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• ups top pay vs usps top pay

  
  Brown Cafe - UPS info for UPSers — Authority: 154
  I was just wondering who makes more an hour, a ups driver or a usps mail carrier? I know a ups driver makes 30 bucks an hour top pay after three years of driving. which is awesome pay for the hard work. And the post office starts a part time Rural carrier about 18.24 an hour to start. I dont know how much a full ...
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• Advantages of a Trade Union

  
  Win My Ex Back — Authority: 458
  One of the most vital decisions you will ever make in regards to your work would be whether or not you should join a trade union. Trade Unions are groups that aim to protect the rights of workers and to ensure that they are not exploited. Its no secret that some employers consider these organizations to be the scourge ...
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• Union and Whistleblower Complaint Documents SEIU Ballot Fraud

  
  Big Government — Authority: 811
  From the National Union of Healthcare Workers : Today’s  Wall Street Journal and  Fresno Bee report that SEIU engaged in illegal threats, ballot-tampering, and other serious violations of election rules during a June union election for 10,000 homecare providers in Fresno, according to voters and union ...
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• Largest gene study of childhood IBD identifies 5 new genes

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 622
  In the largest, most comprehensive genetic analysis of childhood-onset inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), an international research team has identified five new gene regions, including one involved in a biological pathway that helps drive the painful inflammation of the digestive tract that characterizes the disease.
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• Get them off the human trafficking bus

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 605
  From McCann Kenya comes a visually-compelling and direct message to stop human trafficking, especially of children. The public awareness campaign through transit ads serve to spread the message quickly, and with a visual connect that is readily comprehensible, action-inducing, agitating, and graphic as any visual ...
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  The Economic Populist - Speak Your Mind 2 Cents at a Time — Authority: 588
  
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• Fact Sheet: The Worker, Homeownership, and Business Assistance Act of 2009

  
  Docuticker — Authority: 153
  Fact Sheet: The Worker, Homeownership, and Business Assistance Act of 2009 Source: White House, Office of the Press Secretary Today, President Obama signed legislation to help create jobs by providing tax cuts for homebuyers and businesses, while providing much-needed support for workers who are still struggling ...
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• Day Off

  
  JEDDAH DAILY PHOTO JOURNAL — Authority: 128
  Saudi Arabia has a large population of foreign workers that make up the hard labor force. Many workers are given Fridays off from work. The weekend in Saudi Arabia is on Thursday and Friday. Friday is the holy day when Muslim men are expected to go to attend prayers at the mosque, although many attend prayers every ...
  9 hours ago

• The Changing Face of Labor

  
  The Global Sociology Blog — Authority: 135
  The invaluable Center for Economic and Policy Research has issued an interesting report looking at the state of unionization in the United States over the past 25 years. The Changing Face of Labor, 1983-2009 I especially like this graph: Unsurprisingly, there are also major changes in the racial and ethnic ...
  10 hours ago

• Labor Supply and Demand

  
  The Global Sociology Blog — Authority: 135
  Via Paul Kedroski from Infectious Greed : The situation seems especially bad for Detroit whereas DC and Baltimore hardly seem affected (could be the political world, government, think tanks and lobbying firms have hardly been affected and the disadvantaged areas are, well, still disadvantaged). Overall not a ...
  10 hours ago

• Labor Dispute In Hangzhou Concerns Chinas Trade Unions

  
  ChinaCSR.com — Authority: 432
  The All-China Federation Of Trade Unions says it is deeply concerned with the mistreatment that Wang Hongli, a female employee in Hangzhou, received when she asked her employer for her salary. Li Shouzhen, a spokesperson of ACFTU, stressed that both the trade union departments of Zhejiang province and Hangzhou have ...
  11 hours ago

• SEIU President Andy Stern Discusses Health Care, Obama, ACORN

  
  Big Government — Authority: 811
  SEIU President Andy Stern, took a couple of minutes to discuss with us recent developments in the Health Care debate, his support for a public option in the bill and the mistakes committed by ACORN.
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• Compelling public employee to answer potentially incriminating questions without formal immunity grant -- Certiorari Denied

  
  Adjunct Law Prof Blog — Authority: 422
  Certiorari has been denied in a case in which the California Supreme Court held that a public employee may be compelled by threat of job discipline to answer potentially incriminating questions about the employees job performance, at least where the...
  14 hours ago

• Three sentenced in kickback scheme

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 166
  A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a former high-ranking union official and two other men to probation and temporarily barred them from holding labor positions for their roles in a scheme to trade money and gifts for construction contracts. U.S. District Court Judge William E. Smith gave Nicholas Manocchio, a ...
  14 hours ago

• Union Retirees Celebrate Labor History in New Play

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 642
        In the midst of the worst economic crisis since the 1930s, two Missouri union retirees are stepping back into history to look at the lessons of the Great Depression in a new play. This weekend and next weekend, “ 1937! One Hell of a Year ” is playing at the Just Off Broadway Theatre in Kansas ...
  16 hours ago

• Getting Cousin Marriage on the Legislative Agenda

  
  Corrente — Authority: 623
  How can we get repealing bans on first cousin marriage on the US legislative agenda? I think it would clearly help in getting started to consider why it has not already been raised as an issue, given facts like that no other Western country prohibits it and that the genetic arguments have been shown to be hollow. ...
  17 hours ago

• Peru: Blind Lawyer Strives to Be Judge

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 725
  Edwin Béjar Rojas is a 30 year-old lawyer, and resident of the city of Cusco, Perú. Since the age of 17, Mr. Béjar has been dealing with visual impairment, yet that has not been an obstacle for him to achieve important goals in his professional life. He graduated first of his class from San Antonio Abad ...
  18 hours ago

• Tripodi tipped out in Rees reshuffle

  
  Larvatus Prodeo — Authority: 584
  It’s been a big weekend at the annual NSW State Labor conference, with embattled Premier Nathan Rees winning the right to choose a cabinet of his own making. A ministerial re-shuffle could be on the cards in New South Wales, with the Premier Nathan Rees yesterday given the power to sack ministers. Nathan Rees ...
  19 hours ago

• Rolls-Royce establishes presence in Qatar Science and Technology Park

  
  PlaneTalking.com — Authority: 144
  Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has signed a tenancy agreement with the Qatar Science and Technology Park (QSTP).  In support of Qatar’s mission to create a hub for technology development, education and research in the region, this initiative will provide a focal point for activities to develop ...
  19 hours ago

• Policing housemaids in Bahrain

  
  IntLawGrrls — Authority: 481
  (My thanks to IntLawGrrls for the opportunity to contribute this guest post on my article published at 49 British Journal of Criminology 165 (2009)) Foreigners working as housemaids in Bahrain continue to face a Catch-22, as Ive described in my recent article, Policing Housemaids: The Criminalization of ...
  19 hours ago

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