Down Tools, It's Labor Day
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Wired News offers a thinner post than usual as we pause to honor workers everywhere ... by not working. We return to our normal publishing schedule on Tuesday.
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NORTON -- Yesterday was for tents and monster boards, cable wires and metal stakes, props and trash cans.
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By Larry HendricksTwenty-one men, women and children walked from the visitor center out into Labor Day sunshine at Lowell Observatory on Monday.
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As Camilo Villegas bent over to put his peg in the ground late yesterday, work came to a screeching halt at the front end of the first tee box. There was a makeshift stage to disassemble, yes, but with a golf ball set to scream their way, well, the workers had a safety issue to address.
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It is 4:45 p.m. West Coast time: It is like a nuclear bomb went off here in San Diego. We have been evacuated from our home early this a.m.
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Along Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights, Queens, job seekers need one very specific skill: the day laborer dive.
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LOS ANGELES  - The weather gods might  make the studios' transition into fall a more difficult  proposition during the Labor Day weekend as Hurricane Frances  heads toward southern Florida.
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The MR2 is built. Dear god, I am sore and tired. &nbsp;It started Friday night and was expected to be a job done by Saturday afternoon. Sunday afternoon rolls around and we're still smashing things... There's odds and ends to clean up (I'm absolutely sure it needs an alignment and set of plugs) but otherwise I am done working on cars for quite awhile.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 3 -- The morning fog was still burning off the Allegheny River as workers gathered before 9 a.m. outside the hockey arena where a parade through downtown would later begin -- the electricians, the sheet-metal workers, the operating engineers, and, in greatest number, the coal...
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Labor unions are asking the Bush administration for an unlikely Labor Day present -- to make it easier for them to organize workers.
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These guys are down, but are they out?
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Dana Corp. plans to close an iron foundry in Muskegon by early August, eliminating 240 jobs, employees were told Wednesday. The Toledo, Ohio-based auto parts maker plans to outsource its piston ring casting
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US President George W. Bush marked Labor Day with a call for lower taxes and expanding nuclear power to ease US dependence on foreign oil.
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LABOR DAY weekend at the Wal-Mart here was a great shopping scene for children. As they pushed carts brimming with new notebooks, clothes and shoes through the aisles, they got a small preview
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The signs of labor unrest seen over the weekend may be a harbinger of things to come in an industry already buffeted by bankruptcies and structural change.
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It's not exactly backbreaking work. Go to the Statue of Liberty. See "Aida" on Broadway. Shop at Bloomingdale's. Ride a tour boat around the island of Manhattan. And buy a funny hat.
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No, tell us how you really feel. This Labor Day, workers are saying their biggest work problems are mostly economic. Their pay is not keeping up with increasing health-care costs or other increases in living expenses. They are disgruntled enough to look for work on the job. Retirement "security"...