With student debts spiraling out of control, salaries stagnating, and good jobs growing ever scarcer, young professionals have struggled unlike at any time within recent memory to find meaningful employment, solvency, and purpose.
While it will require work on your part at least you will know that your monies won't go poof in the night by incompetent executives,out of control salaries, non-performance and out-ethics -- (Enron, Countrywide, Indy Mac, Bear Stearns, etc).
The owners wanted to control salary growth and insisted on a salary cap, changes to free agency and salary arbitration.
Or, if not, then some price controls–salary caps, that is.
Local managers, concerned about their budget, are interested in finding ways to curtail labor costs by controlling salary levels.
Meanwhile the government has done nothing to control top salaries and bonuses or to curb tax avoidance.
Congress no longer retains power to fix postal tariffs (although changes may be vetoed) or to control employees' salaries, and political patronage has been virtually eliminated.
Central-government bodies have tight control over salaries, hiring and firing, and universities were only recently given the right to decide on launching new study programmes.
Players, known as "jumpers," who went from major league baseball to the Mexican League threatened the ability of major league team owners to tightly control player salaries.
The new rookie wage scale, one of the key elements of the newly ratified collective bargaining agreement, was implemented not only to control rookie salaries but to end long holdouts by first round picks.
But with each major contract -- Rodriguez, Manny Ramirez, Mike Hampton, Mike Mussina have signed this off-season's biggest contracts for a total of $621.5 million -- owners of some lower- or middle-revenue clubs become more militant in their resolve to grab back control of salaries when the current collective bargaining agreement expires at the end of next season.
