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Updated 2/2/2004; 1:34:39 PM

Monday, January 26, 2004

Healthy Jobs. As SEIU casts its organizing eye on homecare workers, wages slowly and steadily rise. [AlterNet]
12:25:31 PM    comment []

Pollock saw the future of labour Fifty-three years ago, the founder and chairman of staffing firm Drake International Inc. first made his mark by persuading Canadian companies to reduce their permanent work forces and contract their increasingly flexible employment needs to him.  Canada, Globe & Mail [GAM]
12:05:07 PM    comment []

NAFTA: A Decade of Devastation for Workers, Poor Communities of working people and the poor on both sides of the border have paid the price for trade liberalization. Benefits have been reaped only by the tiny clique who promoted NAFTA in 1994.
 [Pacific News: Economy]
12:03:35 PM    comment []

Unions Losing Ground Over Health Care Corporations are capitalizing on Americans' lack of affordable health care, draining union resources with battles over benefits. The writer looks at current, nationwide grocery store strikes, and asks why unions abandoned their struggle for universal health care decades ago.
 [Pacific News: Economy]
12:02:59 PM    comment []

Africa to Lost Professionals: 'Come Home' 300,000 African professionals currently work in Western countries. The flight of human capital, or "brain drain," from Africa is nothing new. But recent years have seen a sharp rise in the numbers of African-trained experts and professionals leaving the continent -- as well as new strategies designed to lure them back.
 [Pacific News: Economy]
12:01:26 PM    comment []

NAFTA at 10: A Challenge From China All three NAFTA nations lost almost 2 million jobs in the United States and several hundred thousands in each of Canada and Mexico, mostly in manufacturing.
 [Pacific News: Economy]
11:55:56 AM    comment []

BA prepares 3,000 more job cuts. The carrier gets ready to announce a further wave of cost cuts, on top of the 13,000 jobs lost last year. [BBC News | Business | World Edition]
11:40:48 AM    comment []

Poor prospects for trade talks cloud Davos. Transatlantic tensions are forgotten at the World Economic Forum, but trade, the economy and globalisation may be future worries.  The discussions and workshops during the five day meeting ending on Sunday highlighted worries for the future: stalled global trade talks, a weak dollar and escalating budget deficits in the world's six largest economies, and the social impact of globalisation.  [BBC News | Business | World Edition]
11:15:25 AM    comment []

Lula calls for trade revolution. The Brazilian president urges India to join forces with his country to change the pattern of world trade. [BBC News | World | Americas | UK Edition]
11:10:32 AM    comment []

Sugar sours US-Australia talks. Australia's attempts to sign a free trade deal with the US look set to founder on US electoral politics and the sugar vote. [BBC News | World | Americas | UK Edition]
11:03:00 AM    comment []

U.S. Budget Office Deepens Fiscal Gloom for Bush (Reuters). Reuters - The Congressional Budget Office on Monday forecast a slight improvement in this year's record federal budget deficit, but new evidence of worsening deficits over the next decade will still pose political problems for President Bush in an election year. [Yahoo! News - Business]
10:51:45 AM    comment []

Greenspan Is Confident of Replacing Jobs (AP). AP - Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said Monday that jobs lost in the last recession can be replaced but that unemployed workers may need retraining to qualify for new work. [Yahoo! News - Top Stories]
10:48:06 AM    comment []


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