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The article criticizes the cost to businesses of filling up government forms for various agencies in compliance with various regulations in the U.S. First, among these works is complying with tax filing which alone costs billions. Then, there is the voluminous papers needed to be submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. As if not enough, businesses have to do the same thing in compliance with regulations of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and various agencies under the U.S. Department of Labor.

Forecasts several worldwide political issues and events in 1974. Estimate of the number of energy laws which would be proposed in the U.S. Congress; Theme of a two-week international conference in Brussels, Belgium; Importance of the Emergency Relief Act to U.S. electric workers; Opposition of the workers to the establishment of national daylight saving time in the U.S.

Presents news briefs in the U.S. as of April 1974. Bankruptcy of the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital; Efforts done by a secretary in the Austin, Texas Department of Health to ban cigars and cigarettes from the office in which she worked; Information on minimum wage laws in the country.

The article comments on several issues relevant to politics and government in Great Britain. Key issues discussed include the wave of socialist legislation on employment, land use, workers' benefits and taxation in the country, as well as the author's views on efforts by the Labor government to hurry the country towards complete socialism.

Presents information on some recent social developments in the Soviet Union. Issues related to the Corrective Labor Legislation; Details of the Soviet law; Regulation of basic rights and duties of prisoners.

The article profiles Polish labor union leader Lech Walesa. He can savor his triumph without too much modesty. Walesa is fighting for the cause of justice, of truth, and the natural rights of man in the country. From 1976 to 1980 Walesa spent much of his time on the run. No sooner did he get a job in a factory that he would start upholding the rights of the workers there. A change in personnel does not interest Walesa. What he wants is the freedom of labor unions. The author asserts that it is hard to predict the outcome of the fight of Walesa.

The article focuses on issues concerning fundraising by Republicans for conservative causes in the United States. It is reported that the Republican Party sends out several letters on conservative issues, with well known conservatives signing the letters. The party committees raise money on other issues too. It is informed that recently a letter from the Republican National Committee asked for funds to help defeat the labor law reform bill in the Senate. According to the author, while the GOP is raising money on conservative issues and then not using the money the way most contributors intended, it is having a damaging effect on the money-raising efforts of those conservative groups that are actually doing the work that produces victories.

The article reports on developments related to politics and government in the United States. It is observed that it is illegal to discriminate against Allan Bakke. Senators have converted the $1.2 billion Navigation Development Act into a $2.6 billion pork barrel. It was apparent after the sixth closure attempt that Big Labor did not have enough votes to break the Senate filibuster against the labor reform proposal.

The article scrutinizes the campaign of Elizabeth Dole for nomination as the Republican presidential candidate for 2000. Dole hesitantly explains that she opposes hate-crimes laws and supports the Ryan White bill. She is a potentially powerful candidate. Dole stumbled, however, when she was asked about her position on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. She does not know the details of the legislation. Waging a successful campaign will require her to triumph over another one of her instincts: toward utterly banal positions.

The article presents information on various socio-political developments in the United States. A recent state court decision in Massachusetts would allow private homes to be taxed at a lower rate than commercial property. The U.S. administration is considering some major changes in the Davis-Bacon Act, which provides that the highest wage scale prevailing in any community where public works are undertaken under federal contract be paid to all workers on such job.

The article explains that the right to sue employers under civil-rights laws is going to contradict the requirements of pubic safety in the United States. This is highlighted in the case of a former truck driver who sued Ryder Systems Inc. claiming that he was unfairly removed from his position after he suffered an epileptic seizure. The company claimed that his health condition constitute a safety hazard. During the time the employee was blocked from his job at Ryder, he was hired by another firm, had seizure while driving and crashed into a tree. The jury awarded the employee millions of dollars. This case highlights the INSET: From within..

Focuses on the Kennedy-Landrum-Griffin Law, governing labor in the U.S. as of 1960. Discussion on the alleged failure of the law to remove shortcomings in labor relations and alleviate defects in labor legislation; Privileges given by the federal government to trade unions; Information on the exclusive bargaining principle as a special privilege given to unions.

Focuses on the lawsuit involving Willard Yuna, owner of the Colonial Inn, and the labor union. Rejection to attend the meeting arranged by the Culinary Union; Agreement to the proposal of Frances Zelinsky, business agent for the Waitresses' Union Local No. 48, seeking permission for the run of his restaurant for a specified thirty-day period for the purpose of attempting to organize the employees; Judgment on the Colonial Inn case given by the Superior Court of California judge Preston Devine.

The article presents a discussion of the challenges faced by employers who wish to use test scores to inform their hiring decisions. There is a risk that any test could be perceived as biased against minorities, and result in lawsuits and fines. An instance in which a test of the mathematical abilities of prospective electricians was judged unfair to African Americans is cited as an example.

Presents information on various socio-political developments in the United States. Summon of Jimmy Hoffa, the business agent for Teamsters Union, before Senate investigators last week to testify on union corruption and proposed labor legislation; Information on the interim report of the Cabinet Committee on Price Stability for Economic Growth, headed by Vice President Richard Nixon; Information on a research that shows that a plant grows faster if one prays over it from day to day.

Presents information on a law introduced by the British government regarding price-fixing and open competition. View of the Conservatives on the act that denounces the restrictive measures by which employers secured the maximum profit for themselves with the minimum efficiency and effort; Opinion of Justice Richard Devlin that his decision regarding the price-fixation would have adverse effects on an industry already in difficulties; Report that the law permits the continuance of monopoly practices which can be shown to be in the public interest; Effects of the law on cotton mills and on the general public; Statement that a large number of the British working class have come to believe that a job is an end-in-itself, not to be judged by the nature or quality or amount of the work that goes with it.

