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Clerks at L.A., Long Beach ports finally ratify labor accord
Members of a small clerks union said Thursday they had agreed to a contract with employers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, taking the potential for fresh strikes at the busy harbors off the table. Representatives for both sides released a...
Tags: Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry, Employment Opportunities, International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Career and Workplace, Employment
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Chicago museums reeling after building sprees
The turn of the millennium was a heady time for many Chicago cultural institutions. Cheap loans, high investment returns and swelling endowments spawned a slew of new attractions along the lakefront and around downtown. The Art Institute built its Modern...
Tags: Marshall Field, Adler Planetarium, Museums, Arts and Culture, Economy, Business and Finance
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Palestinians protest detention of hunger strikers by Israel
RAMALLAH, West Bank –- Amid increasingly volatile protests around the West Bank, Palestinian and international leaders are pressuring Israel to release four Palestinian prisoners who have been on hunger strikes for several months in protest...
Tags: European Union, Government, West Bank, Government Ministers, United Nations
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Supreme Court to consider eliminating political contribution limit
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court has agreed to go beyond its controversial Citizens United decision and consider striking down the limit on the total amount that wealthy persons may give to candidates and political parties. The justices voted to hear...
Tags: Political Fundraising, Federal Election Commission, U.S. Congress, Politics, Career and Workplace
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California inmates renew demands
California prison inmates housed in the state's highest-security prison have sent an open letter to Gov. Jerry Brown, threatening hunger strikes and work stoppages if the state does not limit the length of time prisoners can be held in isolation cells....
Tags: Career and Workplace, Prisons, Jerry Brown
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Is another strike looming for the ports of L.A. and Long Beach?
Bargaining units for a clerical workers' union rejected a tentative labor agreement this week that that ended an eight-day strike that shut down the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach late last year. The tentative contract, announced Dec. 4, intially...
Tags: Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry, International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Career and Workplace, Shipping Service, National Retail Federation
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Grayslake teachers strike enters 3rd day
Special to the TribuneThe Grayslake teachers strike has entered its third day after a five-hour negotiation session Thursday failed to produce a contract agreement. Another meeting has been called for 6 p.m. Sunday. "Both sides gave a little (Thursday), but not enough to...Tags: Chicago Teachers Strike, Teachers, Career and Workplace, Teaching and Learning
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West Chicago teachers end strike
Tribune reporterWest Chicago elementary teachers are back in the classrooms this morning after nearly 12 hours of negotiations produced a tentative contract. Talks began at 1 p.m. Wednesday and the deal was reached around 12:30 a.m., officials said “Well, the...Tags: Chicago Teachers Strike, Teachers, Career and Workplace, Teaching and Learning
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Vista Latina: El Centro resident figured prominently in farm worker union's rise, fall
Imperial Valley Press Staff Writer, Copy EditorWith a mix of pride and sorrow, Mario Bustamante recalls that day at the United Farm Workers convention in September 1981. Concerned that an emergency resolution would strip union delegates of their vote and further consolidate the executive board’...Tags: Authors, Lettuce, Career and Workplace, Unions, Holiday Vacations
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With time running short, port braces for dockworkers strike
Port of Baltimore officials say they "are preparing for the worst," in the event of a longshoremen's strike at one minute past midnight Dec. 30.
But that would be nothing, they say, compared with a management decision to lock out workers at the...Tags: CSX Corporation, Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry, Cruise Line Ports, Machine Manufacturing, Jim White
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White House urges end to labor fight at East, Gulf Coast seaports
The Obama administration is urging union dockworkers and a management group to "continue their work at the negotiating table to get a deal done as quickly as possible" to avoid a strike that could idle 14 East and Gulf Coast seaports. The word that...
Tags: Labor Disputes, White House, Career and Workplace, Barack Obama, Port of Long Beach
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Greece orders subway strikers back to work
ATHENS -- Greece's ruling coalition on Thursday issued an emergency order demanding that striking subway employees go back to work or face massive arrests and potential job losses in the latest labor showdown to grip the beleaguered government. It is...
Tags: Finance, Subway Transportation Industry, Arts and Culture, Culture, Economy, Business and Finance
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