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Cintas: Trying to have its cake and eat it too
March 27, 2009Eleazar Torres-Gomez is dead. On March 6, 2007, working alone in an industrial laundry facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma owned by major uniform and laundry service corporation, Cintas, Torres-Gomez was caught in a massive industrial laundry machine...
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Unemployment hits harder among Blacks, Latinos
March 27, 2009(AP) The ax fell without sound or shadow: Tatiana Gallego was suddenly called into human resources and laid off from her job as an admissions counselor for a fashion college. 'The way people tried to explain...
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Israels accidental prime minister
March 27, 2009JERUSALEM (bitterlemons.org) — Ehud Olmert would probably never have made it to the office of prime minister of Israel were it not for two events related to former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon: the creation of Kadima...
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Unions to G20: Half measures wont fix broken global economy
March 27, 2009BRUSSELS, Belgium — In a worldwide push for action by G20 governments to pull the global economy out of recession and chart a new course for job creation, financial regulation and global governance, trade unions across...
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UPDATE GAO: Labor Department failed miserably in enforcing wage laws
March 27, 2009Original source:UPDATE: Labor Secretary Hilda Solis announced the department’s Wage and Hour Division will add 250 new investigators, a staff increase of more than a third. The agency already has begun the process of adding 150...
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