Client initiated violence directed toward staff: an exploratory comparison between a rural & an urban mental health social service agency.
Abstract This is an exploratory comparative study investigating differences in the incidence of workplace client initiated violence between an urban and similar rural mental health service agency. The urban centre is located within 20 minutes of the centre of a metropolitan area whose population exceeds three million....

The work-family dilemma.
I Don't Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother by Allison Pearson Knopf, 2002. 338 pages. $23. Can Working Families Ever Win? A New Democracy Forum on Helping Parents Succeed at Work and Caregiving by Jody Heymann et...

Labor's Text: The Worker in American Fiction.
Labor's Text: The Worker in American Fiction. By LAURA HAPKE. New Brunswick, NJ, and London: Rutgers University Press. 2001. xiv + 474 pp. $60 (pbk $30). ISBN: 0-8135-2879-8 (pbk: 0-8135-2880-1). Award-winning author Laura Hapke is perhaps the most prominent critic of literary representations of the American 'laborscape'....

A tough transition.
Byline: The Register-Guard President Bush's Commission on Social Security Reform made a persuasive case for adding private savings accounts to the Social Security system. It failed, however, to provide a politically and financially acceptable means of implementing any of the three privatization plans it outlined in its...

Evacuation plan readied for OFWs.
By GENALYN D. KABILING The Philippine government has prepared a contingency plan to evacuate over a million Overseas Filipino Investors (OFIs) in the Middle East in the event the United States retaliates against its enemies through military action. In a news briefing, Presidential spokesman Rigoberto Tiglao said...

A week in the life ... of the big bad nets.
ON the subject of media fairness, people who aren't remote-tossing conservatives often ask, "What do you mean, liberal bias?" In a nutshell, bias is all about selective storytelling. Which stories do you tell, and which do you bury in a drawer somewhere? As a story is assembled,...

DoLE bares P944-M jobs program.
Byline: E. T. SUAREZ The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) has allocated P944 million of its P4.5billion budget to generate employment, preserve jobs, and promote employment facilitation to help the administration achieve its goal of creating more than one billion jobs before the end of its...

Ople's youngest daughter new Labor Undersecretary.
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has tapped the youngest daughter and former chief of staff of the late Foreign Affairs Secretary Blas F. Ople as undersecretary of the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE). Labor Secretary Patricia Sto. Tomas said incoming Undersecretary Susan Ople will help develop and...

Public invocations ... (letters).
WHAT WAS the reaction of the students whose invitations Garret Keizer refused? ("No can do," Nov. 14). It was a very small honor but an honor nevertheless. How did the school teachers feel? Public prayer, including school prayer, has a bad name in part because so many...

Sources for more information.
Organizations AFL-CIO Public Policy Department 815 16th Street MW Washington, DC 20006 Voice: (202) 637-3907 Fax: (202) 508-6967 Email: tlee@aflcio.org Website: http://www.aflcio.org/ Contact: Thea Lee, Assistant Director Alliance for Responsible Trade 927 15th Street NW, 4th Floor Washington, DC 20005 Voice: (202) 898-1566 Fax: (202) 898-1612 Email: khk@developmentgap.org Website:...