- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who compiles, dispenses, and files newsstories and related copy to assist editorial personnel in broadcasting newsroom. Responsibilities include:
* Telephones government agencies and sports facilities and monitors other stations to obtain weather, traffic, and sports information.
* Telephones people involved in news events to obtain further information or to arrange for on-air or background interviews by news broadcasting personnel.
* Files and retrieves news scripts, printouts, and recording tapes.
* May make written copies of newsstories called in from remote locations.
* May record, edit, and play back tapes of newsstories to assist columnist/commentator, using recording and splicing machines and equipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who manages recreation facilities, such as tennis courts, golf courses, or arcade, and coordinates activities of workers engaged in providing services of facility. Responsibilities include:
* Determines work activities necessary to operate facility, hires workers, and assigns specific tasks and work hours, accordingly.
* Initiates projects, such as promotional mailing or telephone campaigns, to acquaint public with activities of facility.
* Discusses fees of facility with interested persons.
* Registers patrons and explains rules and regulations.
* Confers with patrons to resolve grievances.
* Hires workers, such as carpenters, plumbers, and electricians, to make needed facility repairs.
* Maintains financial records.
* Collects coins from arcade machines.
* Purchases items such as golf balls, tennis balls, and paper supplies.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs duties of drafter master title by drawing plans and details for structures employing structural reinforcing steel, concrete, masonry, wood, and other structural materials.
* Produces plans and details of foundations, building frame, floor and roof framing, and other structural elements.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who compiles weekly personnel assignment schedules for production department in manufacturing plant. Responsibilities include:
* Studies production schedules and staffing tables to ascertain personnel requirements.
* Determines and records work assignments according to worker availability, seniority, job classification, and preferences.
* Compiles and oversees in-plant distribution of work schedule.
* Adjusts schedules to meet emergencies caused by extended leave or increased production demands.
* Compiles annual seniority lists on which employees indicate vacation preferences and approves leave requests to prevent production losses.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sorts c.o.d. bills according to type of delivery or consignor and computes charges on bills and amounts collected. Responsibilities include:
* Sorts c.o.d.
* bills according to type of delivery or consignor, such as will-call parcel post, or store delivery.
* Computes total of bills and verifies total against accounting records.
* Calculates and records amount of money collected on delivery route for c.o.d.
* bills, using adding and calculating machines.
* May search customer records to correct addresses on misdirected packages (wrong-address clerk).
Industry:Professional careers
Contratto che un lavoratore era obbligato a firmare, con cui dichiarava che non si sarebbe iscritto ad un sindacato. Questa prassi divenne illegale nel 1932 con l'approvazione della legge Norris LaCuardia Act.
Industry:Labor
Definite negli Stati Uniti dal National Labor Relations Act e dal Taft Hartley Act come prassi di discrizionazione, coercizione ed intimidazione, vietate a dipendenti e dirigenti. La direzione non può formare unioni aziendali e avvalersi di tattiche coercitive per scoraggiare l'organizzazione di sindacati. I sindacati non possono costringere i lavoratori a iscriversi alle organizzazioni non di propria spontanea volontà.
Industry:Labor
Concetto secondo cui lo Stato è sovrano ed i dipendenti pubblici non avevano alcun diritto ad avanzare pretese nei suoi confronti. Nel 1949 un tribunale di New York disse: \"Tollerare o riconoscere qualsiasi combinazione di dipendenti del servizio civile del governo come organizzazione del lavoro o sindacato non solo è incompatibile con lo spirito della democrazia, ma è anche incoerente con qualsiasi principio su cui si fonda il nostro governo.
Industry:Labor
Legge statunitense nota anche come \"Wagner Act\", dal nome del principale promotore, il Senatore Robert Wagner di New York. Rappresenta un punto di svolta nell'atteggiamento governativo nei confronti delle relazioni di lavoro. La legge istituì un comitato detto National Labor Relations Board avente la funzione di garantire il diritto dei lavoratori di formare sindacati di propria spontanea volontà e di contrattare collettivamente con i datori di lavoro.
Industry:Labor
Impresa in cui ogni membro dell'unità di contrattazione deve diventare membro del sindacato dopo un certo periodo di tempo.
Industry:Labor
