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My Latest Grievance stars the beguiling teenager Frederica Hatch, the "Eloise of Dewing College " Born and raised in the dormitory of this small women's college and chafing under the care of "the most annoyingly evenhanded parental team in the history of civilization," Frederica is starting to feel that her life is stiflingly snug. That all changes with the arrival on campus of a new dorm mother, the glamorous Laura Lee French, the frenetic center of her own universe..
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Learn how to effectively resolve management-employee disputes at the settlement stage and during arbitration by becoming familiar with the criteria and prior arbitration rulings that arbitrators rely on in resolving grievance issues.The easy-to-use Grievance Guide summarizes thousands of real-life arbitration awards to illustrate the factors arbitrators consider when ruling on management-employee disputes.Extensive Additions and Revisions! The updated Twelfth Edition has been extensively revised, with significant updates and changes to chapters on:Damaging Employer Property,Dishonesty and Theft,Electronic Communications and Computers,Family and Medical Leave New Chapter Health Care Benefits,Incentive Pay,Seniority,Smoking Restrictions,Subcontracting and Outsourcing,Work Hours and Schedules.The editors give you a complete picture, topic by topic, of the precedents and guidelines neutrals are using to address grievance issues today.Helpful overviews of the many topics covered in the guide and citations to the full text of the arbitration cases help you to understand and properly handle numerous types of grievable issues.Grievance Guide brings you in a single, easy-to-use handbook all the most important labor arbitration decisions that have been collected, digested, and expanded upon in BNA s Human Resources Library, the complete, must-have resource for HR professionals..
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Penzler Pick, April 2000: The texture of America runs through the novels of the pseudonymous K.C. Constantine, whose original tales of police chief Mario Balzic and the faded industrial reality of his fictional hometown, Rocksburg, Pa., have given way to cases featuring a younger cop, "Rugs" Carlucci, in the same setting. Both men are supremely decent public citizens performing an almost thankless job, tireless soldiers in not just a perpetual battle against law-breakers but also ongoing skirmishes of class warfare against which their skills unfortunately count for less.

As Constantine fans (and I am one of long standing) already know, the mystery plot is never the reason to come to this series. While the plots are fine, and usually compelling, it is because of the often achingly alive characterizations, the glimpses into soul and spirit, that one reads this writer. His blue-collar milieu offers a variant on the "down these mean streets" exhortation that Raymond Chandler could never have envisioned. While Chandler meant the detective in the crime story should be a figure not involved in the artificial precincts of ersatz English manor houses and rural vicarages, he certainly never was imagining a hero like Ruggiero Carlucci, struggling to solve a murder while locked in daily conflict with the increasingly demented mother he lives with. Rugs--neither martyr nor saint, but exhibiting aspects of both--is simply a man who's trying to do not just his job but also his duty as a son. In Grievance, Mrs. Ruggiero is now herself engaging in mayhem, with Rugs twice in need of hospital attention as a result of her uncontrollable violent impulses.

There is, as well, an actual murder case demanding Rugs's official attention: the magnate who had allowed his steel plant to be closed, shattering hundreds of local lives, has been found shot to death. There are so many suspects who would have been happy to see him dead that Rugs isn't able to eliminate anyone. It's all in a day's work, even if it means brushing up against the kind of personal pain with which the suffering Rugs is all too familiar. Grievance is pure Constantine, and that's saying plenty of praise in just two words as he somehow remains below the radar of even sophisticated mystery readers as the best unknown crime writer in America. --Otto Penzler.
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Daniel Clark demonstrates the dramatic impact unionization made on the lives of textile workers in Henderson, North Carolina, in the decade after World War II. Focusing on the Harriet and Henderson Cotton Mills, he shows that workers valued the Textile Workers Union of America for more than the higher wages and improved benefits it secured for them. Specifically, Clark points to the importance members placed on union-instituted grievance and arbitration procedures, which most labor historians have seen as impediments rather than improvements.

From the signing of contracts in 1943 until a devastating strike fifteen years later, the union gave local workers the tools they needed to secure at least some measure of workplace autonomy and respect from their employer. Union-instituted grievance procedures were not without flaws, says Clark, but they were the linchpin of these efforts. When arbitration and grievance agreements collapsed in 1958, the result was the strike that ultimately broke the union. Based on complete access to company archives and transcripts of grievance hearings, this case study recasts our understanding of labor-management relations in the postwar South..
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The 'Record Book of Complaints', from the office of the governor-general (beylerbey) of Rumelia, is an exceptional manuscript of the Ottoman archive. It offers a unique insight into the experience of Ottoman administration in the most important province of Ottoman Europe, Rumelia. Containing the orders given by the beylerbey as a consequence of petitions and grievances submitted by members of the population on a variety of problems, this manuscript casts light on administrative and judicial institutions and practices linked to the office of the beylerbey. For the first time, this important document has been translated into English and its original facsimile is reproduced. Additionally, the author provides a concise introduction to the historical context of the 'Record Book of Complaints'. This book is the first volume to appear in the Ibrahim Pasha Fund of Egypt Series, a sub-series of the Royal Asiatic Society Books series..
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