Focuses on the revised Kennedy-Ives Labor Bill. Opinion of U.S. Department of Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell on the bill; Implication of the bill for labor unions; Effect of the bill on union shop.

Deals with various political issues from around the world as of May 1973. Decision of the city commission of Birmingham, Michigan to vote unanimously to direct the city administration to draw up an ordinance requiring all the cats in town to wear a little bell that will warn birds they are coming; Overview of the labor contract between Schaefer Brewing and its employees; Letter written by Pyotr Yakir to physicist Andrei Sakharov, accusing himself of calumnious and anti-Soviet activities.

Comments on the rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court on several constitutional cases in the country in 1971. Position of the Court in a law concerning the draft system in wars; Importance of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to job tests given to employees in the country; Comments on the ban in the showing of erotic movies in the republic.

Discusses the unsoundness of labor law and law enforcement in the U.S., with reference to the strike of General Electric Co. (GE). Demand of GE's labor unions for higher wages, with increases fixed now for the second and third years; Opinion of the National Labor Relations Board that GE is not bargaining wages in good faith as required by the Taft-Hartley Act; Interpretation of the one-sided compulsion for employers to bargain collectively, as an obligation to make concessions.

Reports that U.S. Senator Everett Dirksen's victory in the struggle over Section 14 (b) of the Taft-Hartley Act, which permits several states to adopt right-to-work laws, contains many glad portents for conservatives. Effort of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson to repeal the Section 14 (b); Support given by the Labor Party to the repeal effort; Assessment of the economic performance between the right-to-work states and the states without right-to-work laws; Motives of labor leaders to restrict individual workers in a plant from being able to bargain for themselves.

Focuses on political developments in the U.S. Reasons for choosing the name of "John" by saints; Reasons for revocation of the right-to-work law by the State of Indiana; View of the Democrats on the revocation of the law by the legislature; Information on the "International Cooperation Year" held by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions to examine the requirements for peace; Analysis of the causes for the growing suspicion and friction between U.S. President Andrew Johnson and the press; Report that the U.S. Business-Industry Political Action Committee has announced plans for the creation of Businessmen's Political Committees in each of the fifty states, whose job will be to direct and coordinate community business support for favored congressional candidates during campaigns.

This article focuses on relations of the British Government with the trade unions. The Labor government had negotiated a so-called "social contract," with trade unions. Under the contract, the unions could ask for only one increment in 12 months. This contract was made to lessen their wage demands in return for a package of pro union, anticapitalist legislation. Now the government has asked for the Phase III of the contract. But, this time, trade unions are not ready. They don't want another political deal. The coal-miners voted to seek a 90 percent wage increase from November 1, and the Transport and General Workers' Union voted against accepting any further pay curbs. The contract has been unable to prevent further inflation in the nation. The Government says that if the Phase III is not agreed by the unions, it will vote not adjust the pay as per the inflation.

The article ponders on developments related to employment laws and legislation in the U.S. in September 1976. Any legislative bill may be considered a jobs bill because any piece of legislation was considered to be related to employment. The U.S. Congress overrode U.S. President Gerald Ford's veto of a jobs bill. It was actually a pork-barrel bill to construct more government office buildings, a bill to bail out those over-taxed communities which did not succeed in reducing the unemployment rate, and a bill concerning water pollution.

The article comments on the pledge of U.S. President Bill Clinton in his State of the Union message to end welfare by employing welfare recipients. He added that the work should be in the private sector by preference, but in community service. This means that President Clinton plans to shift people from welfare to welfare jobs. An example with federally sponsored make-work is given in the form of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act. The unions' fear of competition prevented the program from progressing until it was ended by former U.S. President Ronald Reagan.

The article discusses how the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between the U.S., Mexico and Canada will act as the transforming catalyst of Mexico's economy and society. NAFTA will lock in Mexico's liberalizing reforms, raise standards of labor, health, and environmental protection, and pave the way for real democracy. But most observers believe that these reforms are entrenched anyway. A professor believes that the economic reforms were largely inevitable. To sum up, NAFTA would benefit the government. Whether it would on balance benefit Mexico depends on whether it becomes primarily a free-trade deal or an engine of regulation.

Presents information on socio-political developments around the world. Report that to West Coast union men suing for damages as a result of their ouster from International Union of Machinists for advocating Right-to-Work laws, have lost their case; Description of an agreement reached by De Beers for diamond production in the Soviet Union; Concerns regarding the dismissals of German nationals from British firms and boycott of West German goods; Opinion that despite behind-scenes pressure from Havana, Mexican President Lopes Mateos will not visit Cuba during his current six-nation Latin American tour.

Presents news briefs on the U.S. politics as of June 22, 1957. First union to act on the Fifth Amendment policy adopted by the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations in February; Approval process for the Natural Gas bill; Donations received by the Joe McCarthy Memorial Fund in honor of the Senator.

Presents information on the activities of the U.S. Republican Party to promote its election campaign. Comments of Michigan Governor George Romney on the policy of the U.S. towards Vietnam; Proposal of Romney for the use of "necessary" force to blockade the supply lines from North Vietnam; Effect of the proposal on the election campaign of Romney; Information that Romney consistently assails the labor legislation that creates union monopolies; Criticism of the policy of President Lyndon Baines Johnson towards Vietnam by Romney; Views of Senator Mark Hatfield in opposition to the Johnson policy in Vietnam; Emphasis of Senator Peter Dominick of Colorado, on the continuing use of Cuba as a base for subversion of the Western Hemisphere.