, retirement savings, and vacation, sick and holiday leave. Periodically, BLS has modified the list of benefits by adding those that were increasing in popularity and dropping those that showed no growth, remained rare, or had limited user interest.
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Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
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New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
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_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
Compensation and Working Conditions Online
http://www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/home.htm
Beyond Basic Benefits: Employee Access to Other Types of Benefits, 1979-2008
byJohn E. Buckley
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Originally Posted: May 29, 2009
http://www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/cm20090527ar01p1.htm
Includes TABLES....
Since the late 1970s, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has collected data on employee access to various employer-provided benefits beyond the basics of health insurance, retirement savings, and vacation, sick and holiday leave. Periodically, BLS has modified the list of benefits by adding those that were increasing in popularity and dropping those that showed no growth, remained rare, or had limited user interest.
______________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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# posted by SBasefsky : 10:30 AM
[IWS] Kaiser: HEALTH REFORM GATEWAY - WEB PAGE w/ resources on 2009 DEBATE [21 May 2009]
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_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
Kaiser Family Foundation Launches a Health Reform Gateway Page With New Resources on the 2009 Debate [21 May 2009]
HEALTH REFORM GATEWAY
http://healthreform.kff.org/
As part of the gateway page, the Foundation unveiled some new resources:
* An interactive tool for comparing major health care reform proposals, including President Obama's Principles for Health Reform and congressional proposals from Senator Baucus, the Senate Finance Committee, Senators Wyden and Bennett, and Representatives Conyers, Dingell, and Stark. The side-by-side allows users to choose which proposals and characteristics to compare, including coverage, cost containment and financing. The side-by-side will be regularly updated to reflect changes in the proposals and to incorporate major new proposals.
* A new, interactive Web-based timeline that chronicles key events and noteworthy activities in health reform from the early 1900s through today.
* A series of Explaining Health Care Reform Briefs providing an overview of key topics and concepts being discussed in health reform efforts. The initial three Briefs explore "what is health insurance", "what is an employer pay or play requirement", and "what are health insurance exchanges".
* A glossary providing simple, straightforward definitions of key terms to assist in understanding the concepts included in health reform proposals.
The new gateway page will serve as a hub for original content produced by Kaiser on health reform. The page will host our Webcasts of newsmaker briefings with key policymakers, including today's session with Senator Max Baucus, chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance; testimony by Kaiser experts before Congress on health reform; columns from Kaiser president Drew Altman about health reform topics; Foundation research and analysis -- everything from basic fact sheets and issue briefs to in-depth studies and reports; Kaiser's public opinion research related to health reform, including the ongoing Kaiser Health Tracking Poll; videos about reform-related topics and Webcasts of Kaiser briefings; relevant news headlines from Kaiser Health Policy Report produced by Kaiser Health News; and a calendar listing of congressional and White House events related to the reform debate.
______________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
Kaiser Family Foundation Launches a Health Reform Gateway Page With New Resources on the 2009 Debate [21 May 2009]
HEALTH REFORM GATEWAY
http://healthreform.kff.org/
As part of the gateway page, the Foundation unveiled some new resources:
* An interactive tool for comparing major health care reform proposals, including President Obama's Principles for Health Reform and congressional proposals from Senator Baucus, the Senate Finance Committee, Senators Wyden and Bennett, and Representatives Conyers, Dingell, and Stark. The side-by-side allows users to choose which proposals and characteristics to compare, including coverage, cost containment and financing. The side-by-side will be regularly updated to reflect changes in the proposals and to incorporate major new proposals.
* A new, interactive Web-based timeline that chronicles key events and noteworthy activities in health reform from the early 1900s through today.
* A series of Explaining Health Care Reform Briefs providing an overview of key topics and concepts being discussed in health reform efforts. The initial three Briefs explore "what is health insurance", "what is an employer pay or play requirement", and "what are health insurance exchanges".
* A glossary providing simple, straightforward definitions of key terms to assist in understanding the concepts included in health reform proposals.
The new gateway page will serve as a hub for original content produced by Kaiser on health reform. The page will host our Webcasts of newsmaker briefings with key policymakers, including today's session with Senator Max Baucus, chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance; testimony by Kaiser experts before Congress on health reform; columns from Kaiser president Drew Altman about health reform topics; Foundation research and analysis -- everything from basic fact sheets and issue briefs to in-depth studies and reports; Kaiser's public opinion research related to health reform, including the ongoing Kaiser Health Tracking Poll; videos about reform-related topics and Webcasts of Kaiser briefings; relevant news headlines from Kaiser Health Policy Report produced by Kaiser Health News; and a calendar listing of congressional and White House events related to the reform debate.
______________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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# posted by SBasefsky : 9:41 AM
[IWS] ILR Press: STAGED ACTION: SIX PLAYS from the AMERICAN WORKERS' THEATRE [2009]
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press)
STAGED ACTION: Six Plays from the American Workers' Theatre
Lee Papa (Editor)
http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=5344
$21.95s paper
288 pages, 6 x 9
ISBN: 978-0-8014-7523-8 Quantity
$65.00x cloth
288 pages, 6 x 9
ISBN: 978-0-8014-4688-7 Quantity
With this anthology of six plays, Lee Papa reintroduces readers and performers to a largely forgotten American theatrical genre from the 1920s and 1930s, the workers' theatre movement. In an introduction that gives background on the workers' theatre movement and traces its influence on American drama, from David Mamet and August Wilson to the work of Anna Deavere Smith and Vermont's Bread and Puppet Theatre, Papa explains the criteria for his selection of plays. Papa's section introductions provide historical, cultural, and literary context for each of the plays.
The first two plays in the anthology-Processional by John Howard Lawson and Upton Sinclair's Singing Jailbirds-reflect the large-scale arrests of strikers and union organizers during and after World War I. The next two plays were produced at labor colleges. Bonchi Friedman's 1926 play The Miners combines expressionism and realism in a drama about a violent strike that has an unusual female union leader as its hero. In Mill Shadows by Tom Tippett, a town changes from a simple industrial village into a place of rebellion and eventually a union community. The last two plays are representative of those produced by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. In contrast to Irwin Swerdlow's one-act agitprop In Union There Is Strength, the musical revue Pins and Needles-until Oklahoma the longest-running musical on Broadway-is a collection of satirical sketches that parodies workers' theatre while simultaneously taking on serious issues like the treatment of blue- and white-collar workers and the rise of fascism overseas.
Reviews
"The plays in Staged Action are a reminder of the high stakes of labor organizing in an era when the violent suppression of unions was commonplace. Five of the six plays are haunted by death and guns. The Ku Klux Klan shows up in some of these works, too, as menace or as grotesque comic relief or both. The plays are also full of song; it is the glue that binds together the communities represented onstage and instill hope in the characters that inhabit them. . . . Staged Action . . . . rescues a valuable part of the cultural history of the left. It suggests that when our writers and artists with a popular audience do wake once againafter a three-decade slumberto the drama of labor and its struggles to organize in the face of powerful force, there are resources from which they may draw inspiration."Richard Byrne, The American Prospect, May 2009
"These plays are not only an important part of our theater history but also will have a lot to say to us today. The war between employers and those they employ, the exploiters and the exploited, will last as long as economies are dominated by private capital. But the stories are personal, humane and heroic, the essence of good drama. As our economic difficulties increase, what are the chances of a new wave of writers defining today's struggles?"Ken Loach
"In Staged Action, Lee Papa is addressing an area of theater history that is woefully neglected and unrepresented in academic literature. He has done a true service for the general public as well as students of theater by giving us access to these plays."-Mark Plesent, Working Theater
"This collection should be a stimulus to action by those who would use drama as a means to help working people come to grips with today's devastations, so reminiscent of those of the 1930s when these plays were performed."George C. Stoney, New York University
About the Author
Lee Papa is Assistant Professor of Drama Studies in the Department of English at the College of Staten Island/CUNY.
______________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press)
STAGED ACTION: Six Plays from the American Workers' Theatre
Lee Papa (Editor)
http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=5344
$21.95s paper
288 pages, 6 x 9
ISBN: 978-0-8014-7523-8 Quantity
$65.00x cloth
288 pages, 6 x 9
ISBN: 978-0-8014-4688-7 Quantity
With this anthology of six plays, Lee Papa reintroduces readers and performers to a largely forgotten American theatrical genre from the 1920s and 1930s, the workers' theatre movement. In an introduction that gives background on the workers' theatre movement and traces its influence on American drama, from David Mamet and August Wilson to the work of Anna Deavere Smith and Vermont's Bread and Puppet Theatre, Papa explains the criteria for his selection of plays. Papa's section introductions provide historical, cultural, and literary context for each of the plays.
