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Memphis City Councilman wants legal action for trash pileup
Commercial AppealTrash has piled up for two weeks in parts of Memphis City Council member Harold Collins' district and he's now looking for legal solutions to force the company responsible for it to clean it up. Nearly 157 Memphis workers for Republic Waste Management...Tags: Waste Management Incorporated, Environmental Issues, Waste Management and Pollution Control, Career and Workplace, Waste
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Egypt president sees 'deep state' as enemy within
CAIRO — President Mohamed Morsi casts himself as a leader navigating a landscape bristling with conspiracies by corrupt businessmen and shadowy figures plotting from inside a vast bureaucracy his Islamist inner circle has been unable to tame....
Tags: Protest, Politics, Upper House, Cairo (Egypt), Egypt
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Guantanamo: 94 captives now on hunger strike
Miami HeraldThe U.S. military is now classifying 94 of the 166 captives at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo, a prison spokesman said Thursday, reporting that all of the hunger strikers are under lockdown in solitary cells or at the prison hospital. Seventeen of the...Tags: U.S. Military, Prisoners and Detainees, The New York Times, The Miami Herald, Labor Disputes
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Energy workers strike in Argentina's Santa Cruz province
ReutersBUENOS AIRES, April 25 (Reuters) - Energy workers went on strike on Thursday at three oil fields in Argentina's Santa Cruz province, which produces about 20 percent of the country's crude oil, a trade union official said. The protest over internal...Tags: Employees, Buenos Aires (Argentina), BP Plc, Argentina, China
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Strike threat by airline unionists
Gulf Daily News, Manama, BahrainUNIONISTS have threatened to strike unless Gulf Air halts a major restructuring plan that will see hundreds of people lose their jobs. The Gulf Air Trade Union (GATU) is planning to lobby Labour Minister Jameel Humaidan and parliament chairman Dr...Tags: Bahrain, Politics, Manama (Bahrain), Lobbying, Layoffs and Downsizing
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'Fashion Police' writers go on strike
Writers for "Fashion Police" have walked off the job. Writers on the E! Network cable show hosted by comedian Joan Rivers have gone on strike following a dispute over back wages. The Writers Guild of America, West did not immediately announce the...Tags: Jimmy Fallon, Entertainment, Writers Guild of America, Television Industry, Labor Legislation
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"Atlas Shrugged" evil alive and well
John Galt, the evil genius of Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged," is "alive and well" roaming the halls of Congress. A figment of Rand's imagination, Galt continues to do serious damage through any number of assorted tea party/GOP extremists,...Tags: Mitt Romney, Philosophy, Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, Career and Workplace
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HealthBridge Files For Bankruptcy Protection
The Hartford CourantFive Connecticut nursing homes which are run by HealthBridge Management have filed for bankruptcy protection. Those five homes employ workers represented by the Service Employees International Union, and the company's goal in filing for bankruptcy is to...Tags: Pension and Welfare, Politics, Labor Legislation, Bankruptcy, Career and Workplace
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Chicago museums reeling after building sprees
The turn of the millennium was a heady time for many Chicago cultural institutions. Cheap loans, high investment returns and swelling endowments spawned a slew of new attractions along the lakefront and around downtown. The Art Institute built its Modern...
Tags: Pension and Welfare, Michigan Avenue, Politics, Job Layoffs, Corporate Officers
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Employees Return To HealthBridge Nursing Homes After 8-Month Strike
The Hartford CourantMore than 600 workers at five HealthBridge nursing homes returned to work Sunday, eight months after they went on strike over pensions and health care costs. "It was OK … it was business as normal," Nicole Rattigan, who had been on strike since...Tags: Pension and Welfare, Companies and Corporations, Politics, Work Relations, Long Term Care
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Ports of L.A., Long Beach warn of delays if sequestration occurs
Operations at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach may slow if automatic spending cuts go into effect Friday, port officials said, as fewer U.S. customs officers would delay the flow of international cargo through the massive sea ports. Officials...
Tags: U.S. Coast Guard, Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry, Anheuser-Busch, Government Debt, U.S. Congress
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Thatcher critics recall labor battles, Irish strife [Talkback]
LONDON -- It perhaps goes without saying that the death of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher did not prompt universal mourning. She could be a polarizing figure, nowhere more than in working-class communities of northern England, Scotland and Wales,...
Tags: Politics, Explosions, Bombings, Labour Party (UK), Republic of Ireland
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