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We are starting to have a little bit more of a public conversation about foreign policy contractors, but people do not fully realize the significance of the changes that have taken place.
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Hendricks' wife, Diane, started her own company to sell low-cost insurance policies to contractors.
Under that policy, nonunion contractors were able to bid on projects but had to follow rules on overtime, benefits and other conditions set by union negotiators.
Though it recommends a wage floor for the present, the heart of its proposal is something else: a parity wage and benefits policy for contractors, based on collective bargaining.
Walmart also recently introduced stricter fire-safety audits, and a "zero tolerance" policy towards contractors caught using unauthorised factories to make Walmart products.Safety, eventuallyFor the past couple of months the main international firms buying clothes from Bangladesh have been meeting government representatives to try to agree on a broader strategy to improve factory safety.
Reporting on the steadily rising trend of outsourcing, Scott Shane and Ron Nixon of the New York Times reported, "Without a public debate or formal policy decision, contractors have become a virtual fourth branch of government.
The result: foreign policy by contractor.
The agreement also expands the list of those who must be named as "additional insureds" on the mandatory liability insurance policy the contractor must take out when performing major renovations.
This includes developing a comprehensive policy for contractor ethics and oversight to complement the pre-qualification process.
If a policy turn to contractors, then, entails paying in money and not medals, we can conceive of the rise of military contractors not only in terms of privatization and outsourcing, but also as a retrenchment from a medal system to a money system.
In an interview with the Financial Times, Mr. Benard said he supported Mr. Morton's policy toward the contractors.
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