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Hotel workers: An article in the May 12 California section about a proposal to increase wages for hotel workers said that it would apply to unionized workers. Proponents want the higher $15-an-hour wage to go to both union and nonunion workers at larger...Tags: Explosions, Emergency Incidents, Career and Workplace
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Letters: America's well-paid workers
Re "Go ahead, ask for a raise," Opinion, May 14 Barbara Garson's argument rests on the claim that from 1971 to 2007, worker productivity soared while inflation-adjusted worker well-being barely budged. This premise is faulty. Garson uses wages...Tags: Productivity, Career and Workplace
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Three U.N. observers released unharmed between Syria and Israel
BEIRUT -- Three United Nations observers posted in the buffer zone between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights were seized by armed anti-government forces and held for five hours this week before being released unharmed, the U.N. said. It...
Tags: Government, Israel, Pakistan, Kidnapping, National Government
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Village Voice 'bloodbath' sends restaurant critic Robert Sietsema packing
Particularly hard-hitting employee cuts at the Village Voice on Friday included longtime restaurant critic Robert Sietsema, who had been at the New York alt weekly newspaper for 20 years. Gossip columnist Michael Musto and theater critic Michael...
Tags: Unemployment, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Reviews, Career and Workplace, News Media
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Sweat-free labels to change the garment trade [Blowback]
In a May 7 Op-Ed article, Richard Greenwald and Michael Hirsch exhort consumers to support the workers who make our clothes rather than the global apparel industry that exploits them with low wages and unsafe working conditions. Yet exactly how we...
Tags: Genetic Engineering, Immigration, U.S. Supreme Court, Labor Legislation, Laws
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Labor group says Wendy Greuel will push minimum wage to $15
Union backers of Los Angeles mayoral candidate Wendy Greuel have sent out a new mailer declaring that she would raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour in L.A., even as Greuel and her allies disputed that she had made such a promise and called for all...
Tags: Jose Huizar, Wendy Greuel, Radio Industry, Politics, Career and Workplace
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Senators tighten student visa rules in immigration bill
The Senate Judiciary Committee amended the sweeping immigration bill Tuesday to tighten student visa rules in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings. The committee, which is trying to get through the 844-page bill by the end of the week, also...
Tags: Migration, Immigration, Parties and Movements, Mo Brooks, Republican Party
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Unions protest over potential L.A. Times sale to Koch brothers
About 300 labor-union members and other activists staged a demonstration Tuesday to protest the potential sale of the Los Angeles Times to the billionaire politically conservative Koch brothers. Demonstrators marched outside the downtown L.A....
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Newspapers, Interior Policy, Career and Workplace, Oaktree Capital Management
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JPL to appeal NLRB order rescinding discipline of 5 employees
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Tuesday said it planned to appeal a National Labor Relations Board judge's order to rescind disciplinary actions against five engineers and scientists. "Caltech respectfully disagrees with the decision and intends...Tags: Justice System, Science and Technology, Work Relations, George W. Bush, Judges
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Unions protest over potential sale of L.A. Times to Koch brothers
About 300 labor union members and other activists staged a demonstration to protest the potential sale of the Los Angeles Times to the politically conservative Koch brothers. Demonstrators marched outside the downtown L.A. headquarters of Oaktree...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Newspapers, Interior Policy, Career and Workplace, Oaktree Capital Management
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'Make history' with first female mayor, says ad for Wendy Greuel
A new union-sponsored television ad urges Los Angeles voters to "make history" by electing Wendy Greuel the city's first female mayor. Service Employees Local 721, sponsor of the ad, said it will begin airing Thursday and be broadcast for 10 days,...
Tags: Wendy Greuel, Layoffs and Downsizing, Career and Workplace, Bill Clinton, Politics
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Bonus.ly looks to motivate workers with peer-to-peer bonuses
Complainers, excuse peddlers and social loafers. Every company has them. I’m talking about unmotivated employees who hurt not only business but also everyone working around them. So how do you motivate unmotivated employees? One way is to offer...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Career and Workplace, Budgets and Budgeting, Finance
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