Friday, June 05, 2009
[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.
______________________________
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
________________________________________________________________________
NO MESSAGES will be sent until 12 July 2009.
______________________________
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 : 11:12 AM
[IWS] ILR Press: STAGED ACTION: SIX PLAYS from the AMERICAN WORKERS' THEATRE [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
________________________________________________________________________
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
****************************************
_______________________________
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 : 6:05 AM
[IWS] Dublin Foundation: EUROPEAN & INTERNATIONAL FRAMEWORK AGREEMENTS: PRACTICAL EXPERIENCES & STRATEGIC APPROACHES [5 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
________________________________________________________________________
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
______________________________
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
________________________________________________________________________
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
______________________________
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 : 5:33 AM
Thursday, June 04, 2009
[IWS] Dublin Foundation: DIVERSITY POLICY CASE STUDIES 2009 in EMPLOYMENT and SERVICE PROVISION [as of 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
________________________________________________________________________
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.
______________________________
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
________________________________________________________________________
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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# posted by SBasefsky : 11:12 AM
[IWS] BEA: FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTORS' OUTLAYS TO ACQUIRE OR ESTABLISH U.S. BUSINESSES INCREASED IN 2008 [4 June 2009]
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School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
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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Cornell/ILR School
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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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# posted by SBasefsky : 10:42 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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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
______________________________
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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# posted by SBasefsky : 5:18 AM
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
[IWS] GM & CHRYSLER BANKRUPTCY DOCUMENTATION [2 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
________________________________________________________________________
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
______________________________
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
________________________________________________________________________
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
______________________________
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 : 1:19 PM
[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
****************************************
# posted by SBasefsky : 10:34 AM
[IWS] OECD: CHINA [Reports & Statistics]
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
________________________________________________________________________
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Enhanced Engagement Countries
CHINA
http://www.oecd.org/country/0,3377,en_33873108_36016481_1_1_1_1_1,00.html
or
www.oecd.org/china
This is a one-stop-shop for OECD reports and statistics on China. Browse the documents in chronological order or by topic (e.g. economy, trade, development, environment, energy, social issues).
ABOUT
http://www.oecd.org/about/0,3347,en_33873108_36016481_1_1_1_1_1,00.html
STATISTICS
http://www.oecd.org/statisticsdata/0,3381,en_33873108_36016481_1_1_1_1_1,00.html
PUBLICATIONS AND DOCUMENTS
http://www.oecd.org/publicationanddocuments/0,3395,en_33873108_36016481_1_1_1_1_1,00.html
INFORMATION BY TOPIC
http://www.oecd.org/informationbytopic/0,3397,en_33873108_36016481_1_1_1_1_1,00.html
-- INCLUDES EMPLOYMENT
http://www.oecd.org/topicdocumentlist/0,3448,en_33873108_36016481_1_1_1_1_37457,00.html
______________________________
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
________________________________________________________________________
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Enhanced Engagement Countries
CHINA
http://www.oecd.org/country/0,3377,en_33873108_36016481_1_1_1_1_1,00.html
or
www.oecd.org/china
This is a one-stop-shop for OECD reports and statistics on China. Browse the documents in chronological order or by topic (e.g. economy, trade, development, environment, energy, social issues).
ABOUT
http://www.oecd.org/about/0,3347,en_33873108_36016481_1_1_1_1_1,00.html
STATISTICS
http://www.oecd.org/statisticsdata/0,3381,en_33873108_36016481_1_1_1_1_1,00.html
PUBLICATIONS AND DOCUMENTS
http://www.oecd.org/publicationanddocuments/0,3395,en_33873108_36016481_1_1_1_1_1,00.html
INFORMATION BY TOPIC
http://www.oecd.org/informationbytopic/0,3397,en_33873108_36016481_1_1_1_1_1,00.html
-- INCLUDES EMPLOYMENT
http://www.oecd.org/topicdocumentlist/0,3448,en_33873108_36016481_1_1_1_1_37457,00.html
______________________________
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 : 5:31 AM
[IWS] EU AGEING POPULATION: DEALING WITH IMPACT--2009 AGEING REPORT
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
________________________________________________________________________
European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP)
Dealing with the impact of an ageing population in the EU: 2009 Ageing Report
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2009:0180:FIN:EN:PDF
[full-text, 15 pages]
Includes STATISTICAL ANNEX with TABLES & CHARTS....
