| Strike vote taken by Stennis contractor
More than 100 unionized private aerospace workers at Stennis Space Center have voted to reject a new labor contract offer and say they will strike if their employer refuses to renegotiate. The workers are employed by Jacobs Technology, which absorbed Sverdrup Corp., a longtime contractor for NASA. The company performs critical test facilities maintenance and is involved in testing space shuttle main engines at Stennis. A vote on the contract was held Thursday night. "The contract was rejected and we unanimously voted to strike," said Joe Harrington, district business representative for Local 2249 of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. He said meetings are scheduled for April 27 with a federal mediator. Harrington said the local has only about 118 members.
Redfin Revisited: A Company To Watch
Redfin, the Seattle based and self-described "first Internet brokerage" turned one year old recently. It has been nearly that long since we took a look at it so we made a second visit. We found, first of all, that Redfin has branched out in several directions. It has grown from primarily operating in King County, Washington to running offices, perhaps services is a better word for this primarily virtual company, in several of California's largest cities. Redfin is slated to open soon in Chicago, Boston, and Washington, D.C. so it is possible that the company will soon be in your area as well.
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Glendon Y. McCreary
You and I may or may not have a lot in common depending on your political and social views. But there is one characteristic we almost certainly share, assuming you are an American: Neither you nor I are very popular in the rest of the world.
While being the global superpower is naturally going to engender animosity from some corners of the world, what has been striking in the last several years is the fact that this distaste for the United States, and in particular for President Bush, has now taken hold in many countries we would consider our allies.
In a poll taken by the British newspaper The Guardian last year, people in four countries, Great Britain, Canada, Mexico and Israel, were asked to pick who they felt was a "threat to world peace." Not surprisingly, Osama bin Laden took the grand prize in this category, with 87 percent of British citizens believing him to be a threat.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO CONTINUE CONSIDERATION OF LEGAL ASPECTS OF ...
Acting on the recommendations of its Sixth Committee (Legal) following its resumed session this month, the General Assembly this morning decided to continue its consideration of the legal aspects of the proposed reform of the United Nations internal system of justice during its next session and grant observer status to the Islamic Development Bank Group. .
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