The first two plays in the anthology-Processional by John Howard Lawson and Upton Sinclair's Singing Jailbirds-reflect the large-scale arrests of strikers and union organizers during and after World War I. The next two plays were produced at labor colleges. Bonchi Friedman's 1926 play The Miners combines expressionism and realism in a drama about a violent strike that has an unusual female union leader as its hero. In Mill Shadows by Tom Tippett, a town changes from a simple industrial village into a place of rebellion and eventually a union community. The last two plays are representative of those produced by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. In contrast to Irwin Swerdlow's one-act agitprop In Union There Is Strength, the musical revue Pins and Needles-until Oklahoma the longest-running musical on Broadway-is a collection of satirical sketches that parodies workers' theatre while simultaneously taking on serious issues like the treatment of blue- and white-collar workers and the rise of fascism overseas.
Reviews
"The plays in Staged Action are a reminder of the high stakes of labor organizing in an era when the violent suppression of unions was commonplace. Five of the six plays are haunted by death and guns. The Ku Klux Klan shows up in some of these works, too, as menace or as grotesque comic relief or both. The plays are also full of song; it is the glue that binds together the communities represented onstage and instill hope in the characters that inhabit them. . . . Staged Action . . . . rescues a valuable part of the cultural history of the left. It suggests that when our writers and artists with a popular audience do wake once againafter a three-decade slumberto the drama of labor and its struggles to organize in the face of powerful force, there are resources from which they may draw inspiration."Richard Byrne, The American Prospect, May 2009
"These plays are not only an important part of our theater history but also will have a lot to say to us today. The war between employers and those they employ, the exploiters and the exploited, will last as long as economies are dominated by private capital. But the stories are personal, humane and heroic, the essence of good drama. As our economic difficulties increase, what are the chances of a new wave of writers defining today's struggles?"Ken Loach
"In Staged Action, Lee Papa is addressing an area of theater history that is woefully neglected and unrepresented in academic literature. He has done a true service for the general public as well as students of theater by giving us access to these plays."-Mark Plesent, Working Theater
"This collection should be a stimulus to action by those who would use drama as a means to help working people come to grips with today's devastations, so reminiscent of those of the 1930s when these plays were performed."George C. Stoney, New York University
About the Author
Lee Papa is Assistant Professor of Drama Studies in the Department of English at the College of Staten Island/CUNY.
______________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
****************************************
# posted by SBasefsky : 9:05 AM
[IWS] EEOC Sues UNITED AIRLINES for DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION [4 June 2009]
IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
Press Release
UNITED AIRLINES SUED FOR DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION [4 June 2009]
EEOC Says Airline Failed to Provide Reasonable Accommodations for Disabled Workers
http://www.eeoc.gov/press/6-4-09.html
SAN FRANCISCO The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today sued Chicago-based global air carrier United Airlines for discriminating against a class of employees with disabilities by failing to provide job transfers to vacant positions, despite their qualifications, as a reasonable accommodation.
Lead class member Joe Boswell worked as an airline mechanic for United at the San Francisco Airport for over a decade before being diagnosed with a brain tumor, causing him to take leave and seek medical treatment. When Boswell returned to work at United, he could not be accommodated in his position as a mechanic, so he applied for a number of vacant positions for which he was qualified.
The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations for employees with disabilities. Under the statute, reasonable accommodations specifically include reassignment to a vacant position. However, instead of providing such an accommodation to Boswell, the EEOC says United violated the ADA by rejecting him for all the positions he had applied for, even though he was qualified for those jobs. Boswell was eventually placed on extended, involuntary leave by United until he retired late last year.
"The EEOC is focused on eliminating widespread disability discrimination in employment wherever we find it," said EEOC Acting Chairman Stuart J. Ishimaru. "Employers in every industry should know that their failure to comply with the ADA's reasonable accommodation requirement will have legal consequences."
Boswell said, "It made me feel useless to be rejected for job after job when I knew I was qualified to do the work I was applying for. United made it clear that they didn't want to deal with me after I became disabled. I wanted to work, but they didn't care."
The EEOC says in the litigation that all of the class members shared similar experiences as Boswell: they became disabled during their employment with United, could not be accommodated in their current position, and were rejected by United for a vacant position for which they qualified. Other claimants were food service workers, airplane maintenance workers, ramp workers, flight attendants, and customer service representatives.
"We anticipate that numerous employees at United locations nationwide may have a claim in this systemic case," said EEOC San Francisco Regional Attorney William Tamayo. "The ADA clearly requires employers to make a reasonable accommodation when an employee can no longer perform the original job because of a disability. This requires placing disabled employees in vacant positions for which they qualify, rather than forcing them to go through an application process similar to an external applicant who never worked at the company."
The EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement (EEOC v. United Airlines, Civil No. 09-2469-PJH). The suit seeks monetary damages on behalf of the affected class of employees, a court order to require the airline to change its policies to comply with the ADA, and ensuring the class members are reassigned to work in vacant jobs for which they are qualified.
EEOC San Francisco District Director Michael Baldonado noted, "The EEOC investigation found that Boswell's treatment was the rule, not the exception, at United Airlines. Employees with disabilities were placed on long-term leaves of absence and/or terminated despite the fact that they were willing, qualified and able to work. Such actions ignore the language and spirit of the ADA. Employees with disabilities can remain productive members of the work force, especially if employers fully comply with their duty under the law to provide reasonable accommodations."
According to the company web site, United Airlines has almost 50,000 employees in every U.S. state and in many countries around the world. The air carrier operates air travel hubs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Chicago and Washington, D.C. United is one of the largest international carriers based in the United States.
During Fiscal Year 2008, disability discrimination charge filings with the EEOC nationwide rose to 19,453 -- an increase of 10 percent from the prior fiscal year and the highest level in 14 years.
______________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
Press Release
UNITED AIRLINES SUED FOR DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION [4 June 2009]
EEOC Says Airline Failed to Provide Reasonable Accommodations for Disabled Workers
http://www.eeoc.gov/press/6-4-09.html
SAN FRANCISCO The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today sued Chicago-based global air carrier United Airlines for discriminating against a class of employees with disabilities by failing to provide job transfers to vacant positions, despite their qualifications, as a reasonable accommodation.
Lead class member Joe Boswell worked as an airline mechanic for United at the San Francisco Airport for over a decade before being diagnosed with a brain tumor, causing him to take leave and seek medical treatment. When Boswell returned to work at United, he could not be accommodated in his position as a mechanic, so he applied for a number of vacant positions for which he was qualified.
The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations for employees with disabilities. Under the statute, reasonable accommodations specifically include reassignment to a vacant position. However, instead of providing such an accommodation to Boswell, the EEOC says United violated the ADA by rejecting him for all the positions he had applied for, even though he was qualified for those jobs. Boswell was eventually placed on extended, involuntary leave by United until he retired late last year.
"The EEOC is focused on eliminating widespread disability discrimination in employment wherever we find it," said EEOC Acting Chairman Stuart J. Ishimaru. "Employers in every industry should know that their failure to comply with the ADA's reasonable accommodation requirement will have legal consequences."
Boswell said, "It made me feel useless to be rejected for job after job when I knew I was qualified to do the work I was applying for. United made it clear that they didn't want to deal with me after I became disabled. I wanted to work, but they didn't care."
The EEOC says in the litigation that all of the class members shared similar experiences as Boswell: they became disabled during their employment with United, could not be accommodated in their current position, and were rejected by United for a vacant position for which they qualified. Other claimants were food service workers, airplane maintenance workers, ramp workers, flight attendants, and customer service representatives.
"We anticipate that numerous employees at United locations nationwide may have a claim in this systemic case," said EEOC San Francisco Regional Attorney William Tamayo. "The ADA clearly requires employers to make a reasonable accommodation when an employee can no longer perform the original job because of a disability. This requires placing disabled employees in vacant positions for which they qualify, rather than forcing them to go through an application process similar to an external applicant who never worked at the company."
The EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement (EEOC v. United Airlines, Civil No. 09-2469-PJH). The suit seeks monetary damages on behalf of the affected class of employees, a court order to require the airline to change its policies to comply with the ADA, and ensuring the class members are reassigned to work in vacant jobs for which they are qualified.
EEOC San Francisco District Director Michael Baldonado noted, "The EEOC investigation found that Boswell's treatment was the rule, not the exception, at United Airlines. Employees with disabilities were placed on long-term leaves of absence and/or terminated despite the fact that they were willing, qualified and able to work. Such actions ignore the language and spirit of the ADA. Employees with disabilities can remain productive members of the work force, especially if employers fully comply with their duty under the law to provide reasonable accommodations."
According to the company web site, United Airlines has almost 50,000 employees in every U.S. state and in many countries around the world. The air carrier operates air travel hubs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Chicago and Washington, D.C. United is one of the largest international carriers based in the United States.
During Fiscal Year 2008, disability discrimination charge filings with the EEOC nationwide rose to 19,453 -- an increase of 10 percent from the prior fiscal year and the highest level in 14 years.
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[IWS] BLS: THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION: MAY 2009 [5 June 2009]
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_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION: MAY 2009 [5 June 2009]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf
[full-text, 29 pages]
and
Supplemental Files Table of Contents
http://www.bls.gov/web/empsit.supp.toc.htm
Nonfarm payroll employment fell by 345,000 in May, about half the
average monthly decline for the prior 6 months, the Bureau of Labor
Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. The unem-
ployment rate continued to rise, increasing from 8.9 to 9.4 percent.
Steep job losses continued in manufacturing, while declines moderated
in construction and several service-providing industries.
Unemployment (Household Survey Data)
The number of unemployed persons increased by 787,000 to 14.5 million
in May, and the unemployment rate rose to 9.4 percent. Since the start
of the recession in December 2007, the number of unemployed persons has
risen by 7.0 million, and the unemployment rate has grown by 4.5 percent-
age points. (See table A-1.)
Unemployment rates rose in May for adult men (9.8 percent), adult
women (7.5 percent), whites (8.6 percent), and Hispanics (12.7 percent).
The jobless rates for teenagers (22.7 percent) and blacks (14.9 percent)
were little changed over the month. The unemployment rate for Asians was
6.7 percent in May, not seasonally adjusted, up from 3.8 percent a year
earlier. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.)
Among the unemployed, the number of job losers and persons who completed
temporary jobs rose by 732,000 in May to 9.5 million. This group has in-
creased by 5.8 million since the start of the recession. (See table A-8.)
The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more)
increased by 268,000 over the month to 3.9 million and has tripled since
the start of the recession. (See table A-9.)
AND MUCH MORE...including TABLES....
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_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION: MAY 2009 [5 June 2009]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf
[full-text, 29 pages]
and
Supplemental Files Table of Contents
http://www.bls.gov/web/empsit.supp.toc.htm
Nonfarm payroll employment fell by 345,000 in May, about half the
average monthly decline for the prior 6 months, the Bureau of Labor
Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. The unem-
ployment rate continued to rise, increasing from 8.9 to 9.4 percent.
Steep job losses continued in manufacturing, while declines moderated
in construction and several service-providing industries.
Unemployment (Household Survey Data)
The number of unemployed persons increased by 787,000 to 14.5 million
in May, and the unemployment rate rose to 9.4 percent. Since the start
of the recession in December 2007, the number of unemployed persons has
risen by 7.0 million, and the unemployment rate has grown by 4.5 percent-
age points. (See table A-1.)
Unemployment rates rose in May for adult men (9.8 percent), adult
women (7.5 percent), whites (8.6 percent), and Hispanics (12.7 percent).
The jobless rates for teenagers (22.7 percent) and blacks (14.9 percent)
were little changed over the month. The unemployment rate for Asians was
6.7 percent in May, not seasonally adjusted, up from 3.8 percent a year
earlier. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.)
Among the unemployed, the number of job losers and persons who completed
temporary jobs rose by 732,000 in May to 9.5 million. This group has in-
creased by 5.8 million since the start of the recession. (See table A-8.)
The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more)
increased by 268,000 over the month to 3.9 million and has tripled since
the start of the recession. (See table A-9.)
AND MUCH MORE...including TABLES....
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[IWS] Dublin Foundation: EUROPEAN & INTERNATIONAL FRAMEWORK AGREEMENTS: PRACTICAL EXPERIENCES & STRATEGIC APPROACHES [5 June 2009]
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________________________________________________________________________
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
European and international framework agreements: Practical experiences and strategic approaches [5 June 2009]
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef08102.htm
or
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2008/102/en/1/EF08102EN.pdf
[full-text, 108 pages]
Author: Telljohann, Volker; da Costa, Isabel; Müller, Torsten; Rehfeldt, Udo; Zimmer, Reingard
Summary: Transnational Framework Agreements are a new industrial relations instrument that encourages the recognition of social partnership across national borders and could lead to new forms of social regulation at global level. The rationale for taking the initiative to negotiate such agreements can be traced back to the effects of the globalisation of production structures and human resource strategies. This report explores the recent phenomenon of transnational agreements, including both international agreements which have a global scope of application, and European agreements which have a more regional scope. < http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef081021.htm > An executive summary is available
CONTENTS
Foreword v
Executive summary 1
Introduction 5
Defining IFAs 5
Content of IFAs 6
Actors and motives 7
New dynamism in European and global industrial relations 8
Research objectives and methodology 8
1 Conceptual approaches to transnational framework agreements 11
Convergence debate 11
From convergence to articulation 13
2 International collective bargaining at company level: A brief history 15
Creation of world councils 15
European route to transnational collective bargaining at company level 18
3 Content of transnational framework agreements 21
Quantitative overview 21
Main characteristics of European agreements 23
Qualitative analysis of IFAs 29
4 Current strategies of the social partners 41
Economic and political framework and social partners' perception of IFAs 41
Social partners' IFA-related strategies 45
Regional framework agreements at European level 56
Strategies of European Industry Federations 58
5 IFAs: New dynamism in European and global industrial relations? 63
IFAs in the context of advanced company-level industrial relations 64
Contribution to the internationalisation of industrial relations 70
Europeanisation of industrial relations 72
Concluding remarks 81
6 Conclusions 83
Bibliography 87
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New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
****************************************
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
European and international framework agreements: Practical experiences and strategic approaches [5 June 2009]
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef08102.htm
or
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2008/102/en/1/EF08102EN.pdf
[full-text, 108 pages]
Author: Telljohann, Volker; da Costa, Isabel; Müller, Torsten; Rehfeldt, Udo; Zimmer, Reingard
Summary: Transnational Framework Agreements are a new industrial relations instrument that encourages the recognition of social partnership across national borders and could lead to new forms of social regulation at global level. The rationale for taking the initiative to negotiate such agreements can be traced back to the effects of the globalisation of production structures and human resource strategies. This report explores the recent phenomenon of transnational agreements, including both international agreements which have a global scope of application, and European agreements which have a more regional scope. < http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef081021.htm > An executive summary is available
CONTENTS
Foreword v
Executive summary 1
Introduction 5
Defining IFAs 5
Content of IFAs 6
Actors and motives 7
New dynamism in European and global industrial relations 8
Research objectives and methodology 8
1 Conceptual approaches to transnational framework agreements 11
Convergence debate 11
From convergence to articulation 13
2 International collective bargaining at company level: A brief history 15
Creation of world councils 15
European route to transnational collective bargaining at company level 18
3 Content of transnational framework agreements 21
Quantitative overview 21
Main characteristics of European agreements 23
Qualitative analysis of IFAs 29
4 Current strategies of the social partners 41
Economic and political framework and social partners' perception of IFAs 41
Social partners' IFA-related strategies 45
Regional framework agreements at European level 56
Strategies of European Industry Federations 58
5 IFAs: New dynamism in European and global industrial relations? 63
IFAs in the context of advanced company-level industrial relations 64
Contribution to the internationalisation of industrial relations 70
Europeanisation of industrial relations 72
Concluding remarks 81
6 Conclusions 83
Bibliography 87
______________________________
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Thursday, June 04, 2009
Tweet[IWS] Dublin Foundation: DIVERSITY POLICY CASE STUDIES 2009 in EMPLOYMENT and SERVICE PROVISION [as of 4 June 2009]
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_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
DIVERSITY POLICY in EMPLOYMENT and SERVICE PROVISION -- CASE STUDIES 2009
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/bysubject/listdiversity2009.htm
includes the following as of 4 June 2009
Diversity policy in employment and service provision - Case study: Stuttgart, Germany
Today, people from over 170 countries live in Stuttgart: a quarter of the population are foreigners, 38% of the population have a migration background. In 2001, the Stuttgart city council adopted a new comprehensive Pact for Integration between the public sector, the private sector and civil society. Hence, this coalition consists of partners committed to integration and aligned in network structures. The Pact for Integration explicitly states that people with a migration background are seen as a benefit for the city as a whole: the municipal integration policy has been re-orientated towards a resource approach. The pact formulates three goals for municipal integration policy: 1. participation and equal opportunities for everyone, 2. social cohesion, and 3. the capitalisation of cultural diversity to extend competences within the international municipal society.
