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As vets await checks, VA workers get $24M bonuses »
Posted by: Progressive 2 months, 3 weeks ago in Health & Fitness
Outside the Veterans Affairs Department, severely wounded veterans have faced financial hardship waiting for their first disability payment. Inside, money has been flowing in the ...
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Library complains of crossed-out curses »
Posted by: BronxBomber 2 weeks, 3 days ago in News
COLUMBIA, Tennessee - Workers at a Tennessee library said someone has been using blue ink to completely scratch out curse words from books in the collection ...
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Workplace study: 45% of food-service workers smoke »
Posted by: JessicaLaurie 1 month ago in News
If you break smokers down by their occupations, the workers who are most likely to smoke are in the food-service industry, says a report from ...
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2 China Wal-Mart workers arrested after death - Yahoo! News »
Posted by: mpchekuri 2 months, 1 week ago in News
Two employees of a Wal-Mart store in eastern China were arrested after a woman was beaten outside the store on suspicion of being a shoplifter ...
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G.M.\'s Latest Plan Envisions a Much Smaller Automaker »
Posted by: engineer 6 months, 2 weeks ago in Business & Finance
For all the uncertainty swirling around General Motors , the troubled automaker said Monday that one thing was clear: it must become drastically smaller if it ...
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Can You Get Unemployment Insurance After Being Fired? »
Posted by: pacodecabra 2 months, 3 weeks ago in Business & Finance
As the unemployment rate in the US continues to skyrocket, the issue of unemployment benefits has become very important to a large number of people ...
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Strange happenings at coroner's office ..... »
Posted by: BronxBomber 2 weeks ago in News
WAUKEGAN, Illinois - Workers at an Illinois coroner’s office said unexplained sounds and other strange happenings began when a body was left in a cooler ...
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How Race Turns up the Volume on Incivility »
Posted by: Progressive 1 month, 3 weeks ago in Political Opinion
What turns up the volume on Americans' feelings about immigration is that the immigrants are not white, English-speakers from London but brown-skinned Mexicans who may ...
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Ice-skating bear fed up with ice-skating »
Posted by: BronxBomber 3 weeks, 1 day ago in News
Kyrgyzstan - An ice-skating bear with a visiting Russian circus turned on its trainers killing the circus director and seriously wounding another man during a rehearsal ...
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current Senate Stimulus bill would give 300,000 construction jobs to illegal aliens »
Posted by: RedRiverJ 9 months, 1 week ago in News
Famed analyst Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation has just released an estimate that the stimulus bill on the Senate floor would provide construction jobs ...
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India outsources call-center jobs to Detroit »
Posted by: kr112157 4 months, 4 weeks ago in Humor
DETROIT, MI - The City of Detroit announced this week it has been awarded several thousand low paying call-center jobs from a group of corporations in ...
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The Sad Story Behind Labor Day »
Posted by: engineer 2 months, 1 week ago in Style
For most of us, Labor Day means backyard barbecues, weekend sales, and a last carefree day before school starts. But the laid-back holiday has some ...
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Employers Use Recession to Put the squeeze on workers »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 7 months ago in Business & Finance
More employers are using the recession as an excuse to roll back employee benefits, force unpaid time off or fire workers.
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Study: H1B Visa Use Reduces U.S. Programmer Salaries by 6% »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 6 months, 4 weeks ago in Political News
Globalization is wonderful, and does no harm anywhere, that's the line we've been fed. But a new study, titled "H-1B Visas, Offshoring, and ...
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Employee Free Choice Act: "Fox Facts" vs. actual facts »
Posted by: elzorro2162 8 months ago in Political News
In recent days, Fox News has run on-screen text -- often billed as "Fox
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Facts" -- falsely claiming that the Employee
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