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Labor and Employment Weblog
University of California, Berkeley |
Updated
5/24/2004; 3:41:14 PM
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Jobs threat hits north-east England textile factory. More than 100 jobs are under threat at a Wearside textile factory. The news is another blow to the north-east of England's struggling clothing industry, which has seen a spate of job losses over the past year. Bosses at the Dewhirst factory in Sunderland are to begun consultation with unions over the future of about 120 posts. The company is blaming falling orders and cheap foreign competition for the situation. BBC May 22 2004 1:41PM GMT
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Boeing union recommends members reject offer, approve strike. The union of technical and professional workers at Boeing Co.'s Wichita plant urged its members Monday to reject the company's latest contract offer and authorize a strike. The Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace -- which narrowly survived a decertification vote in February -- received what the company called its final offer Monday morning, just three hours before its members were scheduled to vote on whether to accept or reject it. San Francisco Chronicle May 24 2004 6:54PM GMT
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Runoff needed to pick Chicago Teachers Union president. Chicago Teachers Union members will need a runoff election after none of the four got the 50 percent of the vote needed to win the union's presidential election, the union said Saturday. The top two finishers in Friday's election, current President Deborah Lynch and special-education teacher Marilyn Stewart, will square off June 11. Chicago Sun-Times May 23 2004 12:13PM GMT
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UAL Can't Rule Out Furloughs. United Airlines Chief Operating Officer Pete McDonald on Monday said employee furloughs could not be ruled out given the high price of jet fuel. Reuters May 24 2004 6:15PM GMT
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Preying On Human Cargo (Forbes.com). Forbes.com - Victor Zavala Sr. was in a panic. His sons and daughter-in-law had just been arrested by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's immigration division, part of a sweep last October of 250 illegals who held cleaning jobs at Wal-Mart stores in 21 states. Zavala waited on a call from Kenneth Clancy, who had put him and his family to work at the giant retailer in Old Bridge, Piscataway and Toms River, N.J., and would get them out of this horrendous scrape. Clancy did phone, says Zavala. But it was to tell him to put together a new crew to clean that evening. [Yahoo! News - Business]
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Boeing defense workers accept new 3-year contract ST. LOUIS -- Machinists and aerospace workers for The Boeing Co.'s St. Louis-based defense unit approved a new contract yesterday, hours before the current contract was to expire. The three-year deal, which takes effect today, was approved 1,221- 808 by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers' District 837, union spokesman Thomas Pinski said. [Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Business]
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On the Job: N.Y. baristas get organized Some New York baristas want more for their lattes and mochas. They're threatening to form the first union at a U.S. Starbucks store. In midtown Manhattan, baristas sent union cards to the National Labor Relations Board last week, seeking a vote that could occur next month on union representation for roughly 12 employees, according to Daniel Gross, a Starbucks worker and one of the organizers. [Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Business]
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Can Blue-Collar Cities Make A Comeback?. Such a strategy is the best hope, it says, to hold and attract the young and creative people who've been fleeing the state. But will businesses be willing to locate in older cities that often have a reputation -- justified or not -- for neighborhood blight, crime and disorder, polluted brownfields, poor schools? Mon, 24 May 2004 10:00:00 PDT [PLANetizen: Front Page]
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Mass firing at big meat-packer in Alberta Canada leaves immigrant workers at a loss (Canadian Press). Canadian Press - BROOKS, Alta. A water truck hoses down the dusty road leading into the Lakeside Packers plant as the B shift begins to arrive. Inside the $150-million plant, owned by American meat-packing giant Tyson Foods, officials are still working at settling the dust raised by a mass firing of workers last month. Tyson won't say how many people they fired last month, but workers - mostly Sudanese refugees with limited grasp of English - have compiled a list of 60 names and signatures of colleagues they claim were dismissed for sticking up for workers' rights. [Yahoo! News - World]
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Janice Kimball
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