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Updated 10/1/2003; 11:40:20 AM

Friday, September 19, 2003

Democracy Works Overtime. Thanks in part to the work of activists, the United States Senate defied a threat of a White House veto and voted 54-45 to defend overtime pay. [AlterNet]
3:26:15 PM    comment []

Colorblind Racism. With open racial bigotry a thing of the past, researchers are pulling back the covers on an entrenched system of institutional bias. [AlterNet]
3:25:47 PM    comment []

India: Airport workers in anti-privatization hunger strike. LabourStart headline - Source: Times of India [LabourStart]
1:12:40 PM    comment []

G.M. Accord Finishes Talks for U.A.W.. The United Automobile Workers made its most significant concessions in decades, resulting in the loss of thousands of jobs. By Danny Hakim and Micheline Maynard. [New York Times: Business]
1:12:28 PM    comment []

Fewer Claims for Jobless Benefits. The number of Americans filing initial claims for unemployment benefits fell to 399,000 people, down 29,000 from a revised 428,000 the week before. By Reuters. [New York Times: Business]
1:12:12 PM    comment []

G.M. Plant Will Remain Open Until 2007, Union Says. Workers at the General Motors plant in Linden, N.J., which faced a permanent shutdown by 2005, got yet another reprieve that would keep it open into 2007 as a result of a tentative settlement reached yesterday between the company and the United Auto Workers, a union official said. By Ronald Smothers. [New York Times: Business]
1:11:44 PM    comment []

Yale in Deal With 2 Unions, Ending Strike. Yale and its two main unions reached a tentative eight-year contract that will give many workers raises of more than 40 percent over the life of the pact. By Steven Greenhouse. [New York Times: Business]
1:11:34 PM    comment []

China Insistent on Protecting Currency. China's central bank defended its determination to hold its currency at the current level against the dollar and to maintain controls on large flows of money across China's borders. By Keith Bradsher. [New York Times: Business]
1:10:53 PM    comment []

Michael Jacobs: Progressive globalisation beyond Cancun. Politics: Globalisation can be a force for social justice, but only if capitalism is managed with that aim, writes the Fabian Society's Michael Jacobs. [Guardian Unlimited]
1:08:09 PM    comment []

Welcome to the machine?. Consumers love ATMs, self-checkout machines and airport boarding-pass kiosks. But what about the workers who get automated out of existence? [Salon.com]
1:05:07 PM    comment []

Belarus: New upsurge of anti-union repression - arrest of Alexander Yaroshuk, President of the Congress of Democratic Trade Unions of Belarus. LabourStart headline - Source: ICFTU [LabourStart]
11:07:29 AM    comment []

Factories Chug Along, Jobs Still a Worry (Reuters). Reuters - Manufacturing in the U.S. mid-Atlantic region edged back from five-year highs but remained solid in September, while the bleak labor market brightened a bit last week, reports on Thursday showed. [Yahoo! News - Business]
11:06:50 AM    comment []


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