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Show your love for working mothers this Mothers Day
May 4, 2009Mother’s Day, May 10, is one of the biggest days in the year for flower sales. Yet thousands of women who pick most of the flowers, many of them mothers themselves, will be working in egregious...
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Stunning win for Visteon workers
May 4, 2009Original source: Visteon workers have won a resounding victory in their fight for justice after bosses backed down and offered huge redundancy payouts. The former Ford workers had resisted Visteon executives' attempts to make them pay...
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May Day in Baghdad
May 3, 2009Original source: Iraqi Communists, waving red banners, joined thousands of workers and trade unionists in celebrating International Workers' Day in central Baghdad on Friday, 1st May 2009. The marchers started off from under Nasb al-Hurriya (Freedom...
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Egypt to welcome Israel PM in May
May 3, 2009Cairo, May 2 (Prensa Latina) Egypt expects a visit by Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to hold talks on bilateral affairs and the peace process with Palestinians. The local media, quoting official sources, say President Hosni...
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World Bank in about face on worker rights
May 3, 2009WASHINGTON, Apr 30 (IPS) - The World Bank is dropping an index scored for undermining worker rights from its flagship effort to promote business-led economic growth in emerging, developing, and former Soviet countries. The move, announced...
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