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Updated
5/24/2004; 11:10:29 AM
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Whirlpool closes Canadian appliance factory that employed 600. MONTMAGNY, Quebec - The 600 employees at Whirlpool Corp.'s appliance factory east of Quebec City worked their last shift Thursday, two years after the company announced that the plant would close. Production at the Montmagny plant, which was founded in 1867 and had several owners, is being transferred to the United States and Mexico. The factory was the town's biggest employer for more than a century. Miami Herald May 13 2004 9:20PM GMT
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Maytag CEO: U.S. plants must cut costs. The company is in the process of closing a 1,600-employee plant in Galesburg, Ill., and moving production to Mexico. But Hake told shareholders attending the annual meeting there are no plans to shift more U.S. jobs there - although the company does have space at the Mexcio facility to accommodate future growth. AP via Seattle Post Intelligencer May 13 2004 9:46PM GMT
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Residents, workers fear impact of service cuts. Across Metro Detroit, communities are preparing to make painful, visible cuts in the programs and services their residents have come to expect. Warren plans to lay off 36 firefighters and paramedics. Beat cops no longer will patrol the streets of downtown Plymouth. Royal Oak motorists could face steeper fines for traffic tickets. Dearborn’s library staff could be cut to the point the city will have to rely on volunteer librarians, and city budget officials may have to eliminate an additional 50 jobs from the city payroll. Livonia called off the Memorial Day parade. Detroit News May 14 2004 6:13AM GMT
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Workers Afraid to Report Injuries?. Workers Comp Insider reports that The National Council on Compensation Insurance has announced 2003 workers' compensation results. The find the results "both interesting and confounding." For the sixth straight year, claim frequency, the total number [Confined Space]
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Ghetto's in Denmark
Despite the country's long-held ideals of social equity and cradle-to-grave welfare, Denmark is increasingly becoming a socioeconomically polarized society. While the upwardly mobile and well-to-do are settling in comfortable residential neighbourhoods or privately rented apartments, the socially marginalized are stranded in ghettos with high concentrations of immigrants.
The trend was outlined in a new report by the Economic Council of the Labour Movement (AE), which was aimed at mapping the emergence of ghettos in Denmark. In 1982, 1.9 percent of the Danish population resided in what could accurately be termed "social ghettos." By 2002, that figure had swelled to 4.8 percent, comprising more than one out of four public housing complexes.
Some 250,000 Danes currently live in social ghettos, more than 30 percent of whom are classified as socially disadvantaged Copenhagen Post May 14 2004 9:41AM GMT
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30 job to go as Ireland County Laois textiles company closes
Over 30 people are to lose their jobs in Co Laois with the closure of a textile company there.
Mountmellick Textiles employs 33 people, almost all of whom have worked there for 25 years.
The company has been in operation for 50 years and is to close in eight weeks time. A struggling textile industry is being blamed. Irish News May 14 2004 3:21AM GMT
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Leaders to Gather at World Economic Forum (AP). AP - Hundreds of political, business and civic leaders have an intense agenda as they gather at the lowest point on Earth — the Dead Sea — to address the Middle East's most pressing issues: terrorism, reform and how to create 80 million jobs by 2020. [Yahoo! News - World]
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Number of migrant rural workers in China reach 113.9m in 2003. BEIJING, May 14 (Xinhuanet) -- China had 113.9 million migrant workers from rural areas in 2003, who accounted for 23.2 percent of the total rural laborers, according to a survey carried out by China's State Statistical Bureau. In 2003, about 69 million rural laborers worked in medium-sizedcities and 56.2 million rural laborers worked outside their provinces, covering 61 percent and 49.9 percent respectively of the total, according to the spot survey, which investigated 68,000rural families and 7,100 villages among 31 provinces. Xinhua News Agency May 14 2004 12:28PM GMT
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Kodak staff worry about cost cutting strategy. Many of the 250 attendees at the annual meeting, held near Kodak Park , the company's biggest manufacturing facility, were current and former employees, worried that future cost-cutting may hurt their benefits and the jobs of family members. Spurred by declining demand for traditional film, Kodak is set to cut up to 15,000 jobs over the next three years as it invests in digital businesses such as commercial printing. NewIndPress May 13 2004 11:36PM GMT
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Janice Kimball
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