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Grand Forks gears up for a summer of construction
Grand Forks HeraldConstruction is expected to be booming in Grand Forks this summer despite a late start and a shortage of workers. Cool spring weather kept snow and frost hanging around longer than usual and many contractors out of the ground until this month. A need...Tags: Marketing, Employment Opportunities, House Building, Career and Workplace, Employment
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Tech, labor brandish dueling studies in immigration fight
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The technology industry and organized labor are locked in a fight that threatens to complicate the U.S. Senate's immigration bill. At the heart of the debate is whether there is a shortage of Americans with the math and science...Tags: Science and Technology, Personal Data Collection, Barack Obama, Interior Policy, Immigration
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Hon Hai struggling to meet its overtime deadline for July 1
China PostTAIPEI (The China Post/ANN) -- Although Hon Hai Precision has made a lot of progress in working conditions at its Chinese factories, the company still faces a challenge in trying to meet a July 1 deadline for cutting working hours. The Fair Labor...Tags: Science and Technology, Consumer Goods Industries, Electronics, Germany, Taipei (Taiwan)
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Obama Debases Trust In Government
The Hartford CourantLast week was amusing. There was the spectacle of advocates of an ever-larger regulatory government expressing shock about such government's large capacity for misbehavior. And, entertainingly, the answer to the question "Will Barack Obama's scandals...Tags: Mitt Romney, Executive Branch, Barack Obama, Lamar Alexander, Internal Revenue Service
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Bridgeport Is Worse Off Than Stockton
Stockton is one of California's larger cities. Nearly a year ago, its city council voted to file for bankruptcy. This is the largest municipal bankruptcy filing in the nation's history. Bridgeport, however, is in worse financial condition that Stockton...Tags: Judges, Employees, Politics, Justice System, Interior Policy
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Tom Croci, Islip supervisor, called to active duty
NewsdayIslip Supervisor Tom Croci announced Thursday that he has been recalled to active duty in the U.S. Navy and will temporarily leave his post as town leader starting in mid-July for an overseas tour that is expected to last until the spring. "Obviously...Tags: MacArthur Airport, Barack Obama, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Politics, U.S. Navy
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Wilmington hurting from labor shortage in construction
Star-News, Wilmington, N.C.A shortage of skilled construction workers has developed in Wilmington and other areas of North Carolina even as overall employment in the field continues to fall. It has made it harder for smaller and custom residential builders to deal with increasing...Tags: Employment Opportunities, House Building, Housing Industry, Career and Workplace, Ocean Ridge
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GOP senators on committee target three labor nominees from Buffalo
The Buffalo NewsThree men from Buffalo, one absent and two present, were the targets of grilling from Republicans on a Senate committee Thursday over matters that sometimes seemed personal but in the end are profound for every working person in America. The absent...Tags: Lamar Alexander, Employment Opportunities, Court Administration, Justice System, Politics
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UPDATE 3-Mine union threatens to bring South Africa to "standstill"
Reuters* Mineworkers union leader demands meeting with Zuma * ANC deputy president says hard to tell what is going on * Rand slides to four-year low against dollar By Xola Potelwa RUSTENBURG, South Africa, May 17 (Reuters) - The leader of South Africa's...Tags: Mining, Lonmin Plc, South Africa, Africa, Radio
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Mine union threatens to bring South Africa to 'standstill'
ReutersRUSTENBURG, South Africa (Reuters) - The leader of South Africa's biggest platinum mining union threatened on Friday to bring Africa's No. 1 economy "to a standstill" and demanded a meeting with President Jacob Zuma, ramping up the rhetoric in an 18-month...Tags: Mining, Anglo American Platinum Limited, Lonmin Plc, South Africa, Africa
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Isle jobless rate slips to 5-year low
The Honolulu Star-AdvertiserA slow but steady strengthening of Hawaii's job market pushed the state's unemployment rate below 5 percent in April for the first time since late 2008, the state Department of Labor and Industrial Relations reported Thursday. The unemployment rate...Tags: Unemployment Rate, Marketing, Advertising, Employment Opportunities, Business
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