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Workers say: Stop Bissell’s dirty work
November 13, 2009On Nov. 5, Cindy Marble and several of her co-workers were fired without any warning, after some of them had trained their replacements.
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S K Handtools workers end strike, save health care and jobs
November 12, 2009CHICAGO - After a 10-week strike to save their jobs, health care and union, seventy Teamster Local 743 members at S K Handtools voted 3 to 1 to accept the company offer and began returning to...
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Wall Street gets swine flu vaccine before others
November 9, 2009Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley were among the first employers in New York to receive shipments of the badly sought after H1N1 swine flu vaccine.
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Religion and the economy: A theologian challenges ‘status quo’
October 24, 2009A Texas theologian challenges the idea that Jesus Christ's teachings must be contorted into support for big business and the "status quo."
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‘Young workers: A lost decade’
September 1, 2009Something bad happened in the past 10 years to young workers in this country: Since 1999, more of them now have lower-paying jobs, if they can get a job at all; health care is a rare...
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