Word: heeling
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...Smithfield, the trouble began when the company voluntarily entered into a program with the Immigration Customs and Enforcement agency to review Social Security numbers of workers, after immigration agents raided a plant in Virginia and found several undocumented workers. About 500 to 600 workers at the Tar Heel plant were found to have Social Security numbers that could not be verified, and Smithfield fired the workers. The workers argued that the company did not give them enough time to resolve their Social Security problems. (Not every person with Social Security problems was illegal; some numbers may not have matched because...
Julio Vargas sits quietly in a small gray house in Red Springs, North Carolina, making notes in his native Spanish before another day of working to organize Smithfield Foods meatpacking workers. Vargas, originally from Mexico, was fired from his sanitation contractor job for Smithfield, in nearby Tar Heel, N.C., in 2003 after protesting working conditions. Now, an organizer for the United Food Commercial Workers Union, he is part of a growing nationwide effort to organize what was once considered a no-win labor population: Latino immigrant workers...
...Paulo Melim Andersson, 34, formerly design director of the popular Italian label Marni. Melim Andersson has big shoes to fill: under Philo's direction, Chloé became one of fashion's hottest brands, spurring mile-long wait lists for such must-have items as the Betty handbag and chunky stack-heel boots. Melim Andersson's first collection for Chloé will debut in Paris in March...
...Israeli forces and Palestinian militants in the Gaza strip, three rockets went thudding into empty fields in Israel. Nobody was hurt, but it was a sign that once again, the Palestinian authorities can make all the promises they want, but they cannot bring Gaza?s armed militant groups to heel...
Broken stiletto heel while strutting down Broadway? Cat fights at the designer discount outlet? Harvard alumna Claire S. Sulmers ’03 has been through it all and lived to tell about it in her blog “The Fashion Bomb,” accessible through her personal website, clairesulmers.com...