Press Release 2 June 2009
http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/etv/news/default.asp?idnews=4528
Communication from the Commission
This Communication presents the latest long-term economic and budgetary
projections and a first take on the Commission's views on Europe's ability
to tackle the challenge of ageing in view of new data and the current
economic developments.
Recent analysis confirms that there is a window of opportunity a period
of about ten years during which labour forces will continue to increase
for implementing the structural reforms needed by ageing societies. Taking
no action would weaken the EU's ability to meet the future needs of an
ageing population. [extract]
______________________________
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
________________________________________________________________________
European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP)
Dealing with the impact of an ageing population in the EU: 2009 Ageing Report
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2009:0180:FIN:EN:PDF
[full-text, 15 pages]
Includes STATISTICAL ANNEX with TABLES & CHARTS....
Press Release 2 June 2009
http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/etv/news/default.asp?idnews=4528
Communication from the Commission
This Communication presents the latest long-term economic and budgetary
projections and a first take on the Commission's views on Europe's ability
to tackle the challenge of ageing in view of new data and the current
economic developments.
Recent analysis confirms that there is a window of opportunity a period
of about ten years during which labour forces will continue to increase
for implementing the structural reforms needed by ageing societies. Taking
no action would weaken the EU's ability to meet the future needs of an
ageing population. [extract]
______________________________
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 : 5:18 AM
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
[IWS] AoA: AGING STATISTICS
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
________________________________________________________________________
Administration on Aging (AoA)
Aging Statistics
http://www.aoa.gov/AoARoot/Aging_Statistics/index.aspx
The older population--persons 65 years or older--numbered 37.3 million in 2006 (the latest year for which data is available). They represented 12.4% of the U.S. population, about one in every eight Americans. By 2030, there will be about 71.5 million older persons, more than twice their number in 2000. People 65+ represented 12.4% of the population in the year 2000 but are expected to grow to be 20% of the population by 2030. The information in this section of the AoA web site brings together a wide variety of statistical information about this growing population.
Please select from the topics below to learn more:
Profile of Older Americans
* < http://www.aoa.gov/AoARoot/Aging_Statistics/Profile/index.aspx>
AGing Integrated Database (AGID)
* < http://www.aoa.gov/AoARoot/Site_Utilities/Standard_External_Disclaimer.aspx?redirection=http://198.136.163.234/default.asp >
* < http://www.aoa.gov/AoARoot/Aging_Statistics/Census_Population/Index.aspx >
Projected Future Growth of Older Population
* < http://www.aoa.gov/AoARoot/Aging_Statistics/future_growth/future_growth.aspx >
Minority Aging
* < http://www.aoa.gov/AoARoot/Aging_Statistics/minority_aging/Index.aspx >
Key Indicators of Well-Being
* < http://www.agingstats.gov/agingstatsdotnet/main_site/default.aspx >
______________________________
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
________________________________________________________________________
Administration on Aging (AoA)
Aging Statistics
http://www.aoa.gov/AoARoot/Aging_Statistics/index.aspx
The older population--persons 65 years or older--numbered 37.3 million in 2006 (the latest year for which data is available). They represented 12.4% of the U.S. population, about one in every eight Americans. By 2030, there will be about 71.5 million older persons, more than twice their number in 2000. People 65+ represented 12.4% of the population in the year 2000 but are expected to grow to be 20% of the population by 2030. The information in this section of the AoA web site brings together a wide variety of statistical information about this growing population.