Diversity policy in employment and service provision - Case study: Copenhagen, Denmark
Denmark is a welfare state in a rather pronounced form. It has inclusive policies, not only for its citizens but also for all legal residents. Equality and equal treatment are keywords in the political discourse. The city of Copenhagen follows the national model to a great extent, but also deviates from the national model in framing the integration process as a mutual process and naming diversity as a potential asset, by stressing less the mandatory nature of measures and more the engagement of various actors in society. Diversity as personnel policy has a longer history in Copenhagen, going back at least to 1998. It has always been broadly defined, including diversity of gender, ethnicity, disability and sexual orientation. The major focus seems to lie in recruitment, which corroborates the main political motivation, namely that the work force of the city should reflect its demographic composition.
Diversity policy in employment and service provision - Case study: Terrassa, Spain
The city of Terrassa has been confronted with a recent influx of immigrants in the last eight to 10 years, and has started to build up services and to adjust the existing service provision to these new groups. The general assumption is that specific services are only needed to bridge the period until the immigrants can fully participate and use in the mainstream institutions.
Diversity policy in employment and service provision - Case study: Vienna, Austria
Vienna's integration policy has traditionally been characterised by efforts to overcome conflicts, the development of municipal strategies for problem areas as well as by the promotion of social integration of foreigners. Innovative measures and 'integration' are firmly established as both objectives and points of reference of urban policy. Diversity policy was instituted in Vienna in 2002. People with a migration background are no longer considered primarily as a target group for social-political measures, but rather, quite simply, as Viennese citizens and a normal part of the population. The initiator of Vienna's diversity policy is the Municipal Department for Integration and Diversity whose ultimate objective is to strengthen intercultural competencies for improved diversity management.
Diversity policy in employment and service provision - Case study: Brescia, Italy
Because of its flourishing economy, Brescia is one of the Italian cities which has attracted a large number of migrants, especially in the last decade. In the field of employment, people with a migration background are employed by the city only within the office providing services to the migrant population the Office of Integration and Citizenship. However, no specific policy is devised to improve the access of people with a migration background to jobs in the local administration. The main reasons for this are that immigration is a young phenomenon in Italian cities, and the requirement to hold an EU passport to be allowed to work in the public sector.
Diversity policy in employment and service provision - Case study: Turin, Italy
Turin is one of the Italian cities that has attracted a large number of migrants, especially in the past decade. As is often the case, labour migration has been followed by the settlement of migrant families, and the migrant population has developed significant needs in all spheres of economic and social life. In addition, in recent years, the city has hosted a growing number of refugees and asylum seekers. The lack of a comprehensive national policy for the integration of migrants into Italian society has meant that Turin has engaged in the planning and implementation of many initiatives and practices aimed at fostering the process of migrant and refugee integration in a local context. Thanks to the efforts of the local administration and the social partners, Turin shows a high commitment to receiving newcomers and giving them access to national and local welfare systems.
Diversity policy in employment and service provision - Case study: Arnsberg, Germany
Altogether, in Arnsberg, the percentage of people with a migration background is about 15%. As in most German cities, migrant integration has primarily taken place by opening up the core institutions, such as the education system and the labour market, and by including the migrants in the national welfare system. Within the last decade, the municipality has restructured its administration by bundling all migration and integration-related responsibilities into one single office, and has implemented a comprehensive integration concept that regards diversity as a benefit to the city as a whole.
Diversity policy in employment and service provision - Case study: Mataró, Spain
In this overview, the city of Mataró shows some specific characteristics when compared with other CLIP cities. Mataró is dealing with a large influx of migrants that has developed over the last 10 years; it has to deal with a considerable number of irregular migrants and consequently many immigrants are burdened with legal problems that they have to solve before they worry about integration. The administration has made a great effort to adjust its general service provision, to train its staff in multicultural issues and to establish specific services where necessary.
Diversity policy in employment and service provision - Case study: Turku, Finland
Immigration in Finland and in Turku is relatively new. It has been predominantly supply-driven (refugees, returnees and family related migration) and is now gradually changing to more demand-driven migration. Policy reactions both at the national and local level have been partial and targeted mainly at the refugee category. Migration and integration policies are in an early phase, primarily reacting to specific vulnerable categories of immigrants. Specific policies relating to reception of refugees and returnees have been initiated at the national level first. Local authorities were then urged to develop integration programmes for migrants.
Diversity policy in employment and service provision - Case study: Tallinn, Estonia
Tallinn's population composition differs significantly from that of Western European cities in that Russian-speaking residents make up about half of its population. Only in the 1990s did the question of the integration of residents with Russian ethnicity into Estonian society arise. In 2000, the state programme 'Integration into Estonian Society 20002007' was adopted; which was followed by the 'Integration Strategy 20082013'. Both the state programme and the Integration Strategy emphasise Estonian language proficiency for 'Russians'. In the end of 2007, the city of Tallinn started to develop its own municipal integration policy intended to ensure equal opportunities for all. A diversity approach in personnel policy has not been implemented yet. In terms of service provision, by contrast, one should highlight a specific service: in order to facilitate access to municipal services by residents with Russian ethnicity, the city provides every official publication and every service in Russian as well in Estonian.
Diversity policy in employment and service provision - Case study: Antwerp, Belgium
Antwerp is the largest city in Flanders and its population comprises around 13% foreigners. Yet a quarter of the inhabitants have a migration background and they represent 30% of the working population. Until recently, the diversity policy adopted by the city focused on specific target groups people with a migration background was one of them. It was a categorial diversity policy. And specific departments were in charge to stimulate and support the policy through specific measures and actions with respect to each specific target group. The Integration Service and in particular the IS diversity consultants developed intensive contacts with some other services such as the Urban Poverty Department. The main challenges remain the language barriers and the recruitment procedures of the city.
Diversity policy in employment and service provision - Case study: Frankfurt, Germany
Today, foreigners from 175 nations live in Frankfurt and make up one quarter of its population. The proportion with a migration background is 38% of the total population of the city. Frankfurt saw the necessity of integration and diversity policies quite early on and created a Department of Integration with an affiliated Office for Multicultural Affairs in 1989. These are engaged in fostering the integration of migrants and make efforts to change the municipality in order to better meet the demands of a heterogeneous population, as far as employment policy and provision of services are concerned.
Services and personnel policy integration and diversity in municipalities (Conference report)
On November 18 2008, the City of Frankfurt, a CLIP network member from the start, the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation and Eurofound jointly organised and hosted a conference on 'Integration und Diversity in Kommunen'. In this conference, findings from the second module (on diversity policy) have been discussed among experts from German-speaking cities in Europe. The conference has been supported by the Robert-Bosch-Foundation and about 100 experts from Austrian, German and Swiss cities and related institutions as well as representatives from research institutes, unions and local NGO's actively participated in the conference.
______________________________
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_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
DIVERSITY POLICY in EMPLOYMENT and SERVICE PROVISION -- CASE STUDIES 2009
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/bysubject/listdiversity2009.htm
includes the following as of 4 June 2009
Diversity policy in employment and service provision - Case study: Stuttgart, Germany
Today, people from over 170 countries live in Stuttgart: a quarter of the population are foreigners, 38% of the population have a migration background. In 2001, the Stuttgart city council adopted a new comprehensive Pact for Integration between the public sector, the private sector and civil society. Hence, this coalition consists of partners committed to integration and aligned in network structures. The Pact for Integration explicitly states that people with a migration background are seen as a benefit for the city as a whole: the municipal integration policy has been re-orientated towards a resource approach. The pact formulates three goals for municipal integration policy: 1. participation and equal opportunities for everyone, 2. social cohesion, and 3. the capitalisation of cultural diversity to extend competences within the international municipal society.
