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Efforts to Deliver "Kill Shot" to Paid Sick Leave Tied to ALEC
Business  (tags: children, babies, family, ethics, health, humans, illness, protection, risks, safety, women, society, prevention, investments, labor, law, consumers )

JL
- 45 days ago - prwatch.org
In a victory for working families, New York is poised to become the largest U.S. city to require businesses offer paid sick days to workers
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How Dangerous Is the Lead in Bullets?
Business  (tags: health, disease, ethics, research, protection, prevention, safety, risks, science, society, treatment, warning, investigation, humans, lies, marketing, consumers, labor )

JL
- 50 days ago - motherjones.com
It's all in the lead. A recent report from the National Academy of Sciences found that OSHA lead exposure standards are too lax to protect military firing range employees.
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Why Workers Should Be Wary About Corporate Wellness
Business  (tags: health, healthcare, diet, ethics, exercise, disease, prevention, nutrition, medicine, society, warning, risks, protection, abuse, americans, business, consumers, corporate, corruption, dishonesty, ethics, humans, labor, society, money, marketing, lies, us )

JL
- 84 days ago - healthcare-now.org
A growing number of US companies are now urging their employees to slim down, exercise more, reduce their cholesterol & blood pressure levels, or quit smoking--all socially desirable goals.But if these workers fail to cooperate with the new corporate "w
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Health Care Spending: A 21st Century Gold Rush
Business  (tags: healthcare, health, government, protection, risks, society, warning, ethics, abuse, americans, business, consumers, corporate, corruption, dishonesty, economy, finance, investments, investors, law, lies, marketing, money, society, investing, usa )

JL
- 84 days ago - healthcare-now.org
Winston Churchill once remarked, "Americans will always do the right thing, once they've exhausted all alternatives."His observation, at least the second half of it, is proving itself as we continue to struggle with our health care system, especially its
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Action Needed on Two Year Anniversary of Delayed Worker Safety Rule
Business  (tags: environment, disease, ethics, health, government, illness, protection, prevention, risks, safety, warning, society, research, study, treatment, labor, corruption, business, corporate, dishonesty, abuse, americans, money, marketing, law, usa )

JL
- 91 days ago - citizenvox.org
Two years ago today, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) submitted a proposal to update the standard that protects workers from exposure to crystalline silica dust.
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Report: Seed Giants Vs. U.S. Farmers.
Business  (tags: food, ethics, study, safety, risks, science, society, warning, research, protection, health, americans, business, consumers, corporate, cover-up, dishonesty, farming, investors, law, lies, marketing, money, politics, society, usa, investments, investing )

JL
- 100 days ago - centerforfoodsafety.org
one week before the Supreme Court hears arguments in Bowman v. Monsanto Co., the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Save our Seeds (SOS) launched our new report, Seed Giants vs. U.S. Farmers.
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Milestone Looms for Farm-Raised Fish
Business  (tags: food, safety, risks, society, diet, water, oceans, pollution, drugs, farming, finance, money, marketing, corporate, consumers )

JL
- 115 days ago - green.blogs.nytimes.com
Sometime this year, we will quietly pass a milestone in human history: the majority of the fish we eat will be farm-raised rather than wild-caught.
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Russian Oil Industry at a Crossroads as Infrastructure Ages
Business  (tags: energy, greenhousegases, environment, politics, protection, oceans, europe, world, conflict, ethics, health, society, study, safety, risks, warning, economy, oil, technology, SustainableDevelopment, corporate, business, energy, finance, ethics, investment )

JL
- 168 days ago - nytimes.com
But there are signs of trouble. The industry's traditional core, the giant West Siberian fields inherited from the Soviet Union, has been in decline since 2007.
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Take Action:Tell Congress: Dump the Biotech Rider!
Business  (tags: food, health, ethics, protection, research, risks, safety, science, society, warning, nutrition, diet, children, environment, humans, medicine, farming, finance, corporate, corruption, business, consumers, dishonesty, americans, abuse, investing, law, lie )

JL
- 168 days ago - salsa3.salsalabs.com
The same powerful interests that spent $44 million to mislead voters in California about Proposition 37 are at it again.
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Big Pharma Ups Its Game in Providing Drugs to People in Poor Countries
Business  (tags: disease, drugs, ethics, health, healthcare, humans, illness, protection, risks, treatment, society, research, medicine, corporate, consumers, finance, money, society, world, usa, marketing, business, americans, dishonesty, law, politics )

JL
- 170 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Access to Medicines Index shows pharmaceutical companies improving on pricing, neglected diseases, lobbying and trials
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Pledge To Boycott Walmart This Black Friday ACTION
Business  (tags: walmart, money, corporate, business, labor, risks, safety, salary, treatment, ethics, humanrights, family )

Nancy
- 187 days ago - other98.com
It's time to support Walmart workers who are fighting for an economy that works for all of us - let's support their strike this Black Friday by not crossing the picket line.
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Gap: Protect Sweatshop Workers' Lives ACTION
Business  (tags: corporate, business, humanrights, Gap, H&M, JC Penney, Abercrombie, labor, death, prevention, safety, risks, money )

Nancy
- 217 days ago - action.laborrights.org
Since 2006 more than 600 garment workers have died in sweatshop factory fires while sewing clothing for giant fashion companies, like Gap, H&M, JCPenney, and Abercrombie.
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Sign Our Petition to Walmart ACTION
Business  (tags: walmart, money, corporate, business, labor, risks, safety, treatment, ethics, humanrights )

Nancy
- 237 days ago - action.sumofus.org
For fifty years Walmart has been fighting a war against workers, driving down wages and crushing attempts to organize around the world. But just this week, an incredible new chapter opened in the fight against Walmart's race-to-the-bottom economics...
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BAD BUSINESS IS ON TRIAL! Monsanto, Bayer and Dow Face Trial for 'Systematic Human Rights Abuses'
Business  (tags: 'HUMANRIGHTS!', humanrights, death, pesticides, pollution, children, health, prevention, risks, pollution, humans, environment, economy, dishonesty, corporate, corruption, environment, news, politics, society, SustainableDevelopment )

Cal
- 554 days ago - theecologist.org
The world's major agrochemical companies, Monsanto, Dow, Bayer, Syngenta, DuPont and BASF, will face a public tribunal in early December accused of systematic human rights violations.
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