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UPDATE GAO: Labor Department failed miserably in enforcing wage laws
March 27, 2009Original source:UPDATE: Labor Secretary Hilda Solis announced the department’s Wage and Hour Division will add 250 new investigators, a staff increase of more than a third. The agency already has begun the process of adding 150...
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Women and men: equality drags its heels
March 27, 2009Translated by Karen Grimwade (l'Humanite) Achieving equality between women and men remains a struggle. In the family, at work or in politics, discrimination persists. Despite the fundamental progress women have fought hard to achieve over the...
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Mining firms ‘cheat Africa out of millions’
March 27, 2009Original source: Anti-povert groups revealed on Wednesday that mining transnationals routinely deprive African countries of huge amounts of tax revenue that could be used to boost social development. Investigators found that mineral-rich countries are losing tens...
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Webcams show Bald Eagle hatchlings
March 27, 2009A webcam at the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center in Virginia caught the hatching of two Bald Eaglets born six days apart late last month, according to the National Wildlife Refuge System's website. A second...
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Labor to Big Biz: You wont derail employee free choice!
March 26, 2009The labor movement remains undaunted in its push for the Employee Free Choice Act despite the defection of Pennsylvania’s Arlen Specter, the only Republican member of the Senate who had supported the measure. Specter announced March...
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