Denmark is a welfare state in a rather pronounced form. It has inclusive policies, not only for its citizens but also for all legal residents. Equality and equal treatment are keywords in the political discourse. The city of Copenhagen follows the national model to a great extent, but also deviates from the national model in framing the integration process as a mutual process and naming diversity as a potential asset, by stressing less the mandatory nature of measures and more the engagement of various actors in society. Diversity as personnel policy has a longer history in Copenhagen, going back at least to 1998. It has always been broadly defined, including diversity of gender, ethnicity, disability and sexual orientation. The major focus seems to lie in recruitment, which corroborates the main political motivation, namely that the work force of the city should reflect its demographic composition.
The city of Terrassa has been confronted with a recent influx of immigrants in the last eight to 10 years, and has started to build up services and to adjust the existing service provision to these new groups. The general assumption is that specific services are only needed to bridge the period until the immigrants can fully participate and use in the mainstream institutions.
Vienna's integration policy has traditionally been characterised by efforts to overcome conflicts, the development of municipal strategies for problem areas as well as by the promotion of social integration of foreigners. Innovative measures and 'integration' are firmly established as both objectives and points of reference of urban policy. Diversity policy was instituted in Vienna in 2002. People with a migration background are no longer considered primarily as a target group for social-political measures, but rather, quite simply, as Viennese citizens and a normal part of the population. The initiator of Vienna's diversity policy is the Municipal Department for Integration and Diversity whose ultimate objective is to strengthen intercultural competencies for improved diversity management.
Because of its flourishing economy, Brescia is one of the Italian cities which has attracted a large number of migrants, especially in the last decade. In the field of employment, people with a migration background are employed by the city only within the office providing services to the migrant population the Office of Integration and Citizenship. However, no specific policy is devised to improve the access of people with a migration background to jobs in the local administration. The main reasons for this are that immigration is a young phenomenon in Italian cities, and the requirement to hold an EU passport to be allowed to work in the public sector.
Turin is one of the Italian cities that has attracted a large number of migrants, especially in the past decade. As is often the case, labour migration has been followed by the settlement of migrant families, and the migrant population has developed significant needs in all spheres of economic and social life. In addition, in recent years, the city has hosted a growing number of refugees and asylum seekers. The lack of a comprehensive national policy for the integration of migrants into Italian society has meant that Turin has engaged in the planning and implementation of many initiatives and practices aimed at fostering the process of migrant and refugee integration in a local context. Thanks to the efforts of the local administration and the social partners, Turin shows a high commitment to receiving newcomers and giving them access to national and local welfare systems.
Altogether, in Arnsberg, the percentage of people with a migration background is about 15%. As in most German cities, migrant integration has primarily taken place by opening up the core institutions, such as the education system and the labour market, and by including the migrants in the national welfare system. Within the last decade, the municipality has restructured its administration by bundling all migration and integration-related responsibilities into one single office, and has implemented a comprehensive integration concept that regards diversity as a benefit to the city as a whole.
In this overview, the city of Mataró shows some specific characteristics when compared with other CLIP cities. Mataró is dealing with a large influx of migrants that has developed over the last 10 years; it has to deal with a considerable number of irregular migrants and consequently many immigrants are burdened with legal problems that they have to solve before they worry about integration. The administration has made a great effort to adjust its general service provision, to train its staff in multicultural issues and to establish specific services where necessary.
Immigration in Finland and in Turku is relatively new. It has been predominantly supply-driven (refugees, returnees and family related migration) and is now gradually changing to more demand-driven migration. Policy reactions both at the national and local level have been partial and targeted mainly at the refugee category. Migration and integration policies are in an early phase, primarily reacting to specific vulnerable categories of immigrants. Specific policies relating to reception of refugees and returnees have been initiated at the national level first. Local authorities were then urged to develop integration programmes for migrants.
Tallinn's population composition differs significantly from that of Western European cities in that Russian-speaking residents make up about half of its population. Only in the 1990s did the question of the integration of residents with Russian ethnicity into Estonian society arise. In 2000, the state programme 'Integration into Estonian Society 20002007' was adopted; which was followed by the 'Integration Strategy 20082013'. Both the state programme and the Integration Strategy emphasise Estonian language proficiency for 'Russians'. In the end of 2007, the city of Tallinn started to develop its own municipal integration policy intended to ensure equal opportunities for all. A diversity approach in personnel policy has not been implemented yet. In terms of service provision, by contrast, one should highlight a specific service: in order to facilitate access to municipal services by residents with Russian ethnicity, the city provides every official publication and every service in Russian as well in Estonian.
Antwerp is the largest city in Flanders and its population comprises around 13% foreigners. Yet a quarter of the inhabitants have a migration background and they represent 30% of the working population. Until recently, the diversity policy adopted by the city focused on specific target groups people with a migration background was one of them. It was a categorial diversity policy. And specific departments were in charge to stimulate and support the policy through specific measures and actions with respect to each specific target group. The Integration Service and in particular the IS diversity consultants developed intensive contacts with some other services such as the Urban Poverty Department. The main challenges remain the language barriers and the recruitment procedures of the city.
Today, foreigners from 175 nations live in Frankfurt and make up one quarter of its population. The proportion with a migration background is 38% of the total population of the city. Frankfurt saw the necessity of integration and diversity policies quite early on and created a Department of Integration with an affiliated Office for Multicultural Affairs in 1989. These are engaged in fostering the integration of migrants and make efforts to change the municipality in order to better meet the demands of a heterogeneous population, as far as employment policy and provision of services are concerned.
On November 18 2008, the City of Frankfurt, a CLIP network member from the start, the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation and Eurofound jointly organised and hosted a conference on 'Integration und Diversity in Kommunen'. In this conference, findings from the second module (on diversity policy) have been discussed among experts from German-speaking cities in Europe. The conference has been supported by the Robert-Bosch-Foundation and about 100 experts from Austrian, German and Swiss cities and related institutions as well as representatives from research institutes, unions and local NGO's actively participated in the conference.
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[IWS] BEA: FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTORS' OUTLAYS TO ACQUIRE OR ESTABLISH U.S. BUSINESSES INCREASED IN 2008 [4 June 2009]
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Cornell University
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Foreign Direct Investors' Outlays to Acquire or Establish U.S. Businesses Increased in 2008 [4 June 2009]
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/fdi/2009/fdi08.htm
or
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/fdi/2009/pdf/fdi08.pdf
[full-text, 8 pages]
or
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/fdi/2009/xls/fdi08.xls
[spreadsheet]
Includes numerous TABLES & CHART.....
Outlays by foreign direct investors to acquire or establish U.S. businesses increased 3 percent in 2008, to $260.4 billion. Outlays in 2008 were the third-largest on record and the sixth consecutive increase since a falloff in outlays in 2001-2002.
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_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
Foreign Direct Investors' Outlays to Acquire or Establish U.S. Businesses Increased in 2008 [4 June 2009]
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/fdi/2009/fdi08.htm
or
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/fdi/2009/pdf/fdi08.pdf
[full-text, 8 pages]
or
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/fdi/2009/xls/fdi08.xls
[spreadsheet]
Includes numerous TABLES & CHART.....
Outlays by foreign direct investors to acquire or establish U.S. businesses increased 3 percent in 2008, to $260.4 billion. Outlays in 2008 were the third-largest on record and the sixth consecutive increase since a falloff in outlays in 2001-2002.
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[IWS] BLS: PRODUCTIVITY AND COSTS First Quarter 2009, Revised [4 June 2009]
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Cornell University
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New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
PRODUCTIVITY AND COSTS First Quarter 2009, Revised [4 June 2009]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/prod2.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/prod2.pdf
[full-text, 16 pages]
and
Supplemental Files Table of Contents
http://www.bls.gov/web/prod2.supp.toc.htm
The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of
Labor today reported revised productivity data--as measured by
output per hour of all persons--for the first quarter of 2009.
The revised seasonally adjusted annual rates of productivity
change in the first quarter were:
1.8 percent in the business sector and
1.6 percent in the nonfarm business sector.
