Archive for the 'Labor' Category
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Max Follmer
The Huffington Post
Utah Mine Owner Will Skip Congressional Hearing
September 4, 2007 02:31 PM
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The owner of the Crandall Canyon mine in Utah where six workers were trapped by a cave-in a month ago will not be appearing at a Senate hearing on mine safety Wednesday in Washington.
A witness […]
Posted in Business, Energy, Democrats, Cong-SENATE, Labor, Harry Reid |
Sunday, August 26th, 2007
One hundred years ago, coal mine and spinning mill owners took advantage of children. Now, could it be that a media company has followed their lead for
profit and entertainment?
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‘Kid Nation’ Borders Open To a Flood Of Bad Publicity
By Lisa de Moraes
Saturday, August 25, 2007; C07
CBS, which said it wanted to make some noise with […]
Posted in Business, Television, USA, Labor, Children |
Friday, August 17th, 2007
Murray absent from news conference at Crandall Canyon Mine
By Ben Winslow
Deseret Morning News
Published: Aug. 17, 2007 1:59 p.m. MDT
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UBIQUITOUS BOB MURRAY
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His absence was conspicuous.
Bob Murray, the outspoken owner of the Crandall Canyon Mine, did not appear at a news conference today to discuss the deaths of three rescue workers and the injuries of six […]
Posted in Business, Labor, Utah |
Friday, August 17th, 2007
Mine Safety Czar Richard Stickler: Another Bush Fox Guarding the Henhouse
Huffington Post | Max Follmer | August 15, 2007 02:28 PM
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Mr. Safety: Dick Stickler
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The man who will oversee the federal government’s investigation into the disaster that has trapped six workers in a Utah coal mine for over […]
Posted in Business, Bush, Energy, Labor |
Thursday, June 7th, 2007
The title and first paragraph look good, but the other grafs certainly paint a much drearier picture.
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Jobless claims down 1,000 to 309,000 last week
Thu Jun 7, 2007 1:32 PM BST18
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The numbers of U.S. workers signing up for first-time unemployment benefits edged down by 1,000 to a seasonally adjusted 309,000, Labor Department data […]
Posted in administration, Economy, Labor |
Thursday, June 7th, 2007
I envision corporate headhunters foraging at Forty Hours Devotions. Who knows? I’d trust priests more if they belonged to the Teamsters or the ILWU. ON THE WATERFRONT would certainly have been a different movie if Karl Malden were Johnny Friendly’s muscle or had run his own con. The Exorcist would probably been far less […]
Posted in Business, Labor, Maryland, Roman Catholics |
Sunday, June 3rd, 2007
Bancroft family to meet with Murdoch
Sat Jun 2, 2007 10:46AM EDT
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Representatives of the Bancroft family, which controls Dow Jones & Co. Inc. (DJ.N: Quote, Profile, Research, plan to meet with News Corp. (NWSa.N: Quote, Profile, Research chief Rupert Murdoch on Monday to discuss his $5 billion bid for the company, The […]
Posted in New York, Newspapers, Wall Street, Labor, Rupert Murdoch |
Friday, May 25th, 2007
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Airbus A380 pilot sits in the cockpit of an Airbus A380 aircraft at San Pablo airport in Seville May 8, 2007. The aircraft will fly to the Air Force base in Moron de la Frontera where it will undergo noise-certification tests. REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo (SPAIN)
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Bigger pay for pilots of super jumbo A380 plane
by Rachel Lim […]
Posted in Transportation, Labor, Airlines |
Saturday, May 5th, 2007
TSA loses hard drive with personal info
By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press
Last updated: 8:03 a.m., Saturday, May 5, 2007
WASHINGTON — The Transportation Security Administration has lost a computer hard drive containing Social Security numbers, bank data and payroll information for about 100,000 employees.
Authorities realized Thursday the hard drive was missing from a controlled area at TSA […]
Posted in Homeland Security, Computers, Labor, Airlines |
Monday, April 9th, 2007
tired of the cheap suits…the forty-pound breast pockets… the bad complexions. But, mainly I was tired of the whining around the water cooler by guys who would just as soon fall asleep at their desks than empty a .38 into your gut.
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NRC staffers quietly become gun-toting cops
Typical cases involve falsified records, lost equipment, sleeping […]
Posted in Nuclear Issues, Television, Homeland Security, Labor, Guns, Police, Nuclear Regulatory Commission |
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
The New York Times
March 6, 2007
Editorial
The Right to Organize
There are many reasons for the long decline in the membership rolls for private sector unions, including powerful changes in the economy and the unions’ past corruption scandals. And there is little doubt that federal rules and regulations for union organizing have also become increasingly hostile to […]
Posted in Society, Democrats, Cong-HOUSE, Labor |
Saturday, March 3rd, 2007
Airbus losing remaining A380 cargo order
By LAURENCE FROST and HARRY WEBER
BW Exclusives
PARIS
Airbus was left with an empty order book for the cargo version of its much-delayed superjumbo plane after UPS Inc. said it would cancel its order for 10 A380s. The move comes just a week after UPS, the world’s largest shipping carrier, and Airbus […]
Posted in Business, Labor, France, Aircraft |
