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Labor, allies urge ‘development bank’ to create jobs
May 29, 2009The decline in initial claims for jobless pay announced by the U.S. Labor Department this week was greeted as a “good sign” by Heidi Shierholz, a researcher at the Economic Policy Institute. But it only underlines...
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WORLDNOTES, Venezuela, Iraq, Myanmar, Spain, Nigeria, Cuba
May 29, 2009Venezuela: Nationalizing key industries In line with bringing strategic industries under state control, the Venezuelan government last week announced plans to nationalize a gas compression plant, the Guyana Steelmaking Complex, two iron producing facilities, a briquetted...
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Air traffic controllers, pilots see better skies ahead
May 29, 2009Already hopeful because of President Obama’s decision to put former Airline Pilots Association President J. Randolph Babbitt in charge of the Federal Aviation Administration, the nation’s air traffic controllers are finally on their way to getting...
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Hartmarx workers: Our jobs are worth fighting for
May 29, 2009DES PLAINES, Ill. — Workers boarded a bus this morning at the Hartmarx Corp. factory here, on their way to protest in front of a new Target store in Waukesha, Wis. The Hartmarx workers, represented by...
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Anti-union bill defeated in Missouri
May 29, 2009ST. LOUIS -- The fight to pass the Employee Free Choice Act recently won a victory here in Missouri. House Joint Resolution 37, better known as Save Our Secret Ballots, went down in defeat when the...
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