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Inglewood schools once again face financial uncertainty
The troubled Inglewood school district is once again facing severe financial uncertainty. The school system was taken over by the state last September when Gov. Jerry Brown approved legislation granting $55 million in loans to the district. But...Tags: Career and Workplace, Jerry Brown, Unemployment, Teachers, Job Layoffs
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Ron Kaye: Working for the union or fighting it
In Glendale, utility workers found their paychecks a little smaller last week — the price of the inability of their union, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 18, to negotiate an initial contract two years after winning the...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation, Wendy Greuel, Wage Contract Issues, Patt Morrison
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Oct. 1, 1862: Avoid the draft
Getting drafted during the Civil War was seen as a black mark against a man's character, as if a man forced to take up arms was less a man than a volunteer. Drafts created tension in many places, most famously in the three-day riot that boiled through...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Northampton County (Pennsylvania), Easton (Easton, Pennsylvania), New York City, Northampton (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)
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A year after bankruptcy, lives unsettled still
The closing of the steel mill at Sparrows Point overwhelmed Bob Jennings. Too young to retire at 59, he faced a gloomy job market for local manufacturing workers and a bureaucracy that couldn't get him timely training help. He felt like a failure. No,...
Tags: Community College of Baltimore County, Services and Shopping, York County (Pennsylvania), Unemployment, Dundalk
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Baltimore's fire chief stepping down
Baltimore Fire Chief James S. Clack announced Friday that he will step down, ending a five-year tenure in which he oversaw historic lows in fire deaths but implemented budget cuts that critics said compromised safety. Clack, 52, the first chief hired...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Johns Hopkins University, Politics, Fires, Safety of Citizens
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American Crystal Sugar lockout ends
The American Crystal Sugar lockout effectively ended on May 28 when union workers showed up for their first day of work in almost 22 months, their relatively thin ranks testifying to the bitterness of the labor dispute. Just over 400 union members...Tags: Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation, Unemployment Benefits, Elections, Science and Technology
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Times not so sweet for sugar
A tough year in the sugar beet business became even tougher recently. Heavy rains in the northern Red River Valley will further slow sugar beet planting and could allow American Crystal Sugar Co. growers to plant only 430,000 to 440,00 of the 458,000...Tags: Career and Workplace, Strikes, Natural Disasters, U.S. Congress, Washington, DC
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Independent city jail audit shows widespread disorder
Outside auditors warned the state early this year that conditions at the Baltimore jail had deteriorated to the point that the complex had become dangerous, allowing some inmates access to chemicals in a janitorial closet while others scrawled graffiti on...
Tags: Black Guerrilla Family, Career and Workplace, Prisons, Politics, AFSCME
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GM may not build new Aveo car in S.Korea; union threatens strike
ReutersBy Hyunjoo Jin SEOUL, June 7 (Reuters) - General Motors Corp has told its South Korean labour union it has no plans to produce the next-generation Aveo small car at its key Asian base for the time being, prompting the union to threaten strike action....Tags: General Motors Corp., Career and Workplace, Strikes, Automotive Equipment, Hyundai Motor Co.
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WGA list: Why are TV comedies embraced but movies dissed?
If you’ve been on the Web or social media the past 24 hours, you no doubt have caught some of the arguments about the Writers Guild list of the 101 best TV shows of all time. “The Wire” should be higher! “Seinfeld” over...
Tags: Annie Hall (movie), Jean Stapleton, Seinfeld (tv program), Entertainment, Ferris Bueller's Day Off (movie)
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Union accuses CTA of violating labor contract
Tribune reporterLabor peace has been short-lived at the CTA in the wake of an historic contract negotiated late last year that reformed decades-old work rules to increase efficiency and save the transit agency millions of dollars annually. On Monday, several hundred...Tags: Rahm Emanuel, Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation, Chicago Mayor, Consumers
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101 best-written TV series full list: 'The Sopranos,' 'Seinfeld' and more
Zap2itThe Writers Guild of America has released its list of the 101 best-written TV shows of all time. Over half the list is from the last decade, which the WGA says is due to the "sharp growth in original programming on bath basic and pay cable television,"...Tags: Career and Workplace, Writers Guild of America, Seinfeld (tv program), Entertainment, New York City Police Department
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