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5/3/2004; 3:26:51 PM
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Friday, April 23, 2004 |
31,000 Canadian jobs at risk in apparel industry. MONTREAL - As many as 31,000 jobs could be lost in the Canadian apparel industry as a result of liberalized trade and the emergence of China as a major domestic threat, says a study released yesterday. Financial Post Apr 23 2004 6:25PM GMT
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Union says Maytag laying off 110 employees in Iowa. Maytag Corp. officials told its workers' union that about 110 employees would be laid off in Newton Friday, union officials said. "It's sad," said Pat Teed, president of Local 997 of the United Auto Workers. The cuts come just two months after the company laid off 170 production workers. San Francisco Chronicle Apr 23 2004 2:48PM GMT
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Pilots Offer Concessions to Northwest Air. Pilots at Northwest Airlines said on Friday they will offer the company $200 million in annual concessions to help the airline reduce red ink. But the offer through 2006 is less than half of what Northwest has already told the pilots it needs from them as part of a company goal to achieve labor savings of $950 million annually. Reuters Apr 23 2004 7:54PM GMT
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For most workers, cash is king. A few extra days of vacation or a move to a corner office are pleasant perks, but when it comes to making workers truly happy, neither compares with a fatter paycheck. Many employees, feeling overworked and undervalued thanks to bare-bone staffs and tiny pay raises, say only the tangible benefit of cold, hard cash will lift their spirits. ChicagoBusiness.com Apr 23 2004 4:01PM GMT
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Origin Pacific airline in New Zealand cuts staff and flights. Nelson airline Origin Pacific is cutting staff numbers and reducing flights after losing its partnership with Qantas. Meetings were held with the company's 450 staff in Nelson, Christchurch, Wellington, and Auckland on Thursday telling them redundancies were likely. The New Zealand Herald Apr 23 2004 6:04PM GMT
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G7 powers gather to protect high-speed global economy. Group of Seven financial powers gather under pressure to protect unexpectedly rapid world growth by trimming a massive US trade deficit and re-balancing global momentum. AFP via Yahoo! Apr 23 2004 5:30PM GMT
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Global Poverty Down By Half Since 1981 But Progress Uneven As Economic Growth Eludes Many Countries. The proportion of people living in extreme poverty (less than $1 a day) in developing countries dropped by almost half between 1981 and 2001, from 40 to 21 percent of global population, according to figures released today by the World Bank. But while rapid economic growth in East and South Asia has pulled over 500 million people out of poverty in those two regions alone, the proportion of poor has grown, or fallen only slightly, in many countries in Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. World Bank Apr 23 2004 6:26PM GMT
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Contractors and Mercenaries: the Rising Corporate Military Monster.
It is unclear exactly what law applies to the contractors, explains Peter W. Singer, author of Corporate Warriors (Cornell University Press, 2003) and a leading authority on private military contracting. They do not fall under international law on mercenaries, which is defined narrowly. Nor does the national law of the United States clearly apply to the contractors in Iraq -- especially because many of the contractors are not Americans.
Relatedly, many firms do not properly screen those they hire to patrol the streets in foreign nations. "Lives, soldiers' and civilians' welfare, human rights, are all at stake," says Singer. "But we have left it up to very raw market forces to figure out who can work for these firms, and who they can work for. "CounterPunch Apr 23 2004 4:40PM GMT
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Janice Kimball
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