The new system was initially maintained by union workers with high seniority.
To finance the sale, five banks — Bank of America, Barclays, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Merrill Lynch — agreed to provide more than $8 billion in loans, debt that has a higher seniority than Tribune's bonds because it is secured by assets.
Who's their master, the police department or the party host?" And when on-duty officers respond to a disturbance, as they did at the riotous July 4th extravaganza thrown in Bridgehampton by the hip-hop entrepreneur Sean Combs, what happens when they face a fellow officer, possibly one with higher seniority, working security?
However, some of the workers at those plants expressed concern in Internet postings that the added jobs would reduce their overtime and that workers with higher seniority would transfer in from other plants, making their job less secure in the event of a future downturn.
Today, with Republicans now at the helm, Texas has the largest G.O.P. delegation in Congress, and those members have relatively high seniority, spots on key committees and seats at the leadership table -- evidence, observers say, of the state's sway inside the Capitol.
Base pay rates in the non-union auto plants are quite similar to the union rates, but older, higher seniority workers get more.
As a result, having a workforce with high seniority often means having a higher cost workforce.
Graphic designers were generally older and had a higher seniority than floor layers.
More responders had high seniority, were working day shift, were working more than 30 hours pr.
There were fewer responders with low job seniority (0 1 years) and more responders with high seniority (>10 years) compared to non-responders.
