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		<title>LCBO and union strike last-minute deal, avert strike</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 04:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A strike of almost 7,000 Liquor Control Board of Ontario employees has been averted as both sides reached a tentative deal Thursday night, a few hours shy of a midnight deadline. “We have a new tentative agreement with our 6,700 unionized employees,” said LCBO spokeswoman Heather MacGregor at a press conference. “The ratification process will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Labor unions see the future in white-collar workers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 04:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As an overall trend, union membership rates in the U.S. are declining. The Department of Laborreports just 11.3% of America&#8217;s wage and salary workers were union members last year, down from 11.8% in 2011. Compare that with 1983, the first year comparable data became available: The overall U.S. union membership rate was 20.1%. &#160; The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greek teachers defy military mobilisation orders</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 04:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greek teachers have voted to oppose the mobilisation order of the government and commence a strike on Friday to coincide with the start of the annual exam period. At the same time, the OLME teachers’ union is doing all it can to prevent the strike from taking place. On Tuesday evening, regional conferences of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thousands of nurses set to strike at East Bay Sutter hospitals</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 04:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OAKLAND, Calif. — More than 3,000 registered nurses at Sutter hospitals throughout the East Bay are planning to walk out on the job on Friday to kick off a 7-day protest against Sutter&#8217;s demands for pay and benefit cuts. The nurses plan to picket at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center&#8217;s three campuses in Berkeley and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teamsters back away from representing O’Hare janitors</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 04:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s allies in the Teamsters union leadership have backed away from trying to represent airport janitors who work for a private company the mayor hired last year over the objections of other labor leaders. The Service Employees International Union had complained that hundreds of its members lost their jobs &#160; &#160; Read more]]></description>
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		<title>Turkish Airlines says staff shun union’s strike call</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 04:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL: Turkish Airlines said there had been little impact Wednesday from a strike in protest over pay and previous sackings, saying the low turnout was a “scandal” for the company’s main union. The head of labor union Hava-Is, which represents 14,000 of the airline’s 15,800 workers, in turn accused management of intimidation to undermine the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OSHA tags in on workplace violence issue, takes it to the court</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 04:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)is suing an employer for an employee&#8217;s claims that she was subjected to workplace violence concerns in violation of Section 11(c) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. Section 11(c) of the Act, often referred to as the whistleblower or anti-retaliation provision of the Act, prohibits an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As Liquor-Store Strike Looms, Ontarians Advised to Stock Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 04:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gather ye liquor while ye may, Ontario, because on Friday – the start of a long weekend in Canada — workers at the provinces 630 liquor stores may well be on strike. While a strike doesn’t necessarily mean the Liquor Control Board of Ontario’s retail outlets will be completely shuttered, it could make for long, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did Thermo Fisher know about the drug cartel in its midst?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 04:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The private equity &#8216;drug deal&#8217; that should have never happened. FORTUNE &#8212; Private equity firm OpenGate Capital is suing lab equipment giant Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO), claiming that it was duped into buying a business whose primary manufacturing facility had been overrun by a Mexican drug cartel. It is a bizarre case, and basically will ask [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California hospital workers vote overwhelmingly to strike</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 04:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, 13,000 patient care workers at five University of California (UC) Medical Centers voted by a 97 percent margin in favor of a strike against terms of a new austerity contract. On May 10, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) filed a 10-day strike notice to the UC Office of [...]]]></description>
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