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First look: CBS announces 'The Amazing Race' cast
Show TrackerValentine's Day will bring us the 16th season of "The Amazing Race" and a gift to fans that is as sweet as chocolate. Remember Miss Teen South Carolina who became a YouTube sensation in 2007 with her memorable, rambling answer...... -
Disney hotel workers to launch hunger strike in dispute over healthcare benefits
L.A. NOWHotel and restaurant workers engaged in a two-year labor dispute with Disney centering on heathcare benefits plan to launch a public hunger strike Tuesday afternoon outside Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa. Seven Disney staffers, two solidarity... -
Cut the theatrics, writers
Producers in Hollywood absolutely believe that writers should be compensated for their work in new media. They also believe writers deserve to share in whatever success new technologies bring to studios. Producers have already put their money where...Tags: Politics, Labor Disputes, Career and Workplace, DVDs and Movies, Mass Media
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Farmworkers Reap Little as Union Strays From Its Roots
Times Staff WriterRed letters flash inside the famous black eagle, symbol of the United Farm Workers: "Donate," the blinking message urges, to carry on the dreams of Cesar Chavez. Bannered on websites and spread by e-mail, the insistent appeals resonate with a...Tags: Condos and Houses, Symbols and Symbolism, Rooms and Sublets, Illegal Immigrants, Family
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Orange County and Planned Parenthood
This nation tried abstinence-only sex education. It didn’t work.
And yet the Orange County Board of Supervisors took a serious step backward this week by suspending a contract with Planned Parenthood to provide health education for girls and...Tags: Abortion, Birth Control, Hospitals and Clinics, Family Planning, Abortion Issue
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Autoworker unions: villains or victims?
Today's topic: Are labor unions a victim or villain in the decline of the Detroit Big Three? Shikha Dalmia and David Madland discuss the state and future of American labor unions.
A New Deal-era model is sinking the Big Three Point: Shikha Dalmia
A...Tags: Career and Workplace, Marketing, Wages and Pensions, Business Enterprises, Retirement
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A year of triumphs and scandals for SEIU
The year might have ended on a purely triumphant note for Andy Stern, who heads the nation's fastest-growing labor union and played a key supporting role in President-elect Barack Obama's drive for the White House.
Instead, Stern has seen the Service...Tags: University of California, Career and Workplace, Rod Blagojevich, Restaurants, Political Corruption
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The Big Three's real union problem
The Big Three are a mess, and there is plenty of blame to go around. Washington lawmakers pondering the bailout for Detroit have been grilling executives of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler about their role in the crisis. But sitting by their side...Tags: Career and Workplace, Honda, Wages and Pensions, Retirement, Labor Markets
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Blue Shield sued by Realtors
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe California Assn. of Realtors said Monday it had sued Blue Shield of California to stop the health plan from canceling its contract and dropping coverage for as many as 8,000 Realtors and family members. The flap is the latest example of how high...Tags: Insurance, Family, Death, Collective Contract
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UAW busting, Southern style
The foreign nonunion auto companies located in the South have a plan to reduce wages and benefits at their factories in the United States. And to do it, they need to destroy the United Auto Workers.
Last week, Senate Republicans from some Southern states...Tags: Gaming, Mitch McConnell, Career and Workplace, Honda, Wages and Pensions
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Government officials and politicians
Government officials and politicians Spencer M. Williams, 85; federal judge in San Francisco, appointed by President Nixon, who advocated for judges' interests (Jan. 3) Houston I. Flournoy, 78; GOP assemblyman and controller in California who lost the...Tags: Jimmy Carter, University of California, Television Industry, White House, Jesse Helms
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Grocers get with the times
Clearly, grocery chains and their workers learned a lesson in 2004, when management and labor at Albertsons, Ralphs and Vons approached contract negotiations with intractable positions on healthcare and wages. Back then, stubbornness on both sides led...Tags: Safeway Inc., Career and Workplace, Employees, Wage Contract Issues, Wages and Pensions
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