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Institute for Workplace Studies                 Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations          Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor                  Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016                      Director, IWS News Bureau
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IWS Weekly Bulletin,  27 October 2004


Academic Research

INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR LABOUR STUDIES (IILS) [at the International Labour Organization (ILO)]

Discussion paper DP/154/2004

Decent Work Research Programme

The Irish social partnership and the “celtic tiger” phenomenon

Lucio Baccaro and Marco Simoni

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inst/download/dp15404.pdf

[full-text, 47 pages]

The ILO's Global Union Research Network (GURN) has launched the following call for papers to incite/stimulate research on trade unions, globalization and development:

Trade Unions, Globalization and Development - Strengthening Rights and Capabilities of Workers

Organized by the Global Union Research Network (GURN) in Porto Alegre, Brazil

January 24-25, 2005

http://www.gurn.info/meeting/wsf05/callpapr.html

Government Reports/Press - International, Federal, State, Local


International

New from the European Monitoring Centre on Change (EMCC)

EMCC dossier on the EU automotive sector

http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/content/source/eu04017a.html

Includes - An interactive<http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/automotivemap/> map' showing basic statistics for each country and the main car assembly plants ....

Six automotive company case studies published in the dossier

http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/content/source/eu04017a.html

   * DaimlerChrysler

http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/publications/2004/ef0489en3.pdf

[full-text, 18 pages]

   *PSA Peugeot-Citroën

http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/publications/2004/ef0489en1.pdf

[full-text, 17 pages]

   * Volvo Truck Corporation,

http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/publications/2004/ef0489en2.pdf

[full-text, 12 pages]

   * AVL

http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/publications/2004/ef0489en4.pdf

[full-text, 11 pages]

   * TRW Automotive

http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/publications/2004/ef0489en5.pdf

[full-text, 17 pages]

   *Feu Vert

http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/publications/2004/ef0489en6.pdf

New programs from the European Monitoring Centre on Change (EMCC)

Achieving gender balance strategies for competitiveness

http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/content/source/eu04018a.html

Fashioning the future: Challenges for the textiles and clothing sector

http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/content/source/eu04020a.html

Driving forward - futures for the automotive sector from a regional perspective

http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/content/source/eu04019a.html

From the ILO Bangkok Library

GET Ahead for Women in Enterprise Training Package and Resource Kit

by Susanne Bauer, Gerry Finnegan and Nelien Haspels

Bangkok: ILO, 2004

355 p.

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/region/asro/bangkok/library/pub4c.htm

Federal

Census: Working at Home: 2000 (PHC-T-35) [20 October 2004]

http://www.census.gov/population/www/cen2000/phc-t35.html

Press Release

Census Bureau Releases Information on Home Workers

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/census_2000/002966.html

Census: United State Foreign- Born Population [20 October 2004]

Slide Presentations

http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/foreign/slides.html

Census: State Government Employment and Payroll - March 2003  [26 October 2004]

http://www.census.gov/govs/www/apesst03.html

Local Government Employment and Payroll - March 2003 [26 October 2004]

http://www.census.gov/govs/www/apesloc03.html

Press Release [26 October 2004

'Full-Time Equivalent' State and Local Workers Near 16 million

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/governments/002983.html

Nine Honorees Receive Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao's New Freedom Initiative Award Recognizing Achievements On Behalf Of People With Disabilities [25 October 2004]

http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/odep/ODEP20042039.htm

State

Employment in New York State Newsletter - September 2004 [21 October 2004]

http://www.labor.state.ny.us/labor_market/LMI_business/newsletr/current/index.htm

or

http://www.labor.state.ny.us/pdf/enys0904.pdf

[full-text, 4 pages]

NY STATE'S UNEMPLOYMENT RATE DECLINES TO LOWEST LEVEL IN 3 YEARS [21 October 2004]

http://www.labor.state.ny.us/agency/pressrel/pruistat.htm

Institutes/Associations/Commercial

From Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU)

Court Rules that Central States Documents Will See the Light of Day

Victory for Pension Movement and Teamster Rights [27 October 2004]

http://www.tdu.org/Pension/PensionBooksWin/pensionbookswin.html

The following comes from KEY WORKPLACE DOCUMENTS [of the Federal Government] provided by the Catherwood Library at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. See-

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/keyWorkplaceDocuments/government/federal/default.html

Unemployment rates in the European Union and selected member countries, civilian labor force basis (1), seasonally adjusted, 1990-2004 [8 October 2004]

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/downloads/keyWorkplaceDocuments/Department%20of%20Labor%20Special%20Reports/UnemployRatesEurope.pdf

Unemployment rates in nine countries, civilian labor force basis, approximating U.S. concepts, seasonally adjusted, 1990-2004

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/downloads/keyWorkplaceDocuments/Department%20of%20Labor%20Special%20Reports/InternanationalNineCountries2004unemploy.pdf

TOWERS PERRIN

LEGISLATIVE TRACKING CHART---HUMAN RESOURCES Updated 21 October 2004

http://www.towersperrin.com/hrservices/webcache/towers/United_States/publications/Periodicals/Leg_Tracking_Charts/2004_10_21/LTC_HR_2004_10_21.pdf

Law

EEOC OBTAINS $1.29 MILLION JURY VERDICT AGAINST DUPONT FOR DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION [25 October 2004]

http://www.eeoc.gov/press/10-25-04.html

From the Federal Judicial Center -

http://www.fjc.gov/newweb/jnetweb.nsf

Major Issues in the Federal Law of Employment Discrimination, Fourth Edition

George Rutherglen

2004, 188 pages

http://www.fjc.gov/public/pdf.nsf/lookup/EmplDis4.pdf/$file/EmplDis4.pdf

[full-text, 196 pages]

Statistical Reports

BLS: USUAL WEEKLY EARNINGS OF WAGE AND SALARY WORKERS:  THIRD QUARTER 2004 [20 October 2004]

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/wkyeng.nr0.htm

or

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/wkyeng.pdf

[full-text, 7 pages]

BLS: MASS LAYOFFS IN SEPTEMBER 2004 [21 October 2004]

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/mmls.nr0.htm

or

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/mmls.pdf

[full-text, 8 pages]

BLS: REGIONAL AND STATE EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT:  SEPTEMBER 2004 [22 October 2004]

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/laus.nr0.htm

or

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/laus.pdf

[full-text, 16 pages]

and

Supplemental Files Table of Contents

http://www.bls.gov/web/laus.supp.toc.htm

BLS: COUNTY EMPLOYMENT AND WAGES:  FIRST QUARTER 2004 [26 October 2004]

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cewqtr.nr0.htm

or

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cewqtr.pdf

[full-text, 23 pages]

Idiosyncratic But Relevant Facts

"My Money" Tool Kit [October 2004]

http://www.mymoney.gov/

[Topics appear in left margin]

Crime in the United States - 2003 [25 October 2004]

http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/03cius.htm

Section I - Summary of the Uniform Crime Reporting Program

Section II - Offenses Reported

Section III - Offenses Cleared

Section IV - Persons Arrested

Section V - Special Report - Violence Among Family Members and Intimate Partners

http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius_03/pdf/03sec5.pdf

Section VI - Law Enforcement Personnel

http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius_03/pdf/03sec6.pdf

Section VII - APPENDICES

See PRESS RELEASE at

http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel04/crimestat102504.htm

Facts for Features from the Census Bureau

CB04-FFSE.14-2  October 26, 2004

* Special Edition *

Presidential Election: 2004

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/002957.html

or

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2004/cb04ffse14-2.pdf

[full-text, 4 pages]

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