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University of California, Berkeley |
Updated
5/24/2004; 11:10:28 AM
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Thursday, May 13, 2004 |
Hotels may close due to strike. Hotel and Restaurant Workers’ Union (HRAF) did not reach an agreement with the Norwegian Hospitality Association (RBL) Tuesday and threatens to close all the hotels. Nettavisen Forside May 12 2004 11:39AM GMT
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SBC, CWA continue contract negotiations. A contract between SBC Communications Inc. and a labor union representing 100,000 workers is being extended on a day-to-day basis, a union spokeswoman said Tuesday. Negotiators for the company and the Communications Workers of America met Monday with federal mediator Peter J. Hurtgen. The meeting came after the union extended discussions past a strike deadline originally set for last Saturday. SiliconValley.com May 12 2004 2:12AM GMT
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Norwegian journalists strike. Oslo - Nearly 2 900 Norwegian journalists walked off their jobs on Wednesday after failing to settle a new contract, crippling major newspapers and the national news and photo agencies. News24.com May 12 2004 12:24PM GMT
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Spanish jobs at car giant Seat saved. BARCELONA – The president of Spanish car giant Seat said Thursday the production of 10 percent of one of the firm's leading models is to return to Catalonia from a plant in Slovakia. Expatica Spain May 13 2004 5:35PM GMT
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411 San Diego county workers face loss of jobs. Despite employees' pleas, the supervisors voted unanimously to hand out layoff notices to 411 workers and to eliminate 986 vacant positions. The reductions amount to about 7 percent of the county's work force of nearly 18,000. SignOn San Diego May 12 2004 10:33AM GMT
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Malaysia: Labor Accord Fails Indonesian Migrant Workers. Malaysia and Indonesia have signed an agreement on labor migration that denies basic protections to migrant workers and excludes household workers, Human Rights Watch said today. Indonesian domestic workers, almost exclusively women, are at grave risk of abuse and exploitation in Malaysia. Human Rights Watch May 11 2004 10:22PM GMT
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Manhattan Storeowner Accused of Underpaying and Sexually Harassing Workers. Three immigrant women yesterday filed a federal lawsuit that accused a Manhattan store owner of paying them far less than the $5.15-an-hour minimum wage and telling them he would not grant them raises unless they had sex with him. The lawsuit asserts that the women, who worked as cashiers and stocked merchandise, were paid as little as $30 for a 10-hour day, or $3 an hour, and were told they were to blame for their low pay because they refused to have sex with the boss. New York Times May 13 2004 6:20AM GMT [
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Job push in Brooklyn with new job training center.
A new job training center in downtown Brooklyn has launched a drive to place local residents in hundreds of jobs at a soon-to-open shopping center.
The Brooklyn Workforce1 Career Center, which opened today at 9 Bond St., plans to work with retailers at the Atlantic Terminal Development's mall to fill most of the 800 new jobs that will be created. The shopping center, slated to open in July, will be located above the transportation hub at Atlantic and Flatbush avenues. Businesses that plan to hire through the center include Target, Starbucks, Verizon Wireless, Mcdonald's, The Children's Place, Daffy's, Coldstone Creamery, and Men's Wearhouse.
The career center is operated by the city Department of Small Business Services, the state Labor Department and the City University of New York. It is partnering with the city Sales and Service Training Partnership and the National Retail Federation to help local community-based organizations assess, train and place jobseekers.
Copyright 2004, Crains NY Business May 13 2004 7:19AM GMT
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Teacher Layoffs In East Bay, San Francisco. Facing mounting budget deficits, school officials in both San Francisco and the West Contra Costa School District voted late Tuesday night to lay off hundreds of teachers and other personnel. Seventy-nine teachers, counselors and librarians will be laid off in San Francisco while 350 teachers, counselors and school librarians will be pink slipped in West Contra Costa. BayInsider May 13 2004 0:06AM GMT
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Governor urged to back off anti-offshoring directive. Arizona business interests want Gov. Janet Napolitano to rescind her recent directive aimed at weeding foreign outsourcing and offshoring out of state government contract work. Business Journal of Phoenix May 12 2004 10:43PM GMT
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Gap Inc. describes working conditions in garment factories worldwide. The San Francisco-based owner of the Gap, Old Navy and Banana Republic stores made the comments Wednesday in its first ever "social responsibility" report -- a 40-page document that mixed contrition about the past with promises to do better in the future. San Francisco Chronicle May 12 2004 4:10PM GMT
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Paris rail commuters face delays as strike begins. French commuters, especially those in the Paris area, braced Wednesday for widespread delays as rail workers called a 36-hour strike over plans to reorganise the freight sector of the national railway SNCF. Expatica France May 12 2004 3:32PM GMT
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Steel Production Resumes At ISG. CLEVELAND -- A Cleveland steel mill is jump-starting production again today after closing its doors for three years. About 140 workers were expected to be back at work today after a $10 million renovation of the old LTV steel mill. NewsChannel5 reported. NewsNet 5 May 12 2004 11:49PM GMT
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Employment rate up for Japanese high school graduates.
TOKYO — The employment rate among new high school graduates in Japan at the end of March rose to 89% from 86.7% a year ago, reflecting signs of an emerging economic recovery, a government survey said Thursday.
The rate increased for the second consecutive year and this spring's rise of 2.3 percentage points was far larger than the 0.4 point figure of a year ago, said an official at the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. (Kyodo News) [Japan Today: Business]
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Janice Kimball
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