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• in Small Business
  Companies Offering Permanent Spots To Freelancers
  Instead of solely keeping balanced in-house workers in place, companies are beginning to levy the freelance work pool.
  by advertzones / on Sep 14, 2012
• in Sports
  From a Fan to NBA Players: Just Take the Darn Offer
  NBA Players Take the Offer!
  by abi3L / on Nov 15, 2011
• in Business
  Walmart Can Afford to Pay its Workers $12 Per Hour, Study Finds
  A small shift in wages at Walmart could have a significant effect on economic recovery
  by odanu / on Apr 19, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “labor”

 

• Excalibur Deal - May eNewsletter

  
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  Rates from: $21 per night Mays Bargain of the Month • Save up to 20% on room rates • Best rates starting from only $21/night • No minimum stay required • Hurry, this awesome offer ends at the end of May No you arent reading this deal wrong. We at VHS even had to double check to verify that these ...
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• Israeli Opposition Leader Meets With Abbas in Ramallah

  
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  Israeli Labor party leader Shelly Yachimovich. Israel’s Opposition leader Shelly Yachimovich (Labor), met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah Sunday, Israeli media has reported. The two discussed the situation in the Middle East and the possibility of progressing beyond the stalemate ...
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• This Day in Labor History: May 12, 1902

  
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  On May 12, 1902, coal miners in Pennsylvania’s anthracite fields went on strike. There were many strikes in the coal fields during the Gilded Age, but this one has special significance because the refusal of the industry to negotiate pushed the strike into the fall and placed urban Americans’ heating supplies in ...
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• College Grads Can Look Forward To Lots Of Job Openings — Unfortunately, No One’s Hiring

  
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  -David Rosenberg: A Bond Bull Turns Bearish -Wage Inflation? -Skills Versus Education -Kyle Bass and Japan -Tulsa, Atlanta, Nashville, and Brussels “The large shortfall of employment relative to its maximum level has imposed huge burdens on all too many American households and represents a substantial social cost. ...
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• Today in Labor History--May 12

  
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  May 12, 1856 – Trade unions in Victoria, Australia,demonstrated for the 8-hour day. (From the Daily Bleed ) May 12, 1902 –Anthracite coal miners went onstrike in Pennsylvania. (From the Daily Bleed ) James Connolly May 12, 1916 -- JamesConnolly, IWW organizer and Irish ...
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• The job fatality rate isnt budging, and no wonder, with penalties this low

  
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  When we think about workplace fatalities, its natural that we think about cases like the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh, which at this writing had caused more than 1000 fatalities . In the United States, we think about the West Fertilizer Co. explosion, which killed 14, including 10 firefighters. Or the Upper Big ...
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• The lesson of ‘Julius’

  
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  Remember last year when the Obama campaign came up with the idea for “Julia”, a fictional woman who was supposed to represent how Obama made life better for women everywhere? (You know, that phony, made-up ‘War on Women’ and all that.) I wrote about this  about a year ago. Well, one year later the good ...
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• Japan ruling party executive to keep visiting war shrine

  
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  The policy chief of Japan’s ruling party vowed on Sunday to keep paying homage at a controversial war shrine despite anger and diplomatic protests by China and South Korea. Nearly 170 Japanese lawmakers made a pilgrimage last month to the Yasukuni Shrine, a flashpoint in a bitter dispute between Japan and Asian ...
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• Major events in US labor history

  
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  1790 - The first textile mill, built in Pawtucket, RI, is staffed entirely by children under the age of 12. Lowell Mill workers (and their chaperone) 1834 to 1836 - Workers at the Lowell Textile Mills, mostly unmarried young girls and young women, institute “turnouts” protesting wage cuts that had been ...
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• Ugly budget pending

  
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  In the last week of April The Age reported that Prime Minister Julia Gillard had vowed that the May budget would not impose cuts that would "really hurt people" ... that would only a little be of hurting of people.   I cant remember the last time a Prime Minister had to damn with such feint praise their Treasurers ...
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• The missing class

  
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  Among the greatest tragedies of this decade is this: our unwillingness to differentiate those who make $39k from those who make $390k. Filed under: Reflections Tagged: class , Economics , labor , politics , Work
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• Same old, same old

  
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  Senior cabinet minister Greg Combet has attacked some of his Labor Party colleagues as whingers in an angry and expletive-laden speech to supporters and donors, expressing his frustration at insiders undermining the governments prospects in the September federal election.At a party fund-raising dinner last Monday, Mr ...
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• A Call On The Price of Uranium?

  
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  Interviewer:Before we talk about the potential of uranium shortages and the steep price rise in that energy source, could you explain how you got started with this idea, and what is the philosophy behind Strathmore’s acquisition program of uranium properties?Dev Randhawa:Several years ago, Strathmore Minerals ...
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• Republicans in the house put foreign governments above American People, Employers over Workers. Do Away with overtime.

  
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  ROLL CALL : This section of the paper never gets much attention, but should. It reflects the heart and soul of our political parties. The most stunning display of misplaced priorities took place in the House, where our Republican representatives ditched their constituents…hung em out to dry. Wisconsin State ...
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• Canadian Job Report

  
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  Canada’s economy added a modest 12,500 jobs in April, as more Canadians entered full-time work, which helped hold the unemployment steady at 7.2% according to data released Friday by Statistics Canada. Economists had predicted a gain of about 15,000 jobs in April, following a dismal drop the month before. The ...
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• New Wage Theft Law Would Target Somerville Employers

  
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  Somerville, Mass. - Somerville officials are considering adopting a new ordinance that would see employers guilty of wage theft lose or fail to gain licenses and permits issued by the city. The ordinance drafted by the city’s Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone came after Somerville residents and activists signed a petition ...
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• Social Networking and Its Effect on Race

  
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  The NY Times Opinionater has a piece from Nancy Dimatso (Rutgers Business) on the effect of social networking on black employees. In it she notes the importance of social networks--no suprise to those of us in the legal field--and how...
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• As Death Toll in Bangladesh Collapse Climbs Past 1,000, Another Factory Fire Claims 8 Lives

  
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  (Photo: IndustriAll Global Union) Originally posted at In These Times Bodies continue to pile up at Rana Plaza, once a powerhouse of Bangladesh’s garment industry, where more than 1,000 corpses have been unearthed since a factory collapse two weeks ago (and today, another survivor was discovered). Meanwhile, ...
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• Weak labor market awaits Class of 2013

  
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  By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON | Sat May 11, 2013 10:46am EDT (Reuters) – Stacey Kalivas should be celebrating her graduation from college later this week. Instead, the 22 year-old is getting ready to move back home with broken dreams and in debt. Kalivas is a member of the class of 2013, the fifth successive wave ...
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• Seeking Teachers’ Support, Mayoral Candidates Pledge Education Reform

  
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  At a forum on Saturday, several candidates said they would scrap signature policies of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, including his A-through-F grading system for schools. Read more: Seeking Teachers’ Support, Mayoral Candidates Pledge Education Reform
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