He's been commissioner of the United Football League, general manager of the Birmingham Fire, labor relations counsel at the NFL, and vice president of the Jacksonville Jaguars, who made football history with division titles in their fourth and fifth seasons.
Robert F. Wagner, Sr .was an Assemblyman and later a State Senator who helped pass legislation to set up a workers compensation system, building safety reforms after the Triangle Shirt Factory fire, labor standards, and affordable housing.
In the days after the Triangle fire, labor activist Rose Schneiderman spoke passionately at a memorial meeting and her words are as applicable to Dhakar and garment manufacturing centers the world over today as they were to New York a century ago.
The rapid-fire labor-intensiveness of Mr. Marclay's effort also emphasizes the laborious, collaborative nature of films — that they are themselves elaborate clockworks of actors, directors, cinematographers, set and costume designers and makeup artists.
While the growth has generally been applauded by state and local officials, it has also increased the burden on firefighters, who say high-rise fires are labor intensive and demand knowledge of a building's intricate electrical and ventilation systems.
Under fire from labor critics, worried about press leaks and facing a sagging stock price, Wal-Mart's leaders recognized that the allegations could have devastating consequences, documents and interviews show.
The plan quickly drew fire from labor unions and opposition parties, who cited Germany's 4 million unemployed and 7.3 million foreigners, the highest number of immigrants in any European country.
"Of course, if you applied the official hygiene, fire and labor codes, it was not done the way it was written," Arseny Popov, an authority on the Chinese diaspora in Russia with the Russian Academy of Sciences, said of the market's operations.
Mr. McGreevey, meanwhile, bathed in the adulation of every major police, fire and labor union, whose endorsements Mr. Schundler was left to dismiss as the tainted products of special interests.
The NLRB filed a complaint in May arguing that the firing violated labor law.
