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Three Big Retailers To Back Proposal On Union Bill -- EFCA
Business  (tags: Costco, Starbucks, Union Bill, Unions, Whole Foods, EFCA, Employee Free Choice Act, Business News )

Blue
- 246 days ago - online.wsj.com
Three big retailers are expected to back an alternative proposal next week on a hotly contested bill that would make it easier to unionize workplaces, a move some experts said would bolster the legislation's chance of passage.
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After Years Of Lies, WSJ Concedes That Employee Free Choice Act 'Doesn't Remove The Secret-Ballot Option'
Business  (tags: EFCA, Employee Free Choice Act, unions, antiUnion groups, Wall Street Journal, workers, employees, freedom to form a union, secret ballot )

Blue
- 246 days ago - thinkprogress.org
The acknowledgment by the WSJ that the legislation doesn't eliminate the option of a secret-ballot election is surprising given that it has been one of the most aggressive pushers of the false meme:
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IBM Offers to Move Laid-Off Workers to India
Business  (tags: H1--B, IBM, corporations, India, IT workers, unions, outsourcing, economy, PNAC, Republicans, Bush, bank failures, mortgage crisis, credit crunch )

Blue
- 293 days ago - crooksandliars.com
I'm confused...big companies like IBM have insisted there were so few talented IT workers in the U.S., they had to import them from India. And yet now we have so many, we can send them to India! Isn't that funny?
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Workers of America: Wake Up! We All Need a Union!
Business  (tags: Workers rights, unions, organizing, protection )

Maryann
- 347 days ago - organicconsumers.org
We workers of America, white collar, pink collar, blue collar, and no collar at all, have just gotten a wonderful example of the power of having a union. It's an example that should have every unorganized employee in America looking for a union organizer.
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Union Blames Media Ownership Changes for Bulletin's Death - Australia
Business  (tags: australia, media, magazine, the bulletin, packer, unions, john howard )

Chrissy
- 670 days ago - abc.net.au
The journalists union has blamed the Howard government's changes to media ownership rules for the demise of Australia's oldest magazine, The Bulletin. ACP Magazines announced the end of publication today, saying there is no prospect of reversing years of
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Writers Strike Continues in 3rd Month of Impasse Over Internet Content
Business  (tags: Online content, Writer Strike, impasse, motion picture, internet, entertainment, NBC, Late Night shows, labor, unions )

Gregory
- 683 days ago - democracynow.org
VIDEO: The writers strike has entered its 68th day. Over 10,000 members of the Writers Guild of America went on strike November 5 over the refusal of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to pay writers for reruns of their work online
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The Flip Side of the Writer's Strike - the Point of View You're Not Being Told...
Business  (tags: tv, movies, hollywood, unions, outofwork, arts )

PeaceDrea
- 689 days ago - care2.com
in the words of one of our own care2ers, LilJudd.
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UAW, GM End STRIKE!
Business  (tags: UAW, GM, Chrysler, Ford, strikes, lump-sum, workers bonunses, unions, job security, cost disparity, Japan, China )

ON VACATI
- 789 days ago - ap.google.com
The two sides gave no other details, but a person briefed on the contract told AP that it also would give workers bonuses and lump-sum payments and would pay newly hired workers at lower rates. UAW-run trust to administer retiree health care..$51 billion!
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