Labor
Glenn Beck calls unemployed “un-American”
August 20, 2010According to Glenn Beck the nations 1.4 million Americans who have been out of work more than 99 weeks are "a bunch of un-American losers."
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Record jobless numbers trigger new alarm
August 20, 2010Despite economic forecasts to the contrary jobless claims rose last week by 12,000 to 500,000, the third straight weekly increase and the first time in nine months that they hit the half-million mark.
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Justice served to restaurant workers
August 19, 2010The Restaurant Opportunities Center of Michigan (ROC-MI) won a major victory when the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued an order that Dearborn's Andiamo Restaurant acted illegally.
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Disneyland worker sent home for hijab
August 19, 2010A Muslim employee in Disneyland's Grand Californian Hotel has been sent home from work with no pay for refusing to take off her hijab while working as a hostess in a hotel restaurant.
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College grad adds union organizing to job as a laundry hauler
August 18, 2010Unorganized California hotel workers stage a one-day strike.
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