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Report critical of hiring airport screeners without background checks. WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a rush to hire workers, the Transportation Security Administration put thousands of screeners at the nation's airports without required background checks, the Homeland Security Department's inspector general said Friday. Eighty-five of those workers were convicted felons, later fired. AP via New Jersey Online Feb 6 2004 9:35PM GMT
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Bay Area Loses $104 Billion in Economic Opportunity. San Francisco -- A new analysis of regional economic activity by Redefining Progress, done in conjunction with the Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Communities, shows that the Bay Area has lost more than $104 billion in economic opportunity. The principal losses have occurred in the areas of environmental degradation, jobs and housing imbalance and under-employment. The result is economic activity whose value is 45% lower than the Gross Regional Product, a measure of total economic transactions.
Environmental News Network Feb 6 2004 10:18PM GMT
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Budget pressures mean tough year for Bennington home. MONTPELIER, Vt. -- A difficult financial year lies ahead for the Vermont Veterans Home, its administrator told legislators Thursday. The Bennington facility's budget is under pressure from rising payroll and employee benefits costs, which have increased by almost 20 percent over the past year, Commandant Earle R. Hollings told the House Appropriations Committee. Boston Globe Feb 6 2004 8:13PM GMT [Moreover - Search results for...]
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Fear And Redevelopment At Brooklyn's Red Hook Waterfront. Businesses at the Red Hook waterfront in Brooklyn have been betrayed by New York City before but survived, and revived. Now the blue-collar maritime and industrial neighborhood fears a zoning change that will bring in luxury apartments or a cruise ship terminal, and new residents that may reject existing land uses -- especially those blue-collar industries that are accompanied by Dumpsters, truck traffic and odors. Planetizen Feb 6 2004 2:58PM GMT [Moreover - Search results for...]
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Brooklyn Takes Bragging Rights In New Jobs. The state comptroller says just five percent of the jobs created in Brooklyn during the booming 1990s were lost in the downturn of 2000 and 2001, while Manhattan lost more than half of its new jobs. 1010Wins Feb 6 2004 4:11PM GMT
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Railway strike called off in Sri Lanka. The ten day general railway strike in Sri Lanka was called off Friday night after Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s government gave an assurance that it will consider reversing the process to run the island’s railways under a semi government authority TamilNet Feb 6 2004 8:25PM GMT
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Pay, pensions have police up in arms. Two police unions — the International Brotherhood of Police Officers and the Police Benevolent Association — say Atlanta Georgia loses 100 officers a year through attrition, with many younger officers hopping to better-paying metro area departments or heading on to other cities. Assistant Police Chief Alan Dreher puts the attrition number closer to 75. But everyone agrees it's a problem. Atlanta Journal And Constitution Feb 6 2004 2:15PM GMT
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City retirees sue over health care. Akron Ohio's police and firefighter retirees have filed suit claiming the city has reneged on a promise of free, lifelong health care. Akron Beacon Journal Feb 6 2004 7:48AM GMT
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Grocery picket lines arrive in Phoenix. Southern California union officials are targeting four Arizona Albertsons locations to rally support.
About 90 United Food and Commercial Workers Union members held a rally at Albertsons 19th and Northern avenues location Thursday afternoon. The UFCW officials plan to expand their picket lines from today to Sunday. AZCentral.com Feb 6 2004 5:32AM GMT
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Mechanics challenge jet work ruling. US Airways aircraft mechanics will challenge an appeals court ruling on outsourcing jet maintenance, the union said Thursday, as labor leaders prepared to meet with management today to discuss cost savings and a revised business plan. Pittsburgh Tribune Review Feb 6 2004 7:35AM GMT
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Workers protest Tijuana trash plan. TIJUANA, Mexico – From secretaries to groundskeepers to sanitation workers, thousands of unionized government employees gathered outside City Hall yesterday to protest a plan to privatize trash collection. SignOn San Diego Feb 6 2004 4:07PM GMT
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Bucharest, February 6 (InvestRomania) – Japan’s Sumitomo Electric Ltd said it would open its third plant in Romania in a move to boost its car wires production in the Balkan country.
The company which operates through its subsidiary Sumitomo Electric Wiring Systems România will invest €4 million and it will create 1,500 new jobs.
Once finalised, the new plant togeter with the other existing two will increae the firm annual turnover to €43.7 million from €35 million at present.
Sumitomo Electric Wiring Systems România produces spare parts for brands like Mazda, Ford, Honda, Rover.
(Bucharest Newsroom-Tel/fax: +40 21 210 2934; +40 21 210 2935- edited by andrei.iva@mediaon.ro)
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Rail Union to Break Tie with Labour. The historic link between the country’s biggest railway workers union and Labour will be broken tomorrow after a simmering row over support for other political parties exploded into open warfare. The Rail Maritime and Transport Union defied an ultimatum to stop its branches affiliating to the Scottish Socialist Party and instead turned its anger against the Government accusing it of “betraying workers”.
PA News via Scotsman Online Feb 6 2004 3:45PM GMT [Moreover - Search results for...]
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Child labour in carpet industry on decline: study. The Indian carpet industry, with a large and lucrative overseas market, is witnessing a decline in the use of child labour, primarily because of “social labelling” and non-tariff barriers imposed on them, says a recent study commissioned by the International Labour Organisation (ILO). Navhind Times Feb 3 2004 0:55AM GMT [Moreover - Search results for...]
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The High Price of Wal-Mart. While draining government assistance programs and sidestepping community concerns, Wal-Mart continues to bulldoze through opposition. Faced with mounting criticism over low pay, sex-discrimination, exploitation of undocumented immigrants, violation of child labor laws and hard-line anti-union tactics, Wal-Mart has tapped its $250 billion in annual revenues to shower conservatives in Washington with money. [AlterNet]
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Cockle deaths spark gang fears. Police are investigating whether 19 people who died picking cockles in Morecambe Bay were illegal immigrants working for a gang. The group of more than 30 cocklers were caught in rising tides on Thursday night. A total of 16 people survived. Police said 14 of the survivors were Chinese, including nine asylum seekers. The deathshave sparked calls for more protection of migrant workers. [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition]
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Janice Kimball
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