In both sectors, the first-quarter productivity gains were greater
than the preliminary estimates reported on May 7, due solely to
revisions to output growth.
In manufacturing, the revised productivity changes in the
first quarter were:
-2.7 percent in manufacturing,
-10.4 percent in durable goods manufacturing, and
1.9 percent in nondurable goods manufacturing.
Manufacturing productivity in the first quarter of 2009 fell
at a slower rate than was reported on May 7. Output and hours in
manufacturing, which includes about 11 percent of U.S. business-
sector employment, tend to vary more from quarter to quarter than
data for the aggregate business and nonfarm business sectors.
First-quarter measures are summarized in table A and appear in
detail in tables 1 through 5.
The data sources and methods used in the preparation of the
manufacturing series differ from those used in preparing the
business and nonfarm business series, and these measures are not
directly comparable. Output measures for business and nonfarm
business are based on measures of gross domestic product prepared
by the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the U.S. Department of
Commerce. Quarterly output measures for manufacturing reflect
indexes of industrial production prepared by the Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System. See Technical Notes for
further information on data sources.
AND MORE...including TABLES....
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Cornell/ILR School
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Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
PRODUCTIVITY AND COSTS First Quarter 2009, Revised [4 June 2009]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/prod2.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/prod2.pdf
[full-text, 16 pages]
and
Supplemental Files Table of Contents
http://www.bls.gov/web/prod2.supp.toc.htm
The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of
Labor today reported revised productivity data--as measured by
output per hour of all persons--for the first quarter of 2009.
The revised seasonally adjusted annual rates of productivity
change in the first quarter were:
1.8 percent in the business sector and
1.6 percent in the nonfarm business sector.
In both sectors, the first-quarter productivity gains were greater
than the preliminary estimates reported on May 7, due solely to
revisions to output growth.
In manufacturing, the revised productivity changes in the
first quarter were:
-2.7 percent in manufacturing,
-10.4 percent in durable goods manufacturing, and
1.9 percent in nondurable goods manufacturing.
Manufacturing productivity in the first quarter of 2009 fell
at a slower rate than was reported on May 7. Output and hours in
manufacturing, which includes about 11 percent of U.S. business-
sector employment, tend to vary more from quarter to quarter than
data for the aggregate business and nonfarm business sectors.
First-quarter measures are summarized in table A and appear in
detail in tables 1 through 5.
The data sources and methods used in the preparation of the
manufacturing series differ from those used in preparing the
business and nonfarm business series, and these measures are not
directly comparable. Output measures for business and nonfarm
business are based on measures of gross domestic product prepared
by the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the U.S. Department of
Commerce. Quarterly output measures for manufacturing reflect
indexes of industrial production prepared by the Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System. See Technical Notes for
further information on data sources.
AND MORE...including TABLES....
______________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
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# posted by SBasefsky : 9:31 AM
[IWS] ILO: SOCIAL DIALOGUE IN TIMES OF CRISIS: FINDING BETTER SOLUTIONS [May 2009]
IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
International Labour Office (ILO)
Industrial and Employment Relations Department
DIALOGUE Working Paper No. 1
Social dialogue in times of crisis: Finding better solutions [May 2009]
Ludek Rychly
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/dialogue/ifpdial/downloads/papers/crisis.pdf
[full-text, 76 pages]
[excerpt from forward]
The current global financial and economic crisis presents a serious test for governments
and social partners throughout the world. Its consequences for both employers and
workers are heavy and require urgent measures which take into account the vital interests
of the population. In these critical circumstances, various forms of dialogue, from simple
exchange of information or consultations to full-fledged negotiations, are badly needed,
as these can contribute to better, more transparent and more efficient governance. More
than ever, mutual trust and cooperation are prerequisites for achieving effective, balanced
and viable policies.
We have learned from past experience that the important role of social dialogue
should never be taken for granted, not even in countries with old traditions of industrial
relations. Strong political will is required to use the existing instruments of dialogue
during crisis conditions, adapting them if necessary. At the national level, social dialogue
can be very useful in finding the necessary balance between macroeconomic stability,
employment growth and the protection of the most vulnerable sectors. At the enterprise
level, the compromises may be even more painful, as workers' jobs and wages are at
stake.
This paper has three objectives. First, it looks at past crises to identify lessons that
can be learned from industrial relations developments in different regions and varying
circumstances. Second, it describes the development of social dialogue in the early period
of the current crisis in order to inform the reader about the forms and content of crisisrelated
social dialogue in different parts of the world and to provide national examples.
Third, it suggests some policy options.
This paper was prepared with the intention of providing this information as early in
the crisis as possible. It is therefore based on relatively disparate sources, and many of the
findings and conclusions are, at this stage, only tentative and may be corrected by further
developments.
CONTENTS
Foreword......................................................................................................................... iii
Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 1
1. Past experience........................................................................................................... 1
1.1. The recession of the 1970s-80s in industrialized economies ........................... 1
1.2. The Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 .............................................................. 6
1.3. The economic recession in some African countries in the 1980s .................... 8
1.4. Economic crises in Latin America since the 1970s.......................................... 9
1.5. Economic challenges in Central Europe in the early 1990s........................... 11
2. Recent developments ............................................................................................... 12
2.1. Acceleration of national-level social dialogue ............................................... 12
2.2. Limited number of comprehensive tripartite agreements............................... 18
2.3. The crucial role of public policies supporting
crisis-related social dialogue .......................................................................... 19
2.4. Mixed picture of enterprise-level collective bargaining................................. 21
3. Conclusions and policy options ............................................................................... 25
3.1. General considerations ................................................................................... 25
3.2. Lessons from the past and the current crisis................................................... 26
3.3. Policy options................................................................................................. 27
Bibliography................................................................................................................... 29
Annex I. National-level cases, 2008-09 .................................................................... 33
Annex II. Enterprise-level cases, 2008-09 ................................................................ 45
______________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
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Cornell/ILR School
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New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
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****************************************
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
International Labour Office (ILO)
Industrial and Employment Relations Department
DIALOGUE Working Paper No. 1
Social dialogue in times of crisis: Finding better solutions [May 2009]
Ludek Rychly
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/dialogue/ifpdial/downloads/papers/crisis.pdf
[full-text, 76 pages]
[excerpt from forward]
The current global financial and economic crisis presents a serious test for governments
and social partners throughout the world. Its consequences for both employers and
workers are heavy and require urgent measures which take into account the vital interests
of the population. In these critical circumstances, various forms of dialogue, from simple
exchange of information or consultations to full-fledged negotiations, are badly needed,
as these can contribute to better, more transparent and more efficient governance. More
than ever, mutual trust and cooperation are prerequisites for achieving effective, balanced
and viable policies.
We have learned from past experience that the important role of social dialogue
should never be taken for granted, not even in countries with old traditions of industrial
relations. Strong political will is required to use the existing instruments of dialogue
during crisis conditions, adapting them if necessary. At the national level, social dialogue
can be very useful in finding the necessary balance between macroeconomic stability,
employment growth and the protection of the most vulnerable sectors. At the enterprise
level, the compromises may be even more painful, as workers' jobs and wages are at
stake.
This paper has three objectives. First, it looks at past crises to identify lessons that
can be learned from industrial relations developments in different regions and varying
circumstances. Second, it describes the development of social dialogue in the early period
of the current crisis in order to inform the reader about the forms and content of crisisrelated
social dialogue in different parts of the world and to provide national examples.
Third, it suggests some policy options.
This paper was prepared with the intention of providing this information as early in
the crisis as possible. It is therefore based on relatively disparate sources, and many of the
findings and conclusions are, at this stage, only tentative and may be corrected by further
developments.
