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Gold Cross suffers personnel impasse
Staff WriterGold Cross Ambulance employees reached a contract impasse with the company and a strike notice has been issued, a union representative confirmed Wednesday. Contract impasses involving Gold Cross Ambulance have reportedly occurred in the past, but an...Tags: Career and Workplace, Collective Contract
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Bondholders spark U.S. legal drama over Argentine debt
Collection agencies profit by buying up old debt, chasing borrowers for payment and, when all else fails, using the courts to recover as much as they can. It's a business model polished and perfected over decades of litigation. But what if the...
Tags: Litigation, Justice System, Argentina, Trials, Litigation and Regulation
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Tough laws, reduced ranks: What's next for unions?
From a sprawling United Auto Workers hall outside Detroit, John Zimmick has seen factories close and grown men cry when their jobs disappear. Through all the economic uncertainties of life in auto country, there has been one constant: the union. In...
Tags: AFL-CIO, Executive Branch, Plant Closings, Petroleum Industry, Unemployment
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Unions sign long deals before right-to-work starts
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Washtenaw County has approved contracts with five public worker unions that will enable the unions to keep collecting dues from all covered workers for the next decade, despite Michigan's right-to-work law, which takes effect...Tags: Career and Workplace, Justice System, AFSCME, Employees, Rick Snyder
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Ron Kaye: Standing up to the town bully
The sparse front page of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 18 website expresses exactly the message Brian D'Arcy wants his members to get: Rotating photos of protesting workers waving "A DEAL IS A DEAL" signs. It also features...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Wendy Greuel, Blackmail and Extortion, Robert J. Lopez, Unions
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New terms in rail sale delay board's approval
PIERRE -- At least one member of the South Dakota Railroad Board is tired of the delays in the latest try at selling the state-owned railroad line between Napa Junction and Platte. Dan Baker of Rapid City stood alone Wednesday in voting against...Tags: Executive Branch, Transportation, Collective Contract, Renewable Energy, Career and Workplace
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SEC accuses city of Victorville, others of fraud in bond sale
Ever since the Department of Defense shut down George Air Force Base in 1992, the high desert town of Victorville has struggled to reinvent itself. The city encouraged massive residential and retail development. It invested in two new power plants....Tags: General Electric Company, Property, Collective Contract, Finance, Career and Workplace
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City in $2 million dispute with Xerox over camera tickets
Baltimore officials are refusing to pay the city's former speed and red-light camera operator $2 million for its final three months of work, a period that preceded the troubled start for the new contractor in January. The city stopped issuing tickets...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Collective Contract, Xerox Corporation
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Guidelines for Freelance Writers
Dear Travel Writer: Welcome to the cornerstone of what we do. What follows is the most important information contained in these several pages. The Los Angeles Times values honesty, fairness and truth. We understand the difficulties of the profession,...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Social Media, Seafood, Religion and Belief, Ethics
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City to void more than 6,000 camera tickets
Baltimore City said Tuesday that it will throw out more than 6,000 speed and red-light camera tickets because its former contractor has stopped showing up in court to defend them — the latest sign of the dysfunction dogging Baltimore's speed...
Tags: Justice System, Judges, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, AAA, Collective Contract
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SAG-AFTRA announces plan to cut 60 jobs
This post was updated at 5:50 p.m.SAG-AFTRA, the union representing Hollywood actors and other performers, said Sunday it is eliminating 60 positions from the organization as part of plan to balance its budget. The layoffs, about 10% of the jobs at the union, represent the second wave...Tags: Career and Workplace, Celebrities, Unions, Job Layoffs, Unemployment
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Mike Feuer collects $650,000 for city attorney runoff campaign
Former lawmaker Mike Feuer, a candidate for Los Angeles city attorney in the May 21 runoff, had raised $308,000 by April 6, the first campaign reporting deadline, and had collected an additional $350,000 in taxpayer matching funds, according to a document...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Religion and Belief, Ethics, Elections, Values
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