Please select from the topics below to learn more:
Profile of Older Americans
* < http://www.aoa.gov/AoARoot/Aging_Statistics/Profile/index.aspx>
AGing Integrated Database (AGID)
* < http://www.aoa.gov/AoARoot/Site_Utilities/Standard_External_Disclaimer.aspx?redirection=http://198.136.163.234/default.asp >
- External Web Site Policy
- < http://www.aoa.gov/AoAroot/Site_Utilities/Disclaimer.aspx>
- < http://www.aoa.gov/AoAroot/Site_Utilities/Disclaimer.aspx>
* < http://www.aoa.gov/AoARoot/Aging_Statistics/Census_Population/Index.aspx >
Projected Future Growth of Older Population
* < http://www.aoa.gov/AoARoot/Aging_Statistics/future_growth/future_growth.aspx >
Minority Aging
* < http://www.aoa.gov/AoARoot/Aging_Statistics/minority_aging/Index.aspx >
Key Indicators of Well-Being
* < http://www.agingstats.gov/agingstatsdotnet/main_site/default.aspx >
______________________________
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 : 10:15 AM
[IWS] BLS: HOURS-BASED RATES: CENSUS OF FATAL OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES [2 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
________________________________________________________________________
Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries - Hours-Based Rates [2 June 2009]
http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshnotice10.htm
Fatality rates depict the risk of incurring a fatal occupational injury faced by all workers or a group of workers, such as workers in a certain occupation or industry, and can be used to compare risk among worker groups with varying employment levels. Since employment data are not collected by the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI), fatality rates have been calculated using employment estimates from the Current Population Survey (CPS), supplemented where needed with data from the U.S. Department of Defense. All the CFOI fatality rates published by BLS for the years 1992 through 2007 were employment-based, and measured the risk of fatal injury for those employed during a given period of time, regardless of hours worked.
Hours-based rates measure fatality risk per standardized length of exposure, and are generally considered more accurate than employment-based rates. Hours-based rates use the average number of employees at work and the average hours each employee works. Employment and hours-based rates will be similar for groups of workers who tend to work full-time. However, differences will be observed for worker groups who tend to have a high percentage of part-time workers, such as younger workers.
Hours worked data are also obtained from the CPS. The scope of CPS differs from that of CFOI in both the employment-based model and the hours-based model. Where these differences occur, CFOI adjusts fatality counts used in calculating the rates to maintain consistency between the rate numerator (number of fatalities) and the denominator (annual average employment and/or average hours at work). The employment-based fatality rate calculation excluded only workers under the age of 16. These workers will be excluded with the new hours-based rates as well, but volunteers and military personnel will also be excluded. CFOI has not been able to obtain reliable hours worked data for the resident military and volunteers are not included in the CPS data.
The table < http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/cfoi/cfoi_rates_2007h.pdf> 2007 Fatality Rates (in PDF format) includes both hours-based and employment-based rates. However, hours-based fatality rates should not be directly compared to employment-based rates because of the differences in the numerators and denominators used.
The new rate methodology will be employed beginning with CFOI data for 2008 scheduled to be released in August 2009.
If you have any questions about the CFOI transition to hours-based rates, please call 202-691-6170 or < http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/forms/iif?/iif/oshnotice10.htm> email us.
______________________________
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
________________________________________________________________________
Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries - Hours-Based Rates [2 June 2009]
http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshnotice10.htm
Fatality rates depict the risk of incurring a fatal occupational injury faced by all workers or a group of workers, such as workers in a certain occupation or industry, and can be used to compare risk among worker groups with varying employment levels. Since employment data are not collected by the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI), fatality rates have been calculated using employment estimates from the Current Population Survey (CPS), supplemented where needed with data from the U.S. Department of Defense. All the CFOI fatality rates published by BLS for the years 1992 through 2007 were employment-based, and measured the risk of fatal injury for those employed during a given period of time, regardless of hours worked.
Hours-based rates measure fatality risk per standardized length of exposure, and are generally considered more accurate than employment-based rates. Hours-based rates use the average number of employees at work and the average hours each employee works. Employment and hours-based rates will be similar for groups of workers who tend to work full-time. However, differences will be observed for worker groups who tend to have a high percentage of part-time workers, such as younger workers.
