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Union Leader Criticizes Supervisors Over Possible Job Cuts. News that almost 1,400 jobs could be eliminated because of state funding cuts prompted a union leader to lash out at supervisors Tuesday. It was "pretty unusual" to learn about the possible job losses after the employees did, said Mary Grillo, executive director of the Service Employees International Union Local 2028, which represents many county employees. NBC San Diego Apr 21 2004 5:38AM GMT
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Anti-outsourcing bills may jeopardise US trade pacts: Study. "Much of the proposed legislation, if implemented, could invite retaliation by other nations," the study by the National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP) said, noting that in 2001, 6.4 million American residents were employed by foreign corporations in the United States. Manorama Online Apr 21 2004 5:49PM GMT
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Ciena to shut down San Jose operation. Communications-equipment maker Ciena announced Tuesday that it will close its San Jose development center to cut costs, leaving about 425 workers without jobs. SiliconValley.com Apr 21 2004 6:50PM GMT
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What German Prostitutes Want. Sex is big business in Germany. With some 400,000 prostitutes and an annual 1.2 million men who use their services, the yearly turnover has hit a massive €14 billion ($16.5 billion). But paid sex can be a nasty business. Two years ago the German government introduced a new prostitution law in what was an earnest attempt to protect prostitutes' working conditions and even offer them some protection against violence and exploitation. Deutsche Welle, International broadcaster of Cologne, Germany [Breaking News Headlines from Around the World, Powered by Worldpress.org]
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Spiegel jobs cuts hit Chicago hard. Bankrupt retailer Spiegel Inc. laid off another 255 employees, or 2 percent of its fast-shrinking work force, on Tuesday after failing to find a buyer so far for its namesake catalog. ChicagoBusiness.com Apr 20 2004 7:03PM GMT
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Pensacola Florida school charged with fraud for hiring out students. A charter school has been charged with criminal fraud for allegedly hiring out students with academic or behavior problems to work on state road projects when they were supposed to be in class. Assistant State Attorney Russell Edgar accused Escambia Charter School on Tuesday of accepting up to $140,000 from one state agency to educate 140 at-risk students and $250,000 from another for putting them to work on such jobs as cleaning rights of way. ABC Action News Apr 21 2004 6:23PM GMT
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Arbitration Panel gives ex-Merrill Lynch broker $2.2 billion NEW YORK - An arbitration panel found that Merrill Lynch & Co. engaged in systematic discrimination against women in a decision that awarded $2.2 million to former female broker. The decision marks the first ruling against a Wall Street firm for systematic discrimination. Experts said the legal finding of a pattern at Merrill likely will pressure the firm to settle 39 other cases against it that stem from a class action suit filed against the company in 1997. [Miami Herald: Business]
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In Maine, A Shipyard That Endures. For 400 years, the pine-covered banks of the Kennebec have been home to one of the nation's most thriving shipbuilding cultures. And for more than a century, the BIW has constructed many of the keels, hulls, engines, and masts of America's commercial and Naval fleets - ships that rode the waves of industrialization, immigration, and some of the most brutal military conflicts in history... Yet as commercial ship building has all but disappeared from the US and military contracts have moved south, the future of this historic shipyard and the town that it supports are in doubt. Wed, 21 Apr 2004 13:00:19 PDT [PLANetizen: Front Page]
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Janice Kimball
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