Labor News

Edwards won't attend big St. Paul Labor Day event
Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN - 18 minutes ago
A Labor Day picnic and concert will take place in St. Paul this year, but apparently without one of its headline speakers, former presidential candidate ...

Hospitals Announce Labor Web Site Now in Spanish
MarketWatch - 31 minutes ago
... Hospital today announced that http://www.stanfordpackardfacts.com, an online resource regarding labor representation, is now available in Spanish. ...

Crowell & Moring's Irvine Office Adds Labor and Employment Partner ...
MarketWatch - 1 hour ago
The moves come on the heels of significant growth in the firm's Labor & Employment Group, which has grown to more than 35 lawyers across five international ...

Temple Terrace woman arrested for stalking former co-worker in ...
Temple Terrace University Beacon, FL - 1 hour ago
By Debbie Carson, Staff Writer TEMPLE TERRACE — A Temple Terrace woman was arrested, accused of stalking and striking a former co-worker. ...

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Fewer travelers likely to fly over Labor Day
Los Angeles Times, CA - 2 hours ago
"We expect airplanes to be less full and skies to be less crowded this Labor Day holiday," said James C. May, president of the Air Transport Assn. trade ...
Fewer airline passengers expected over Labor Day holiday Bizjournals.com
Airline group expects Labor Day travel decline BusinessWeek
Labor Day Travelers Flying Less WJLA
United Press International - Montgomery Advertiser
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Medtronic Profit Rises on Stent Sales, Worker Firings (Update1)
Bloomberg - 2 hours ago
By Alex Nussbaum Aug. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Medtronic Inc., the world's second- largest device maker, said earnings beat analysts' estimates, driven by sales of ...

Pismo Beach: Labor Day family deal at the Cliffs Resort
Los Angeles Times, CA - 2 hours ago
Last year, I was in Pismo Beach, California, during Labor Day weekend, and it proved a fun getaway — just a few hours drive north of Los Angeles yet ...

When cheap IT labor costs an awful lot
InfoWorld, CA - 5 hours ago
This week's Off the Record author's company, not unlike many other organizations, wanted to pay less for Java programmers. So it outsourced the Java ...

Edwards expected to skip Minn. Labor Day event
USA Today - 5 hours ago
PAUL (AP) — Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards is expected to skip a Labor Day picnic and concert in Minnesota where he would have been ...
Kerry Breaks Silence on Edwards Affair, Feels 'Badly FOXNews
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Cheap labor? You get what you pay for
InfoWorld, CA - 9 hours ago
The promised savings of a cheap labor contract were negated when the first milestone was missed. You can't change horses in midstream and no one wants to ...

CPS Worker Suspended in Beaten Child Death Case
News10.net, CA - 1 hour ago
SACRAMENTO, CA - The social worker assigned to investigate the case of a 4-year-old whose mother's boyfriend is accused of beating him to death has been ...
CPS Admits Wrongdoing In Death Of 4-Year-Old Boy CBS13.com
CPS: More Could Have Been Done For Slain Boy KQCA, My58.com
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Maintenance Worker Arrested for Allegedly Placing Camera in Vent
MyFox Atlanta, GA - 1 hour ago
(MyFOX Atlanta) – DeKalb County authorities arrested a maintenance worker for allegedly placing a camera in a 'vent' of an apartment at Creekside Apartments ...

NY DOT worker dies after being hit by driver
Newsday, NY - 3 hours ago
NIAGARA, NY - Niagara County sheriff's deputies say a state highway worker died after being hit earlier in the day by a driver who lost control of his SUV ...
State DOT Worker Struck by Motorist Dies WGRZ-TV
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Clergy, Community Join Together to Support Sanitation Workers
MarketWatch - 3 hours ago
The rally, co-sponsored by the Arkansas Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice and Teamsters Local 878, was held in front of Waste Management's property in ...

USHCC Helps Guide Bill Promoting a Better Trained Labor Force
Hispanic PR Wire (press release), FL - 3 hours ago
New immigrants contributed almost 70 percent of the growth in the civilian labor force over the past three years. Between 2010 and 2030, first and second ...

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Labor Department Says Queens Sweatshop Supplied City's Top Retailers
NY1, NY - 4 hours ago
“We were told to lie to say we were working not for piece work, but for $7.15 an hour,” said the worker, “and we were told to minimize our working hours, ...
Queens Clothing Manufacturer Under Labor Investigation Associated Content
UNITE HERE Criticizes Apparel Industry Over Queens Sweatshop Scandal MarketWatch
Factory that made Macy's apparel accused of cheating workers Bizjournals.com
CNN - Forbes
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How to Make a Lazy Worker Move, or How to Move On From a Lazy Worker
U.S. News & World Report, DC - 8 hours ago
I have an employee who has been with us for 5 years. He has always been a so-so performer. He does his job, but does not go out of his way to contribute. ...

Labor woes hinder Petro-Canada refinery plans
Reuters - 10 hours ago
CALGARY, Alberta, July 24 (Reuters) - A lengthy labor dispute at Petro-Canada's (PCA.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) Montreal refinery has delayed plans to ...

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Cal/OSHA Cites and Fines Farm Labor Contractor in Death of 17-Year ...
MarketWatch - Jul 23, 2008
An investigation of Merced Farm Labor Contractor was initiated following the death of Maria Vasquez Jimenez who had been working nine hours in a Lodi ...
Labor Contractor Fined for Pregnant Teen’s Death CBS 47
State fines labor firm over death Stockton Record
State Socks Merced Farm Labor with Citations, Fines News10.net
Central Valley Business Times - Modesto Bee
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Jailed SF worker accused of setting network sabotage time bomb
CNET News, CA - Jul 23, 2008
Bail for a San Francisco city employee accused of hijacking the city's network remained at $5 million on Friday after prosecutors accused the worker of ...
SF: JAILED WORKER'S PASSWORD SECURES CITY COMPUTER NETWORK ... CBS 5
City of San Francisco management fails NetworkWorld.com
Disgruntled techie planned ultimate revenge, prosecutors say Scripps News
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