When Desai and her colleagues walked out, they were not members of a union, but they soon joined the Association of Professional, Executive, Clerical and Computer Staff (Apex), which, along with the wider trade union movement, gave the Grunwick women considerable support during the strike, which lasted almost two years.
8.1 The obligations of the City as expressed and agreed to herein are not subject to release or discharge due to any contingencies, including, but not limited to, clerical errors, computer failures, late mailings or the failure to comply with reporting due dates or other scheduled due dates due to adverse weather, acts of God, acts of third parties or compliance with court orders.
But, as Gordon pointed out: Many of the inventions that replaced tedious and repetitive clerical labor with computers happened a long time ago, in the 1970s and 1980s.
A minimum of six months of secretarial or clerical duties involving personal computer word processing or spreadsheet applications is preferred.
Computers displaced clerical workers.
The biggest problems are likely to emerge in enterprises, where clerical workers who use computers for routine tasks will have to be retrained at significant expense.
The government first announced that the ballots from 36,000 polling stations across the country would be counted by computer, but the clerical body that oversees the elections said this week that they would be counted by hand.
The job classification variable was collapsed into technical/support staff (such as computer entry staff, clerical staff (e.g. receptionists), computer specialists, health information systems data analysts etc)., and professional staff.
Using his Indian clerical staff as a virtual human computer to parse weather data, British mathematician Sir Gilbert Walker correlated recurring monsoon failures and drought to seesawing atmospheric pressure in the eastern and western Pacific.
We are extremely grateful to all the families who took part in this study, the midwives for their help in recruiting them, and the whole ALSPAC team, which includes interviewers, computer and laboratory technicians, clerical workers, research scientists, volunteers, managers, receptionists and nurses.
