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  • State clears Boeing for discrimination pass
    1 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Leonie Lamont
    The defence contractor Boeing has won the right in NSW to discriminate against employees whose nationalities do not meet US security requirements.
    A three-year exemption from the anti-discrimination act allows Boeing to exclude employees at its Bankstown plant from working on projects using US technology.
    Only Australians and other nationalities approved by the US will be issued tags granting them security clearance.
    The State Government quietly granted the exemption (…)

  • Halliburton Employee Says He Was Gang-Beaten By Co-Workers at Baghdad Airport
    31 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The father of an employee of Halliburton subsidiary KBR in Iraq is alleging that his son was gang-beaten by a group of fellow employees, known as the "Red Neck Mafia," at the Baghdad airport where he works as a security coordinator for KBR. We speak with Eli Chavez, the father of KBR employee Ronald Chavez. [includes rush transcript] The father of an employee of Halliburton subsidiary Kellog, Brown and Root in Iraq is alleging that his son was gang-beaten by a group of fellow employees at (…)

  • San Francisco port workers shutting down docks to protest war
    19 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    There’s a rising tide of workers’ anger against the war in Iraq and the cuts in government programs to pay for it — in enforcement of worker- safety laws, health care, Social Security, education and jobs. The recent victory of the nurses’ union over Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s attempt to deny adequate staffing ratios in hospitals shows that labor can turn the tide.
    Last year, the Port of Oakland — the fourth largest port in the United States, ratcheting Northern California higher up on (…)

  • A "Labor Intensive" Strategy For Building Workers’ Power
    3 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Peter Rachleff
    At noon on a beautiful June day in suburban Minneapolis, eighty-five women and men streamed out of the U.S. West corporate "campus" building,each one carrying a pink, lime green, or lemon yellow square. Each square bore a single letter in black paint. Laughing, they lined up in a particular order, spelling out "D-O-W-N-S-I-Z-I-N-G A-T U-S-W-E-S-T = R-O-A-D-K- I-L-L F-O-R Y-O-U". They marched to a highway overpass half a block away, took their positions, and held their (…)

  • Germany : ’If you don’t take a job as a prostitute, we can stop your benefits’
    23 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Clare Chapman
    A 25-year-old waitress who turned down a job providing "sexual services’’ at a brothel in Berlin faces possible cuts to her unemployment benefit under laws introduced this year.
    Prostitution was legalised in Germany just over two years ago and brothel owners ­ who must pay tax and employee health insurance ­ were granted access to official databases of jobseekers.
    The waitress, an unemployed information technology professional, had said that she was willing to work in (…)

  • There’s no place like work for the holidays
    27 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Stephanie Armour
    The economy might be showing signs of perking up, but employers are playing Grinch when it comes to year-end time off.
    Employees are getting less paid time off around the holidays than in previous years. With Christmas Day and New Year’s falling on successive Saturdays, 33% of companies plan to give workers three or more paid days off this year. Last year’s figure was almost twice as high, at 65%, according to the BNA.
    But it’s not just because of the calendar. (…)

  • Workers Demand Union at Wal-Mart Supplier in China
    16 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by HOWARD W. FRENCH
    SHENZHEN, China, Dec. 15 - The scene on the street did not look like much, just the comings and goings of small groups of women from their factory dormitory, with a few lingering here and there in knots to discuss their situation.
    Since Friday, though, work has stopped inside the Uniden factory’s walls here, where 12,000 workers, mostly young women from China’s poor interior provinces, make wireless phones, which the Japanese manufacturer supplies in large number to (…)

  • China: Capitalism means war against the working class
    14 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Heiko Khoo
    China’s drive to the “socialist market” has fostered a booming economy. This concealed a mass of contradictions which an economic crisis will unravel. Here we expose the terrible price paid by the working class for capitalist “reforms.” The leadership of Hu Jintao
    September 2004 saw the transfer of leadership from Jiang Zemin to Hu Jintao, thus consolidating his political and military power. Born in 1942, Hu is the first leader to have grown up after the revolution. (…)

  • NY POST: ILLEGAL NANNY KOS KERIK AT HOMELAND
    11 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ILLEGAL NANNY KOS KERIK AT HOMELAND
    http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/32657.htm
    By DEBORAH ORIN and ZACH HABERMAN
    December 11, 2004 — Former city top cop Bernard Kerik, who was set to take over the reigns as secretary of homeland security, shocked the nation last night when he withdrew his name from consideration because of a problem with an apparently illegal nanny.
    Two lawyers working with Kerik on his upcoming confirmation as secretary uncovered that at one point last year (…)

  • 9/11 Rescue workers get "WTC Cough" from inhaling pulverized cement
    4 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Apparently 9/11 is still having it’s very negative effect on people, the damage extends past the lives lost. Rescue workers have come down with what scientists have called, "world trade center cough" from inhaling pulverized cement.
    Some rescue workers have asthma type breathing difficulties, others just have a constant cough. The "WTC cough", effects the lungs. Since the particles were so fine, perhaps an investigation as to how so much "pulverized cement" was created, is in order. Was (…)