Binational guestworker unions: moving guestworkers into the house of labor.
INTRODUCTION In the mid-1990s, Francisco Hernandez Juarez, head of the Mexican telephone workers' union, proposed the establishment of "an International Union for Migrant Workers." (1) This idea never came to fruition, but the recent success of three unions in organizing groups of agricultural guestworkers (2) again raises...

New paradigms for diversifying faculty and staff in higher education: uncovering cultural biases in the search and hiring process.
Introduction In the last ten years, many colleges, universities, boards, and agencies have jumped on the diverse faculty/staff hiring bandwagon not only by issuing resolutions, policies, and mandates but also by inventing programs, initiatives, and strategies all intended to increase the number of faculty and staff of...

Danielson, Charlotte. Enhancing Professional Practice: A Framework for Teaching (2nd Edition).
DANIELSON, Charlotte. Enhancing Professional Practice: A Framework for Teaching (2nd Edition). Alexandria: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2007. 200pp. $27.95 (p). The framework for teaching is a research-based set of components of instruction that are grounded in a constructivist view of learning and teaching. The framework...

DoLE says gov't hits its target of 1 M overseas jobs in just 11 months.
Byline: RAYMUND F. ANTONIO The government met its target on overseas employment even before the year ends as more than one million Filipinos have been deployed to 180 countries over the last 11 months, the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) headed by Secretary Arturo Brion reported...

Suit seeks halt to Resident Match Day program.
WILMINGTON, DEL. -- The Resident Match is fundamentally anticompetitive and represents an effort to depress the wages and opportunities of medical residents, according to a lawsuit filed by former and current residents. As the suit drags on in court, some of the hospitals involved are trying to...

Match day suit raises anticompetition concerns: fixed slots, fixed pay.
WILMINGTON, DEL. -- The Resident Match is fundamentally anticompetitive and represents an effort to depress the wages and opportunities of medical residents, according to a lawsuit filed by former and current residents As the suit drags on in court, some of the hospitals involved are trying to...

Lawsuit filed against Resident Match raises anticompetition concerns; fixed slots, fixed pay.
WILMINGTON, DEL. -- The Resident Match is fundamentally anticompetitive and represents an effort to depress the wages and opportunities of medical residents, according to a lawsuit filed by former and current residents. As the suit drags on in court, some of the hospitals involved are trying to...

Council to trim list of candidates for city manager.
Byline: CITY BEAT/SPRINGFIELD By Serena Markstrom The Register-Guard The pile of potential city managers to succeed retiring Mike Kelly is about to shrink. On Monday, the City Council will hold a nonpublic executive session with Bob Murray, the executive search specialist hired by the city,...

Adding 5 deputies to result in saving.
Byline: County Beat by Randi Bjornstad The Register-Guard BELIEVE IT OR NOT, Lane County's plan to hire five new sheriff's deputies to work at the jail - the Board of Commissioners OK'd the plan Wednesday - actually should end up saving taxpayers some money. That's...

DepEd's tutor-hiring procedure criticized.
Byline: TONY PE. RIMANDO LEGAZPI CITY - The National Organization of Professional Teachers Inc. (NOPTI), the only association of educators duly accredited by the Professional Regulations Commission (PRC), has described the Department of Education's (DepEd) latest recruitment procedure as "unjust and discriminatory" to many poor qualified applicants,...