Informal learning boosts on the job at Siemens plant study
A two year, 1.6 million study from the Center for Workforce Development finds workers learn most from informal education in cafeterias and hallways. At Siemens Power Transmission plant in Wendell North Carolina, managers are urged to accept chatter as training and to let it happen. The research involved 1000 workers across seven companies including Visteon, Motorola and Boeing, with over 70 percent sharing information and 55 percent seeking advice during a typical week.
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North Carolina
Barry Blystone
Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution
Wendell
N.C
Blystone
Bystone
Newton, Mass
U.S
Department of Labor
Larry Stewart
Visteon Automotive Systems
Lansdale, Pa
Motorola Inc
Schaumburg, al
Boeing Commercial Airplane Group
Seattle
Court Hears Scouts Lawsuit Over Gay Exclusion
California Supreme Court hears two discrimination cases against the Boy Scouts arguing the group is a business rather than a private club. Scouts contend their stance on morality and religion justifies expelling a gay man and atheistic youths. The cases question whether the Scout organization must follow state anti discrimination laws, with a decision due in 90 days.
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Boy Scouts
NAACP
Ku Klux Klan
George Davidson
California Supreme Court
Seven
Jon Davidson
American Civil Liberties Union
California
Timothy Curran
Michael
William Randall
Man to roll out his accordion permanently
Roy Bertelli, 87, dedicates a cemetery plot and mausoleum with his portrait and a 2000 pound granite tablet to his lifelong passion the accordion. He recalls loving the instrument since 1927 and once performed with Lawrence Welk. He owns four accordions and has recorded 1200 songs on 48 tapes for posterity.
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Springfield
Roy Bertelli
Bertelli
Lawrence Welk
Kennedy divorce approved before Kennedy death
Michael Kennedy and his wife Victoria Gifford Kennedy had a divorce petition approved by Judge David H Kopelman on November 28, but the divorce had not become final under Massachusetts 90 day rule and was nullified by his death in a ski accident on December 31. The division of assets remains in effect per the approved agreement. The Kennedys have three children and had separated in April after reports of a personal affair.
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Boston
Michael Kennedy
Boston Globe
Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy
Victoria Gifford Kennedy
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David H. Kopelman
Massachusetts
Boston University School of Law
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Kopelman
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