Ver.di this year organized a strike by workers at Zara, the clothing retailer, and has threatened work stoppages at Globus, a discount chain, Mr. Jöris said.
"Golden Exits" is a story of sibling rivalries and family heritage (artistic and material), of fragile marriages and bitter solitude, of solidarity and betrayal, of the possibilities of youth and the limits of encroaching middle age, of work as passion and work as burden, of the intimate relationships that develop through work, that nourish work, and that threaten work.
Competing demands threatened work by diminished productivity, late arrivals or periods of absence [ 9].
Caring threatened work, either the quality of it or the sheer possibility of keeping their job.
While there has been some flooding of churches, which hold much of Italy's cultural patrimony, the water generally has not yet threatened works of art, said Vincenzo Pandolfino, of the Culture Ministry's art-protection division.
The city is sunk into recession's mire, unemployment tops 10percentt — black male unemployment edges toward 50percentt — and foreclosure threatens working class families, and the candidates made glancing mentions of all of this.
But maybe they should have seen how threatening their work was to other oppressed minorities, in this case Muslims in France?
As in a lot of the country, much of the focus these days is on May 1, when immigrant groups in many states are threatening a work stoppage.
In a survey released yesterday by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB), respondents overwhelmingly say that funding troubles are threatening their work and America's scientific preeminence.
Having so many contracts up at the same time could give the union leverage by threatening coordinated work stoppages, potentially disrupting Marriott business in different cities.
And that language is nowhere more exquisitely euphemistic than in the military, where the jargon includes such gems of evasion as "collateral damage" and "neutralize," and where the combination of life-threatening work and close quarters gives rise to the kind of slang men use when they slap each other on the back or come to blows — the kind of talk that is common in Mamet's signature works.
