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President Obama: Sign the Executive Order That Would Give 2,000,000 Federal Workers a Living Wage ACTION
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: federal employees, living wage, usa, obama, economy, labor, money )

Nancy
- 1 day ago - campaigns.dailykos.com
With over 2,000,000 workers receiving poverty-level wages, the federal government is by far the largest employer of low paying jobs in the country. It exceeds McDonald's (600,000) and Walmart (900,000) combined.
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Apple Dodges Billions In Taxes
Business  (tags: americans, business, corruption, corporate, dishonesty, economy, ethics, finance, government, investments, investors, usa, news, labor, law, marketing, money, society )

Robert
- 1 day ago - businessinsider.com
Apple's global cash tax rate was only 9.8%. It paid $3.3 billion of cash taxes on profits of $34 billion. (Cash taxes are the taxes Apple actually paid, as opposed to the "tax" line that appears on the income statement.)
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Tell Republicans: Ending Overtime Pay Is Unacceptable ACTION LINK
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: republicans, overtime pay, business, labor, law, politics, americans )

Nancy
- 9 days ago - care2.com
In a shocking new salvo in their war on workers, House Republicans have passed a bill that repeals mandatory overtime pay.
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United States Seeks to Protect Worker Rights Under US-Bahrain Trade Agreement
World  (tags: society, politics, usa, government, labor, law, abuse, business, corporate, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', 'HUMANRIGHTS!', middle-east, humanrights, HumanRights, GoodNews, freedoms, ethics, world )

JL
- 11 days ago - dol.gov
he request follows a December 2012 report by the U.S. Department of Labor that highlighted labor issues stemming from the Government of Bahrain's response to civil unrest in early 2011 in Bahrain and recommended actions to address those issues.
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Video:Charts: Why You're in Deep Trouble If You Can't Afford a Lawyer
Business  (tags: abuse, americans, culture, crime, dishonesty, ethics, family, freedoms, government, law, politics, rights, society, safety, women, police, congress, economy, propaganda, SupremeCourt, usa, labor, investments, humans, corruption, consumers, americans, abus )

JL
- 12 days ago - motherjones.com
Fifty years after the groundbreaking "Gideon" ruling, public defenders are overworked, underpaid--and America's poor are paying the price.
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TAKE ACTION NOW! THERE'S SOMETHING ROTTEN IN THE U.S. TOMATO INDUSTRY
Business  (tags: corporate, dishonesty, business, abuse, politics, exploitation, minimum wage workers, corporate corporate election spending, labor, usa, ethics, corruption, usa, news )

Cal
- 14 days ago - e-activist.com
Florida's tomato farms supply 50% of all U.S. fresh tomatoes but have also been called America's 'ground zero for slavery.' Countless workers held against their will, threatened with violence and forced to haul hundreds of heavy tomato buckets a day for
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New Report: Taxpayers on the Hook When Corporate Giants Dump Workers Onto Medi-Cal(Action)
Business  (tags: dishonesty, corporate, abuse, americans, business, economy, ethics, finance, government, investing, investments, law, labor, lies, money, society, usa, wal-mart )

JL
- 14 days ago - calaborfed.org
Now a new report from the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research shows just how widespread the problem is, projecting that as many as 380,000 workers for big companies will end up on the state's Medi-Cal program by 2019.
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GOP Seeks Alternative to Overtime Pay
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: politics, republicans, usa, labor, overtime pay, compensation )

Cal
- 16 days ago - news.yahoo.com
It seems like a simple proposition: give employees who work more than 40 hours a week the option of taking paid time off instead of overtime pay.
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TAKE ACTION NOW! Walmart & Other American Retailers: Ensure Basic Safety & Human Rights for Workers in Bangladesh
Business  (tags: SAFETY CONDITIONS, safety conditions, labor, Bengladesh factory collapse, world, corporate, corruption, ethics, business, politics, news )

Cal
- 22 days ago - org.credoaction.com
Take immediate steps to deploy safety improvements in your supplier factories by joining the legally binding Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Agreement and pay the compensation owed to injured workers and the families of workers killed while sewing yo
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MacIver Institute Ideologues Manage to Turn Lemonade Into Lemons
Business  (tags: corruption, dishonesty, americans, ethics, lies, media, politics, propaganda, republicans, usa, labor, society, corruption, economy, government )

JL
- 24 days ago - prwatch.org
So how close is Walker to his pledge to create 250,000 jobs? The Capital Times ran the numbers correctly, and their data count indicates that Wisconsin has 64,500 more jobs in February 2013 than it did in January 2011.
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Chocolatier Mondelez Pledges to Aid Women Farmers
Business  (tags: abuse, americans, business, consumers, corporate, dishonesty, ethics, farming, society, usa, world, news, labor, humanrights, HumanRights, 'HUMANRIGHTS!' )

JL
- 25 days ago - bloomberg.com
Mondelez International Inc., (MDLZ) the world's biggest chocolatier, has agreed to work to improve the well-being of women cocoa farmers after an Oxfam International report detailed corporate shortcomings in human rights and sustainability.
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Bangladesh: Tragedy Shows Urgency of Worker Protections
Offbeat  (tags: business, corporate, dishonesty, ethics, labor, lies, money, news, society, rights, safety, murder, humans, interesting, government, freedoms, crime, protection, risks, humanrights )

Robert
- 28 days ago - hrw.org
"Given the long record of worker deaths in factories, this tragedy was sadly predictable," said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch. "The government, local factory owners, and the international garment industry pay workers among the world's l
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Polls: Julian Assange's WikiLeaks Party Has Good Chance To Win Senate Seat In Australia
World  (tags: Highlights, News, World and tagged Assange, Campaign, Death Penalty, Election, Labor, National, News, Senate, South, U.S., Wikileaks )

Judy
- 28 days ago - mintpressnews.com
Much to the chagrin of the U.S. government, Julian Assange and his WikiLeaks Party are likely to win Senate seats in the Australian states of Victoria -- where Assange announced his intention to run for Senate -- and New South Wales, according to research
21 comments
Want More Gender Equality At Work? Go To An Emerging Market
Society & Culture  (tags: women's rights, freedoms, labor, equal pay for equal work, society, politics, culture, americans, government, rights, women, news, world, world )

Cal
- 31 days ago - npr.org
For the past decade more American women than men have earned undergraduate and Master's degrees; and in the past three years, they've outpaced men at the doctoral level, too.
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Texas Refinery Explosion Draws Attention to Limited OSHA Resources as Factor Preceding Tragedy
Health & Wellness  (tags: business, consumers, corporate, labor, law, money, politics, society, usa, safety, risks, protection, warning, prevention, humans, health, children, death, ethics, government )

JL
- 32 days ago - citizenvox.org
In the past five years, only two Texas facilities in the same classification - that produce fertilizer using ammonia - have been inspected by OSHA, records show. The agency, with a budget of roughly $568 million, lacks the resources to regularly inspect
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