CONTENTS
Foreword......................................................................................................................... iii
Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 1
1. Past experience........................................................................................................... 1
1.1. The recession of the 1970s-80s in industrialized economies ........................... 1
1.2. The Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 .............................................................. 6
1.3. The economic recession in some African countries in the 1980s .................... 8
1.4. Economic crises in Latin America since the 1970s.......................................... 9
1.5. Economic challenges in Central Europe in the early 1990s........................... 11
2. Recent developments ............................................................................................... 12
2.1. Acceleration of national-level social dialogue ............................................... 12
2.2. Limited number of comprehensive tripartite agreements............................... 18
2.3. The crucial role of public policies supporting
crisis-related social dialogue .......................................................................... 19
2.4. Mixed picture of enterprise-level collective bargaining................................. 21
3. Conclusions and policy options ............................................................................... 25
3.1. General considerations ................................................................................... 25
3.2. Lessons from the past and the current crisis................................................... 26
3.3. Policy options................................................................................................. 27
Bibliography................................................................................................................... 29
Annex I. National-level cases, 2008-09 .................................................................... 33
Annex II. Enterprise-level cases, 2008-09 ................................................................ 45
______________________________
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Cornell/ILR School
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Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Tweet[IWS] GM & CHRYSLER BANKRUPTCY DOCUMENTATION [2 June 2009]
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
USCOURTS.gov (Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts)
United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York
WHAT'S NEW
http://www.nysb.uscourts.gov/
Announcement
The United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York is pleased to announce a pilot project to make digital audio recordings of court proceedings relating to Chrysler LLC, 09-50002, and General Motors Corporation, 09-50026, publicly available online. The audio files are accessible through the Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system. Registration for PACER access may be obtained at www.pacer.psc.uscourts.gov
Please remember that these digital recordings are copies of court proceedings and are provided as a convenience to the public at the cost of $0.08 per audio file. In accordance with 28 U.S.C. § 753 (b) "no transcripts of the proceedings of the court shall be considered as official except those made from the records certified by the reporter or other individual designated to produce the record." A list of approved transcription companies can be found on the court's website.
Announcement
All documents in the General Motors Corporation bankruptcy case should be filed and viewed on http://ecf.nysb-mega.uscourts.gov/.
The lead case is: In re General Motors Corporation, 09-50026; parties filing documents (e.g., notices of appearance) should do so in the lead case only.
Additional case and claims filing information can be found on the General Motors page.
Petitions:
09-50026 General Motors Corporation
09-50027 Saturn, LLC
09-50028 Saturn Distribution Corporation
09-13558 Chevrolet-Saturn of Harlem, Inc.
Announcement
All documents in the Chrysler bankruptcy case should be filed and viewed on http://ecf.nysb-mega.uscourts.gov/.
The lead case is: In re Chrysler LLC, 09-50002; parties filing documents (e.g., notices of appearance) should do so in the lead case only.
Additional case and claims filing information can be found on the Chrysler page.
Petitions:
09-50000 Chrysler Realty Company LLC
09-50001 Peapod Mobility LLC
09-50002 Chrysler LLC
09-50003 Chrysler Aviation Inc.
09-50004 Chrysler Dutch Holding LLC
09-50005 Chrysler Dutch Investment LLC
09-50006 Chrysler Dutch Operating Group LLC
09-50007 Chrysler Institute of Engineering
09-50008 Chrysler International Corporation
09-50009 Chrysler International Limited, L.L.C.
09-50010 Chrysler International Services, S.A.
09-50011 Chrysler Motors LLC
09-50012 Chrysler Service Contracts Florida, Inc.
09-50013 Chrysler Service Contracts Inc.
09-50014 Chrysler Technologies Middle East Ltd.
09-50015 Chrysler Transport Inc.
09-50016 Chrysler Vans LLC
09-50017 DCC 929, Inc.
09-50018 Dealer Capital, Inc.
09-50019 Global Electric Motorcars, LLC
09-50020 NEV Mobile Service, LLC
09-50021 NEV Service, LLC
09-50022 TPF Asset, LLC
09-50023 TPF Note, LLC
09-50024 Utility Assets LLC
______________________________
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Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
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New York, NY 10016
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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USCOURTS.gov (Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts)
United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York
WHAT'S NEW
http://www.nysb.uscourts.gov/
Announcement
The United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York is pleased to announce a pilot project to make digital audio recordings of court proceedings relating to Chrysler LLC, 09-50002, and General Motors Corporation, 09-50026, publicly available online. The audio files are accessible through the Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system. Registration for PACER access may be obtained at www.pacer.psc.uscourts.gov
Please remember that these digital recordings are copies of court proceedings and are provided as a convenience to the public at the cost of $0.08 per audio file. In accordance with 28 U.S.C. § 753 (b) "no transcripts of the proceedings of the court shall be considered as official except those made from the records certified by the reporter or other individual designated to produce the record." A list of approved transcription companies can be found on the court's website.
Announcement
All documents in the General Motors Corporation bankruptcy case should be filed and viewed on http://ecf.nysb-mega.uscourts.gov/.
The lead case is: In re General Motors Corporation, 09-50026; parties filing documents (e.g., notices of appearance) should do so in the lead case only.
Additional case and claims filing information can be found on the General Motors page.
Petitions:
09-50026 General Motors Corporation
09-50027 Saturn, LLC
09-50028 Saturn Distribution Corporation
09-13558 Chevrolet-Saturn of Harlem, Inc.
Announcement
All documents in the Chrysler bankruptcy case should be filed and viewed on http://ecf.nysb-mega.uscourts.gov/.
The lead case is: In re Chrysler LLC, 09-50002; parties filing documents (e.g., notices of appearance) should do so in the lead case only.
Additional case and claims filing information can be found on the Chrysler page.
Petitions:
09-50000 Chrysler Realty Company LLC
09-50001 Peapod Mobility LLC
09-50002 Chrysler LLC
09-50003 Chrysler Aviation Inc.
09-50004 Chrysler Dutch Holding LLC
09-50005 Chrysler Dutch Investment LLC
09-50006 Chrysler Dutch Operating Group LLC
09-50007 Chrysler Institute of Engineering
09-50008 Chrysler International Corporation
09-50009 Chrysler International Limited, L.L.C.
09-50010 Chrysler International Services, S.A.
09-50011 Chrysler Motors LLC
09-50012 Chrysler Service Contracts Florida, Inc.
09-50013 Chrysler Service Contracts Inc.
09-50014 Chrysler Technologies Middle East Ltd.
09-50015 Chrysler Transport Inc.
09-50016 Chrysler Vans LLC
09-50017 DCC 929, Inc.
09-50018 Dealer Capital, Inc.
