Cleaning Companies in Accord With Striking Houston Janitors
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A tentative contract to end the monthlong strike would raise the janitorsÂ hourly wages by nearly 50 percent over two years and provide them health coverage.
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The Weinstein Co., the film and TV company run by sibling media moguls Harvey and Bob Weinstein, has reached a deal to allow striking Hollywood writers to return to work for the studio, a company spokesman said on Thursday.
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BP BP.L was working to clean up a   thousand barrels of gas oil that spilled from a pipeline at the   Port of Long Beach, near Los Angeles, according to local media   reports.
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By Dan Voorhis, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Jun. 6--Wichita's plumbers, electricians and HVAC mechanics are going back to school.
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Workers at Swedish retail clothing chain Hennes and Mauritz's French warehouse in Le Bourget, outside Paris, voted to end a three-week-old strike after accepting management's salary hike proposals.
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Immigration officials raided a trash hauling company northeast of Houston on Wednesday, and local media said dozens of workers were rounded up.
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The Department of Labor reached a settlement with a contractor for the Target Corporation had not paid overtime to hundreds of immigrant janitors who often worked seven nights a week.
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Clerical workers presented their final offer to shipping companies Saturday after all-night contract talks aimed at preventing a strike at the nation's largest port complex.
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Houston has long been eclipsed by its hipper sisters, SoHo and NoHo. As change looms, now is the time to savor its singular charms.
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In a show of support for an impending campaign by the Service Employees International Union to organize workers at the Boston's teaching hospitals, city councillors voted 10-0 in favor of a resolution calling for hospital executives to sign "free and fair election agreements." Such agreements replace federal labor organizing procedures with rules that can make it easier for a union ...
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The Weinstein Co., the film and TV company run by sibling media moguls Harvey and Bob Weinstein, has reached an agreement to allow striking Hollywood writers to return to work for the company, a company spokesman said on Thursday.
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Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Dell, which were accused earlier this year of having "dire working conditions" at factories outside the United States, announced Wednesday that they have agreed on a "code of conduct" for the treatment of workers and the environment.
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The United Auto Workers said on Friday that members have ratified a deal that gives Delphi Corp.  concessions on wages, benefits and plant closings the auto parts maker has said it must have to exit bankruptcy.
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A settlement was reached on Sunday evening bringing an end to a strike by drivers of the Concordia and Connex bus companies in the Helsinki area, as well as related solidarity strikes called by the Finnish ...
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Amazon.com Inc., Coca-Cola Co., FedEx Corp. and Pfizer Inc. are among US companies that have taken steps to provide aid to the survivors of the earthquake and tsunamis that struck South Asia on Dec. 26.
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Nearly three years to the day of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, lawyers for more than 800 "Ground Zero" rescue and clean-up workers announced Monday a billion-dollar class-action lawsuit against owners of the World Trade Center for exposing the workers to allegedly toxic conditions.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Thousands of San Francisco hotel workers embroiled in a labor dispute will return to work Tuesday under an agreement announced Saturday by Mayor Gavin Newsom before a crowd of beaming employees and relieved hotel representatives.