A Defeat for Rocky Flats Workers
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A federal panel chooses a go-slow approach to investigating whether workers got cancer at the nuclear weapons facility
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Forget Apollo Creed and Ivan Drago. Rocky's greatest victory   was against the Philadelphia Arts Commission.
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The first effort in the nation to impose minimum wage regulations on Âbig-boxÂ stores unraveled.
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The construction industry comes under fire from unions for its "failure" to act to prevent workplace fatalities.
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Union members at four BFGoodrich Tire Manufacturing plants will vote this week on a tentative contract that would avoid a strike by about 3,400 US workers and end a walkout about 1,100 more employees in Canada.
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When 1,800 workers lost their jobs after a Maytag appliance factory and headquarters closed last year in the small town of Newton, Iowa, a wind turbine blade company saw opportunity Â an available, skilled workforce in the middle of one of America's hardiest wind energy production regions.
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The so-called "living-wage" ordinance that would have required mega-retailers here to pay their workers higher wages was successfully turned back Wednesday as supporters on the City Council could not muster enough votes override Mayor Richard Daley's veto.
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GEORGETOWN, Ky. -- Dissident workers at the Toyota plant here gather at the Best Western Georgetown on Wednesdays between shifts to shape a battle plan. The workers are angry at conditions at this flagship Toyota site, where the best-selling Camry is built.
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Steelworkers strike after the world's third largest tire maker and the steelworkers union failed to agree on a new labor contract
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Northern Rock's government guarantee achieves limited success.
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Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. , the largest U.S. tire maker, reported a wider quarterly loss on Friday due to a nearly three-month strike that cost the company $367 million.
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Top federal safety officials urged the Labor Department in 2006 to adopt critical regulations to prevent deadly dust explosions Â like the one suspected in the deadly blast in a Georgia sugar plant Thursday Â but the government has failed to do so.
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Many small-business employees have no access to retirement plans at work.
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SOUTHFIELD, Mich - Chrysler LLC's contract with the United Auto Workers has been rejected by most large union locals representing auto-assembly plants during the first four days of voting, dimming prospects for the accord's approval, though it has been supported by smaller groups.
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State and federal regulators are testing the claims of critics who say secret grand jury evidence from the early 1990s proves that Rocky Flats is too dangerous to become a wildlife refuge.
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Although only a test, the failure of the US National Missile defense Program yesterday was seen as a major setback for the program.
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By The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Jun. 13--When it comes to natural resources, whether the issue is endangered species, air, water or federal lands, the unfailing response of the Bush administration has been to seek fewer protections.