| Ducks will Jet-tison all comers
- Memo to all inveterate hockey poolsters: Pick anybody you want in your playoff draft. Select Bobby Orr, Gordie Howe, Wayne Gretzky, Guy Lafleur and Dit Clapper, for all I care. Just don't spend the rest of the spring telling people about your savvy picks. Nobody cares. Not even your mother. Thank you.
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Nigeria: Delta Steel - Housing As Part of Pension
Penultimate Saturday, the conference room of Delta Steel Company Owvian-Aladja, Delta State, was characterised by back-slapping, handshake and conviviality. On that day, retired and disengaged workers of the company as well as some of those still in service got keys to their houses. It was the culmination of a long drawn negotiation between the workers' union and the Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE), the Federal Ministry of Mines and Steel and the management of Delta Steel for the payment of gratuities and pension to retired and disengaged staff of the steel company. In the last couple of years since the company was privatised and sold to Global Steel Nigeria Ltd., all the groups have been in negotiation over how to settle former staff of the company. .
Last-minute mediation talks between union, DHBs
Last-minute talks between District Health Boards and the Medical Laboratory Workers Union to avoid a nationwide strike on Wednesday have begun in Auckland. Lab workers from the 16 DHBs are scheduled to walk off the job for 48 hours on Wednesday from 8am, and 24 hours on 24 April over a contract dispute. The strike will disrupt medical labs in hospitals, at the Blood Service, and in some community labs in the South Island. Life preserving services will be in place, but dozens of elective surgeries will be cancelled. A spokesman for the Blood Service, Paul Hayes, says the threat of strike action a worry, but business will continue in a reduced capacity. The union is seeking an improved pay scale, control over working hours, and to retain conditions for workers who are contracted out to private laboratories.
D-Link Unveils First All-In-One Wireless and Wired Smart Switch
D-Link, the end-to-end solutions provider for consumers and business, has introduced the market's first wireless smart switch for growing businesses looking for a cost-effective solution for network infrastructure with the added benefit of centralized access point (AP) management.
D-Link's DES-1228P, a high-performance, all-purpose 24-Port, 10/100 smart switch with Power Over Ethernet (PoE) and a friendly web-based graphical user interface (GUI), is a member of the D-Link Web Smart family. Existing DES-1228P customers will be able to add the wireless management functionality free of charge via a firmware upgrade.
The DES-1228P, ideally designed for businesses with up to 200 employees, features centralized AP management for easy deployment, configuration, replacement and monitoring of multiple APs.
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