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Labor reawakens
This week, hundreds of Chicago workers organized a major labor strike, demanding a wage floor of $15 an hour and the right to unionize. Their protests come on the heels of the largest strike in the fast food industry's history, which took place in...
Tags: Walmart, Career and Workplace, Employment Opportunities, Labor Legislation, Food Industry
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Mariners fall to Rangers
Seattle TimesARLINGTON, Texas _ Kyle Seager insisted that confidence isn't sagging in his team's clubhouse despite all the non-contact of late when his team swings at the baseball. These Mariners are supposed to be able to hit the ball deeper, harder and more...Tags: Jeff Baker, Baseball, Max Scherzer, Kyle Seager, Yu Darvish
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American Crystal union members head back to work
MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) - Union members will soon head back to work at American Crystal Sugar plants in Minnesota, Iowa and North Dakota, but they say the sting of a 20-month lockout will make their return difficult both for them and the company. A...Tags: Unions, Career and Workplace, Elections, Politics, Labor Disputes
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Should U.S. close Gitmo prison?
President Obama said in a news conference this week that he was directing his staff to re-launch his effort to close the U.S. detention center for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and would look for allies in Congress to help. The prison...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, George W. Bush, Politics
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Strike on horizon for utility workers
Boston HeraldUnion utility workers in Massachusetts and Rhode Island voted overwhelmingly yesterday to authorize a strike against National Grid, citing concerns over the utility's low staffing levels, inadequate storm responses and ongoing payroll issues. "This vote...Tags: Career and Workplace, Punishment, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Fines
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Utility workers authorize strike against National Grid
Boston HeraldMembers of the Brotherhood of Utility Workers Union, comprised of six separate local unions in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, voted overwhelmingly today to authorize a strike against National Grid, citing concerns over the utility's low staffing levels,...Tags: Career and Workplace, Punishment, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Fines
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Union says U.S. Steel gives notice of lockout at Lake Erie
ReutersTORONTO, April 25 (Reuters) - U.S. Steel Corp has given workers at its Lake Erie facility in Canada notice of a lockout to start on Sunday at 9 a.m. EDT/1300 GMT, according to a letter posted on a union website. United Steelworkers Local 8782 voted on...Tags: Career and Workplace, United Steelworkers
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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: Career and Workplace, Environmental Issues, Waste Management Incorporated, Waste, Waste Management and Pollution Control
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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: Political Corruption, Prosecution, U.S. Department of State, Crime, Law and Justice, Human Rights
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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. Navy, The Miami Herald, Lawyers, U.S. Department of Justice, Prisons
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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: Argentina, Petroleum Industry, Career and Workplace, Employees, BP Plc
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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, Unions, Layoffs and Downsizing, Career and Workplace, Politics
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