Hours worked data are also obtained from the CPS. The scope of CPS differs from that of CFOI in both the employment-based model and the hours-based model. Where these differences occur, CFOI adjusts fatality counts used in calculating the rates to maintain consistency between the rate numerator (number of fatalities) and the denominator (annual average employment and/or average hours at work). The employment-based fatality rate calculation excluded only workers under the age of 16. These workers will be excluded with the new hours-based rates as well, but volunteers and military personnel will also be excluded. CFOI has not been able to obtain reliable hours worked data for the resident military and volunteers are not included in the CPS data.
The table < http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/cfoi/cfoi_rates_2007h.pdf> 2007 Fatality Rates (in PDF format) includes both hours-based and employment-based rates. However, hours-based fatality rates should not be directly compared to employment-based rates because of the differences in the numerators and denominators used.
The new rate methodology will be employed beginning with CFOI data for 2008 scheduled to be released in August 2009.
If you have any questions about the CFOI transition to hours-based rates, please call 202-691-6170 or < http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/forms/iif?/iif/oshnotice10.htm> email us.
______________________________
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 : 10:07 AM
[IWS] EIRO: TEMPORARY AGENCY WORK & COLLECTIVE BARGAINING IN THE EU [28 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
________________________________________________________________________
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions [Dublin Foundation]
European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO]
COMPARATIVE STUDY
Temporary agency work and collective bargaining in the EU [28 May 2009]
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/studies/tn0807019s/index.htm
or
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/studies/tn0807019s/tn0807019s.htm
or
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/docs/eiro/tn0807019s/tn0807019s.pdf
[full-text, 54 pages]
This report reviews the present situation regarding the use of temporary agency work (TAW) in European Union Member States. It looks at arrangements for social dialogue and collective bargaining at national level across the EU. It examines the role of collective bargaining in determining such matters as length of assignment, the use of TAW in strikes, and the proportion of agency workers allowed; it also looks at the role of collective bargaining in determining equality of treatment in pay, training and other conditions of employment. In addition, the report reviews other forms of regulation, and national variations, including the composition of companies in the field of TAW, its sectoral and occupational distribution, and the duration of temporary assignments.
The study was compiled on the basis of individual national reports submitted by the EIRO correspondents. The text of each of these national reports is available below. The reports have not been edited or approved by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions. The national reports were drawn up in response to a < http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/docs/eiro/tn0807019s/tawfinalquestionnaire_080401.doc > questionnaire and should be read in conjunction with it.
CONTENTS
Introduction
Temporary agency work a snapshot
Legal provisions and developments
Social dialogue and collective bargaining
Regulatory outcomes
Conclusions
Bibliography
______________________________
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
________________________________________________________________________
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions [Dublin Foundation]
European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO]
COMPARATIVE STUDY
Temporary agency work and collective bargaining in the EU [28 May 2009]
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/studies/tn0807019s/index.htm
or
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/studies/tn0807019s/tn0807019s.htm
or
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/docs/eiro/tn0807019s/tn0807019s.pdf
[full-text, 54 pages]
This report reviews the present situation regarding the use of temporary agency work (TAW) in European Union Member States. It looks at arrangements for social dialogue and collective bargaining at national level across the EU. It examines the role of collective bargaining in determining such matters as length of assignment, the use of TAW in strikes, and the proportion of agency workers allowed; it also looks at the role of collective bargaining in determining equality of treatment in pay, training and other conditions of employment. In addition, the report reviews other forms of regulation, and national variations, including the composition of companies in the field of TAW, its sectoral and occupational distribution, and the duration of temporary assignments.
The study was compiled on the basis of individual national reports submitted by the EIRO correspondents. The text of each of these national reports is available below. The reports have not been edited or approved by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions. The national reports were drawn up in response to a < http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/docs/eiro/tn0807019s/tawfinalquestionnaire_080401.doc > questionnaire and should be read in conjunction with it.
CONTENTS
Introduction
Temporary agency work a snapshot
Legal provisions and developments
Social dialogue and collective bargaining
Regulatory outcomes
Conclusions
Bibliography
______________________________
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 : 6:26 AM
