BRIEFCASE MARKET WORKERS VOTE ON CONTRACT.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services BUENA PARK - Ralphs, Albertson's and Vons employees began voting Thursday on a final contract offer amid predictions that two-thirds will reject it, authorizing a strike that could begin by Saturday, a representative said. The voting will continue through today, and on Friday, the supermarket employers and representatives of the seven United Food and Commercial Workers The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union is a labor union representing approximately 1.4 million workers in the United States and Canada in many industries, including agriculture, health care, meatpacking, poultry and food processing, manufacturing, textile and locals will meet with a federal mediator at local offices of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) is an independent agency of the U.S. government that seeks to prevent or settle disputes between labor unions and management that affect interstate commerce. . If a strike is authorized, union leaders will decide which of the companies will be targeted, according to Anreder. Some of the main issues are wages, whether ``new hires'' would work for less than other employees under a ``two-tier'' system, and whether employees will have to take on more of the financial burden of health care costs. Williams to head Ascent Media unit SANTA MONICA - Liberty Media Corp. named Kenneth S. Williams president and chief executive of its Ascent Media Group. Williams joined the post-production and media-services unit as chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. in August 2002. In a news release Wednesday, Liberty Media said Senior Vice President Bill Fitzgerald also will remain chairman of the Ascent Media unit. Prior to joining Ascent Media Group, Williams was president of Technicolor Digital Cinema LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , a venture between Technicolor and Qualcomm Inc. Do-not-call list taking numbers WASHINGTON - The national do-not-call list will resume accepting phone numbers today from people who do not want to be bothered by telemarketers. The Federal Trade Commission shut down new registration last week after a federal court ordered the agency to stop operating the list of more than 52 million phone numbers. But the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver temporarily blocked the lower court's decision Tuesday, allowing the registry to restart. Late Saturday, people who registered before Aug. 31 can file complaints about telemarketers at the same Internet site and toll-free number. Judge won't delay Martha civil case NEW YORK - Saying Martha Stewart is no John Gotti, a judge presiding over civil lawsuits against the style maven is refusing prosecutors' request to delay the civil litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. despite claims it could damage a criminal obstruction of justice A criminal offense that involves interference, through words or actions, with the proper operations of a court or officers of the court. The integrity of the judicial system depends on the participants' acting honestly and without fear of reprisals. case. In public documents obtained Wednesday, U.S. District Judge John E. Sprizzo ruled that prosecutors cannot stop civil lawyers from interviewing 15 witnesses despite claims that it will give Stewart's defense lawyers an unfair advantage in the criminal case. Gotti presided over the Gambino crime family The Gambino Crime Family is one of the "Five Families" that controls organized crime activities based in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia (or Cosa Nostra). before he was successfully prosecuted on charges that put him in prison for life. He died last year. Stewart has been charged with obstruction of justice and securities fraud for allegedly selling shares of ImClone Systems Inc. stock Dec. 27, 2001, because she had been illegally tipped that the family of ImClone founder Sam Waksal was planning to sell shares, and then lying about it. She has pleaded not guilty. Jurors get a look at Tyco document NEW YORK - Jurors got their first glimpse of a document prosecutors say led to the disclosure that two Tyco International executives had looted the company of hundreds of millions of dollars. The document was introduced Wednesday at the trial of L. Dennis Kozlowski, the company's former CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , and Mark Swartz, its ex-chief financial officer, who are accused of stealing $600 million from the company to finance ducal du·cal adj. Of or relating to a duke or duchy: a ducal estate. [Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin duc lifestyles. The document, dated Dec. 21, 2001, shows that former Tyco board member Frank E. Walsh Jr. was paid $10 million for brokering Tyco's $9.5 billion purchase of CIT n. 1. A citizen; an inhabitant of a city; a pert townsman; - used contemptuously. Which past endurance sting the tender cit. - Emerson. Group Inc. and that he received 50,000 shares of CIT stock for 34,000 Tyco shares. |
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