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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: United Steelworkers, Career and Workplace
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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 and Pollution Control, Waste Management Incorporated, 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: Prosecution, Civil Rights, Stranger Than Fiction, Parliament, 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: Prisons, The Miami Herald, Wars and Interventions, U.S. Military, Crime, Law and Justice
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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: Petroleum Industry, Buenos Aires (Argentina), Career and Workplace, Argentina, Labor Disputes
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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, Manama (Bahrain), Lobbying, Career and Workplace, 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: Television, Jimmy Fallon, Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation, Television Industry
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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: Emergency Incidents, Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom, Metal and Mineral, Personal Finance
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Palestinian inmate ends hunger strike
RAMALLAH, West Bank – A Palestinian inmate ended a prolonged hunger strike Tuesday after reaching a deal with Israeli military prosecutors for early release, his lawyer and family said. Samer Issawi, whose fast helped fuel weeks of protests in the...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Lawyers, West Bank, Crime, Law and Justice, Israel
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Garbage trucks roll, but labor strife still roils
Vindicator, Youngstown, OhioEven as workers for Allied Waste ended their strike and returned to their regular routes for garbage pickup, labor tension among the union members has not cooled down. Customers throughout the Mahoning Valley still waiting for their trash and...Tags: International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Washington, DC, Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Retirement
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Hunger strike figures hold as Southcom sends more medics to Guantanamo
Miami HeraldMIAMI _ The number of hunger strikers at Guantanamo held at just over half the prisoners Tuesday as the Southern Command said it was sending additional military medical forces to help out the 100-member Navy medical staff carrying out forced feedings....Tags: Prisons, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), The Miami Herald, Wars and Interventions, Central Intelligence Agency
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Richard Berman: Twinkies might die again because of union demands
First, the good news: The Twinkie will be back on store shelves by summer. The bad news is that Hostess' old unions — not content to have killed an American icon that employed 18,000 people, including those located at its multiple factories in...Tags: Voting, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Civil Rights, Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace
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