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Sat, 07/09/2011 - 15:16 by Neka Sehgal
Amid a thunderous roar, the space shuttle Atlantis blasted off the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Friday, July 8, 2011 on its historic final mission into space.
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Mon, 05/23/2011 - 16:07 by Jamie Anderson
Honda workers in Japanese plants have been asked to take 14 days off in the coming months as production at these factories continues to be disrupted due to the earthquake and tsunami that rocked the country in March.
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Wed, 03/16/2011 - 14:49 by Yasser Ali
Workers working tirelessly at a tsunami-affected nuclear plant in Japan were asked to leave for a while when radiation levels began to peak. The circumstances suggest that the nuclear crisis in Japan is getting more serious with time.
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Fri, 12/03/2010 - 22:30 by Prince damin
Washington -- The rise of China has been good for American business and workers, U.S. Commerce Gary Locke says.
"China has lifted almost 200 million people out of poverty. And in the years ahead, hundreds of millions more Chinese will ascend into the middle class," Locke said at a U.S.-China conference in Washington Thursday, the Chinese government's Xinhua agency reported.
"The United States welcomes this growth because this is good for the people of China. ... It's good for the global economy and good for U.S. business and, ultimately, U.S. workers," Locke said.
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Wed, 11/24/2010 - 05:48 by Prince damin
Elyria, Ohio -- Police in Ohio said a suspicious pizza order led to the arrest of three teenagers by an officer disguised as a delivery man.
Workers at Marco's Pizza in Elyria said they received a suspicious call Saturday resembling a previous call where a female delivery driver was confronted by men armed with sticks when she arrived at the address, WKYC-TV, Cleveland, reported Tuesday.
"(Suspicious customer) called us three times," manager Ben Reppas said. "The second time he called he changed his address and gave another bogus (phone) number."
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Sat, 11/20/2010 - 22:29 by Prince damin
Milwaukee -- U.S. companies threatening to close plants have set workers back with two-tiered wage systems, a union official in Wisconsin said.
"This is absolutely a surrender for labor," Mike Masik Sr., a union leader for Harley-Davidson told the New York Times.
At General Motors Co., Chrysler LLC, auto parts maker Delphi and Caterpillar Inc. unions have agreed to two-tiered wage systems that could be permanent. Unlike the recession of the 1980s, recent concessions on wages at those companies have no end point, the Times reported Saturday.
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Sat, 11/20/2010 - 07:51 by Prince damin
Joliet, Ill. -- An Illinois roofers' union parked its inflatable rat outside of a Joliet church to protest the facility using non-union workers to do roof work.
The Rev. Matthew Robinson of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Joliet said members of the Local 11 roofers' union have been picketing in front of the church and placed a giant inflatable rat -- nicknamed Scabby -- in front of the facility, the Joliet Herald-News reported Friday.
"It's just ugly, and all people are seeing right now is a big yellow rat in front of our church," Robinson said. "Golly, we don't need that. That's not who we are."
Church members said the roof has been in need of work since it was damaged by a July fire caused by an electrical fire.
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Fri, 11/12/2010 - 09:40 by Prince damin
Bellevue, Wash. -- Union grocer workers in Washington State said 94 percent of voting members approved a strike over job cuts and low wages.
A strike would affect 25,000 grocery workers in QFC, Albertsons, Safeway and Fred Meyer stores, KOMO-TV, Seattle, reported Thursday.
QFC employee Janella Enamorado said, "We're working people, and we need something else than these cuts, cuts, cuts that they're bringing to us."
Scott Powers a spokesman for Allied Employers, which is representing the stores, said "I think we are ready to meet the needs of what the employee have. So I think we need to get back to the bargaining table and finish that process."
But union members say talks have stalled after nine months of negotiations.
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Sat, 10/30/2010 - 02:40 by Prince damin
London -- British soldiers serving in Iraq show fewer signs of stress than police officers, ER doctors and disaster workers, a U.K. study says.
Psychologists say just over one in five servicemen in Iraq showed signs of psychological distress while less than 4 percent showed symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, The Daily Telegraph reported Friday.
The levels are the same as service personnel in training and less that other high-stress occupations like law enforcement and emergency medicine, the study by researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London said.
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Wed, 10/27/2010 - 04:29 by Prince damin
Baltimore -- Former ESPN Zone employees claim they were underpaid after being laid off based on federal standards for companies with over 50 workers, court papers say.
The U.S. Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, commonly known as WARN, stipulates that workers in companies covered by the act be given 60 days notice before being laid off, The Baltimore Sun reported Tuesday.
Walt Disney Co., which owned the five ESPN Zone restaurants that were shuttered in June, has said it had met federal requirements when the business closed.
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Wed, 10/20/2010 - 06:54 by Morgan Housel
We've been writing a lot lately about whom and what to blame for sky-high unemployment. I've mentioned labor mobility and skills mismatch as factors. My colleague Ilan Moscovitz says it's mostly a lack of demand that's preventing employers from creating new jobs. Others have argued -- falsely, I think -- that high unemployment benefits are to blame. There's little clarity and even less consensus on this topic, which makes for good debates. |
Mon, 10/18/2010 - 07:53 by Prince damin
Chicago -- Workers at the Hilton Chicago struck over the weekend to protest the company's debt deal with the Federal Reserve, their union said.
The deal, under which the hotel chain is buying back millions of dollars in debt at a steep discount, has angered Unite Here Local 1, which has been in contract talks with Hilton for more than a year, the Chicago Tribune reported Saturday.
"They got all this money from the federal government, and yet they won't give us a contract," said Gloria King, one of the workers picketing the hotel.
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