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Updated
5/3/2004; 3:26:49 PM
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Tuesday, April 20, 2004 |
Gap Inc. agrees to union factory. San Francisco's Gap and the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees together announced their support on Monday for a unionized clothing factory that's about to open in El Salvador, a country known as a tough place for organized labor. The factory will be small, employing about 150 workers at first. Gap said it plans to buy T-shirts from the plant, which is structured as a co-op partially owned by the workers. San Francisco Chronicle Apr 20 2004 9:44AM GMT
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Nigeria's 'respectable' slave trade. Allan Little reports on how Nigerian society prefers to turn a blind eye to the problem of human trafficking. It starts with the promise of a better life. The parents are taken in. The children are persuaded. When they leave home they do so willingly, with some excitement, not trepidation. The trafficker has promised a good job, a schooling, a regular income. But that is not how it works out. [BBC News | Africa | World Edition]
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New Zealand: Japanese unpaid hotel worker gets hired. Japanese woman who spent her savings to snare a non-paying job with a plush Christchurch hotel has now been properly hired. Kayoko Sakamoto is due to start work at the Centra Hotel today, almost four weeks after she blew the whistle on a scheme where she paid Christchurch agency East Wind for an "internship" at the Cashel Street hotel. The New Zealand Herald Apr 20 2004 7:04PM GMT [
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Immigration's Riveting Question to Americans. Are you better off in 2004 than you were 70 million immigrants ago including their offspring in 1965? Are your schools in better shape as they cope with multiple languages, overcrowded classrooms, rising campus violence, teacher shortages, and a record setting student population of 53 million, heading for 97 million by the end of this century? Are your students better prepared to meet the challenges of a new century and a global marketplace? Washington Dispatch Apr 19 2004 4:10AM GMT
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Cleveland library workers threaten one-day strike. More than 400 union employees of the Cleveland Public Library are planning a one-day strike tomorrow after 15 months of contract negotiations have failed to produce an agreement. If the Service Employees International Union Local 11-99 carries out the action, Cleveland's Main Library downtown and some branches will remain open, but others will close. WKYC News Apr 20 2004 0:50AM GMT
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Coke plant workers strike in Philadelphia. About 450 employees of the Philadelphia Coca-Cola Bottling Co. hit the picket lines on Monday after rejecting the company's last contract offer by a 3-to-1 margin. Teamsters Local 830 rejected the company's offer late Sunday, saying the company had offered inadequate increases in wages and medical and pension benefits. Boston Globe Apr 20 2004 1:15AM GMT
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Core Internet Technology Is Vulnerable (AP). AP - Researchers found a serious security flaw that left core Internet technology vulnerable to hackers, prompting a secretive effort by international governments and industry experts in recent weeks to prevent global disruptions of Web surfing, e-mails and instant messages. [Yahoo! News - Technology]
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Fremont tech firm learns lesson in offshoring. On the surface, the decision to "offshore" appeared to be simple, said CEO Gary Griffiths. Sending about 35 of its 85 positions to Costa Rica would cut the company's call center costs by 25 percent, the company said.
But soon after making the switch, Everdream began hearing complaints. Problems that should have taken five minutes to solve were taking an hour. Promises to call back customers went unfulfilled. Because of the language difference, customers could not always understand the call center agents. The occasional static on the line didn't help. Contra Costa Times Apr 20 2004 12:37PM GMT
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Janice Kimball
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