The main structure of the agreement was already in place, one designed to protect incumbent profits and sacrifice U.S. jobs, with very dubious claims about labor and environmental standards that have simply never been enforced in other trade agreements, including by this administration".
Obama cites John Steinbeck's "In Dubious Battle," about a labor dispute; Robert Caro's "Power Broker," about Robert Moses; and Studs Terkel's "Working".
Americans are accustomed to hearing dire but dubious pronouncements about skill and labor shortages in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields and the damage they do to prosperity and competitiveness.
The documents emerging in another case in downtown L.A. raise serious questions of dubious dealings between Hollywood's labor unions and the studios, on the eve of negotiations over a new contract.
Some labor leaders themselves of dubious credibility accuse Shajahan of organizing a rally that sparked the riots, timed in advance of a meeting between the board of trade executives, government officials, and labor activists that sets the minimum wage to decide on an increase.
The problem cases tend to show multiple symptoms of poor management: dubious real-estate moves, ham-fisted labor relations, klutzy P.R., and, above all, a lack of artistic focus.
"For years," he wrote in his letter, "we have heard the ideas, non sequiturs and dubious pronouncements regarding the future of the labor movement and how to make it stronger by these union 'leaders' and even their predecessors".
The result is "Travels in Siberia," an uproarious, sometimes dark yarn filled with dubious meals, broken-down vehicles, abandoned slave-labor camps and ubiquitous statues of Lenin — "On the Road" meets "The Gulag Archipelago".
College students being compelled to take on internships of dubious scholarly value has recently emerged as a labor issue in China.
