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No movement on NHL; world junior tournament to be aired in U.S.
The NHL and NHL Players’ Assn. have not had recent contact and nothing new is planned, NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly said on Monday. The league on Friday filed a class-action suit in U.S. District Court in New York alleging the union’s...
Tags: NHL Network (tv network), National Football League, New England Patriots, Eric Dickerson, National Hockey League Players' Association
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Sheriff-elect Israel unveils his command staff
Broward Sheriff-elect Scott Israel notified 28 Broward Sheriff's Office employees yesterday by email that they will not be working for him. And he announced his new command staff today. Some on his list will fill positions currently held by someone...Tags: Broward County, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Fires, Harvard University, Fort Lauderdale
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Column: When unions lose, workers lose
America lost one of its iconic brands last month when Hostess, maker of Twinkies, Ding Dongs, Wonder Bread and other staples of postwar Middle America, closed up shop. The announcement was an occasion for wags to litter the Internet with jokes about...Tags: United Auto Workers, The Wall Street Journal, Pension and Welfare, Periodicals, Chicago Teachers Strike
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Reality shows may put crews too close to cutting edge
Monica Martino had filmed tornadoes in the Midwest, ship collisions in the Antarctic and crab fishermen in Alaska's Bering Sea. But those experiences didn't prepare her for a terrifying nighttime boat ride in the Amazon jungle. In February, the 41-year-...
Tags: Survivor (tv program), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Human Interest, Emergency Incidents, Drama (genre)
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PASSINGS: James D. Hodgson, Patrick Moore
James D. Hodgson Former secretary of Labor James D. Hodgson, 96, who as secretary of Labor in the early 1970s helped shepherd the Occupational Safety and Health Act into law, died Nov. 28 at his Malibu home, his family announced. The cause was...
Tags: Richard Nixon, Television, World War II (1939-1945), Health and Safety at Work, Entertainment
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9 Arrested in Black Friday Protest at Paramount Walmart
KTLA NewsLOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- Sheriff's deputies were called in to break up a crowd of as many as 500 protesters outside of a Walmart in Paramount on Friday. Employees had organized a demonstration outside the store as part of a nationwide protest organized by...Tags: Police Arrests, Employees, Strikes, Thanksgiving, Unions
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Don't blame the union in the great Twinkie debacle of 2012
America lost one of its iconic brands last month when Hostess, maker of Twinkies, Ding Dongs, Wonder Bread and other staples of postwar Middle America, closed up shop. The announcement was an occasion for wags to litter the Internet with jokes about the...
Tags: Pension and Welfare, The Wall Street Journal, United Auto Workers, Chicago Teachers Strike, Strikes
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Right-to-Work Battle Inches Toward Connecticut
The Hartford CourantConnecticut in some ways resembles Michigan, a high-wage industrial state with about the same proportion of union membership as of 2011 -- 17.7 percent here, 18.3 percent there, compared with 11.8 percent for the nation. A year ago, heck, six weeks ago,...Tags: Government, United Auto Workers, Detroit Free Press, Employees, Regional Authority
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Right-to-work debate heats up ahead of Michigan vote
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Even with the outcome considered a foregone conclusion, the heated battle over right-to-work legislation in the traditional union bastion of Michigan shows no sign of cooling. Authorities in Lansing were bracing for an...
Tags: Government, General Motors Corp., Barack Obama, Regional Authority, Laws
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Teachers union gives strike notice to Geneva schools
Special to the TribuneAdministrators from Geneva School District 304 will begin working on strike plans, after they received formal notice from the teachers that they intend to strike, officials said late Friday. A nearly 12-hour session ended without a deal Friday night....Tags: Geneva (Kane, Illinois), Strikes, Unions, Teaching and Learning, Teachers
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Park Ridge mayor rejects union contract
Citing Park Ridge's precarious financial condition and the need to keep property taxes as low as possible, Mayor David Schmidt vetoed a contract with one of the city's five employee unions and pay raises for non-union employees. Schmidt's veto of the...Tags: Health Insurance, Finance, Collective Contract, Economy, Business and Finance, Property Tax
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Philippines seeks to reduce numbers of overseas domestic workers
World NowIn the face of complaints of abuse and fraud abroad, government officials are seeking to stem the wave of more than a million Filipina workers who have headed overseas to work as maids. The outpouring of Filipinos to other countries has paid off for the...
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