09-50019 Global Electric Motorcars, LLC
09-50020 NEV Mobile Service, LLC
09-50021 NEV Service, LLC
09-50022 TPF Asset, LLC
09-50023 TPF Note, LLC
09-50024 Utility Assets LLC
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This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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[IWS] ISDB: KEY SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATISTICS ON [ISLAMIC] MEMBER COUNTRIES [May 2009]
IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
Islamic Development Bank (ISDB)
ECONOMIC POLICY AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT
STATISTICAL MONOGRAPH N0. 29
KEY SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATISTICS ON IDB MEMBER COUNTRIES [May 2009]
http://www.isdb.org/irj/go/km/docs/documents/IDBDevelopments/Internet/English/IDB/CM/Publications/Statistical_Monograph/Monograph-2009.pdf
[full-text, 124 pages]
CONTENTS
Symbols, Acronyms and Abbreviations ..................................................................................................... vii
Data Sources ............................................................................................................................................. viii
Highlights ................................................................................................................................................. ix
PART I: DEMOGRAPHIC AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS
1.1 Population ................................................................................................................................... 3
1.2 Population Structure ..................................................................................................................... 4
1.3 Mortality Indicators ..................................................................................................................... 5
1.4 Vital Statistics .............................................................................................................................. 7
1.5 Education Indicators .................................................................................................................... 8
1.6 Health Expenditures .................................................................................................................... 9
1.7 Health Indicators .......................................................................................................................... 11
1.8a Poverty Indicators ........................................................................................................................ 12
1.8b Human Development Indicators .................................................................................................. 13
1.9 Information and Communication Technology Indicators ............................................................ 15
1.10 Science and Technology .............................................................................................................. 16
1.11 Employment Indicators ................................................................................................................ 17
1.12 Wage, Productivity and Competitiveness .................................................................................... 18
1.13 Environment Indicators ............................................................................................................... 19
1.14 Land Use Indicators ..................................................................................................................... 20
1.15 Food Production ........................................................................................................................... 21
1.16 Agricultural Production Indices ................................................................................................... 23
1.17 Food Production Indices .............................................................................................................. 24
PART II: MACROECONOMIC INDICATORS
2.1a Real Gross Domestic Product ...................................................................................................... 27
2.1b Nominal Gross Domestic Product ............................................................................................... 28
2.1c Gross Domestic Product, PPP ...................................................................................................... 29
2.2 Growth of Real Gross Domestic Product .................................................................................... 30
2.3 Structure of Gross Domestic Product .......................................................................................... 31
2.4 Sectoral Growth Rates ................................................................................................................. 32
2.5a Per Capita Real Gross Domestic Product .................................................................................... 33
2.5b Per Capita Gross Domestic Product, PPP .................................................................................... 35
2.6 Per Capita Income ....................................................................................................................... 36
2.7 Structure of Demand ................................................................................................................... 37
2.8 Investment, Saving and Resource Gap ........................................................................................ 38
2.9 Growth of Demand ...................................................................................................................... 39
2.10 Government Finance ................................................................................................................... 40
2.11 Inflation (CPI) ............................................................................................................................. 41
2.12 GDP Implicit Deflator ................................................................................................................. 42
2.13 Prices and Exchange Rates .......................................................................................................... 43
2.14 Money Supply ............................................................................................................................. 45
2.15 Financial Depth and Efficiency ................................................................................................... 46
PART III: EXTERNAL SECTOR ECONOMIC INDICATORS
3.1 Exports of Goods and Services ................................................................................................... 49
3.2 Imports of Goods and Services ................................................................................................... 51
3.3 Trade Openness ........................................................................................................................... 53
3.4 Merchandise Exports (f.o.b) ........................................................................................................ 55
3.5 Merchandise Imports (c.i.f) .......................................................................................................... 57
3.6 Terms of Trade ............................................................................................................................... 58
3.7 Structure of Merchandise Exports ................................................................................................. 59
3.8 Structure of Merchandise Imports ................................................................................................. 60
3.9 Tariff ........................................................................................................................................... 61
3.10 Intra-IDB Exports ........................................................................................................................ 63
3.11 Intra-IDB Imports ........................................................................................................................ 64
3.12a Intra-Exports by Regional Groupings ........................................................................................... 65
3.12b Intra-Imports by Regional Groupings ........................................................................................... 66
3.13 Direction of Trade: Exports .......................................................................................................... 67
3.14 Direction of Trade: Imports .......................................................................................................... 68
3.15 Top-5 Export Partners ................................................................................................................ 69
3.16 Top-5 Import Partners ................................................................................................................ 75
3.17 Exports Concentration & Diversification .................................................................................... 81
3.18 Imports Concentration & Diversification .................................................................................... 82
3.19 Balance of Payments ................................................................................................................... 83
3.20 International Reserves and Ratio to Imports ................................................................................ 85
3.21 Net Financial Flows ..................................................................................................................... 87
3.22 Debt Indicators ............................................................................................................................ 88
3.23 Business Climate: Enterprise Surveys ........................................................................................ 89
3.24 Business Environment: Doing Business Indicators ..................................................................... 90
3.25 Private Sector Investment ............................................................................................................. 91
3.26 IDB Group Trade Financing (1396H-1429H) ............................................................................. 92
3.27 IDB Group Project Financing (1396H-1429H) ............................................................................ 94
3.28 Special Assistance, T.A & Total IDB Group Financing (1396H-1429H) ..................................... 95
Technical Note .......................................................................................................................................... 99
Glossary .................................................................................................................................................... 103
______________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
****************************************
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
Islamic Development Bank (ISDB)
ECONOMIC POLICY AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT
STATISTICAL MONOGRAPH N0. 29
KEY SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATISTICS ON IDB MEMBER COUNTRIES [May 2009]
http://www.isdb.org/irj/go/km/docs/documents/IDBDevelopments/Internet/English/IDB/CM/Publications/Statistical_Monograph/Monograph-2009.pdf
[full-text, 124 pages]
CONTENTS
Symbols, Acronyms and Abbreviations ..................................................................................................... vii
Data Sources ............................................................................................................................................. viii
Highlights ................................................................................................................................................. ix
PART I: DEMOGRAPHIC AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS
1.1 Population ................................................................................................................................... 3
1.2 Population Structure ..................................................................................................................... 4
1.3 Mortality Indicators ..................................................................................................................... 5
1.4 Vital Statistics .............................................................................................................................. 7
1.5 Education Indicators .................................................................................................................... 8
1.6 Health Expenditures .................................................................................................................... 9
1.7 Health Indicators .......................................................................................................................... 11
1.8a Poverty Indicators ........................................................................................................................ 12
1.8b Human Development Indicators .................................................................................................. 13
1.9 Information and Communication Technology Indicators ............................................................ 15
1.10 Science and Technology .............................................................................................................. 16
1.11 Employment Indicators ................................................................................................................ 17
1.12 Wage, Productivity and Competitiveness .................................................................................... 18
1.13 Environment Indicators ............................................................................................................... 19
1.14 Land Use Indicators ..................................................................................................................... 20
1.15 Food Production ........................................................................................................................... 21
1.16 Agricultural Production Indices ................................................................................................... 23
1.17 Food Production Indices .............................................................................................................. 24
PART II: MACROECONOMIC INDICATORS
2.1a Real Gross Domestic Product ...................................................................................................... 27
2.1b Nominal Gross Domestic Product ............................................................................................... 28
2.1c Gross Domestic Product, PPP ...................................................................................................... 29
2.2 Growth of Real Gross Domestic Product .................................................................................... 30
2.3 Structure of Gross Domestic Product .......................................................................................... 31
2.4 Sectoral Growth Rates ................................................................................................................. 32
2.5a Per Capita Real Gross Domestic Product .................................................................................... 33
2.5b Per Capita Gross Domestic Product, PPP .................................................................................... 35
2.6 Per Capita Income ....................................................................................................................... 36
2.7 Structure of Demand ................................................................................................................... 37
2.8 Investment, Saving and Resource Gap ........................................................................................ 38
2.9 Growth of Demand ...................................................................................................................... 39
2.10 Government Finance ................................................................................................................... 40
2.11 Inflation (CPI) ............................................................................................................................. 41
2.12 GDP Implicit Deflator ................................................................................................................. 42
2.13 Prices and Exchange Rates .......................................................................................................... 43
2.14 Money Supply ............................................................................................................................. 45
2.15 Financial Depth and Efficiency ................................................................................................... 46
PART III: EXTERNAL SECTOR ECONOMIC INDICATORS
3.1 Exports of Goods and Services ................................................................................................... 49
3.2 Imports of Goods and Services ................................................................................................... 51
3.3 Trade Openness ........................................................................................................................... 53
3.4 Merchandise Exports (f.o.b) ........................................................................................................ 55
3.5 Merchandise Imports (c.i.f) .......................................................................................................... 57
3.6 Terms of Trade ............................................................................................................................... 58
3.7 Structure of Merchandise Exports ................................................................................................. 59
3.8 Structure of Merchandise Imports ................................................................................................. 60
3.9 Tariff ........................................................................................................................................... 61
3.10 Intra-IDB Exports ........................................................................................................................ 63
3.11 Intra-IDB Imports ........................................................................................................................ 64
3.12a Intra-Exports by Regional Groupings ........................................................................................... 65
3.12b Intra-Imports by Regional Groupings ........................................................................................... 66
3.13 Direction of Trade: Exports .......................................................................................................... 67
3.14 Direction of Trade: Imports .......................................................................................................... 68
3.15 Top-5 Export Partners ................................................................................................................ 69
3.16 Top-5 Import Partners ................................................................................................................ 75
3.17 Exports Concentration & Diversification .................................................................................... 81
3.18 Imports Concentration & Diversification .................................................................................... 82
3.19 Balance of Payments ................................................................................................................... 83
3.20 International Reserves and Ratio to Imports ................................................................................ 85
3.21 Net Financial Flows ..................................................................................................................... 87
3.22 Debt Indicators ............................................................................................................................ 88
3.23 Business Climate: Enterprise Surveys ........................................................................................ 89
3.24 Business Environment: Doing Business Indicators ..................................................................... 90
3.25 Private Sector Investment ............................................................................................................. 91
3.26 IDB Group Trade Financing (1396H-1429H) ............................................................................. 92
3.27 IDB Group Project Financing (1396H-1429H) ............................................................................ 94
3.28 Special Assistance, T.A & Total IDB Group Financing (1396H-1429H) ..................................... 95
Technical Note .......................................................................................................................................... 99
Glossary .................................................................................................................................................... 103
______________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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