Word: laboral
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...economy lost 598,000 jobs in January, more than most economists expected and the biggest percentage decline since May 1980. That brought the unemployment rate to 7.6%, a level it last reached in the summer of 1992, according to data released by the Department of Labor on Feb. 6. Just one year ago, the unemployment rate...
...suggest that the worst may well be yet to come. The overall unemployment rate, which lags what's going on in terms of economic production, tells us more about what has happened than where we're headed - and the forward-looking news is equally grim. On Feb. 5, the Labor Department reported that 626,000 people made first-time claims for state jobless benefits in the week ending Jan. 31, more than economists expected and the most since 1982. The total number of people collecting unemployment now stands at nearly 4.8 million, the most since at least 1967, though...
Leadership from the Student Labor Action Movement and the Harvard-Radcliffe Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transsexual, and Supporters Alliance declared their support for the dining hall staff union’s efforts to strengthen the anti-discrimination language of their contract at an open meeting last night. The two student organizations also plan to campaign to broaden the scope of the university’s anti-discrimination policy to include all workers. Students met with four dining hall workers to prepare a reaction to allegedly anti-gay remarks made by a manager in a dining hall a few weeks ago. According...
...Springsteen, Bruce • acknowledgement by that deal giving exclusivity on greatest hits CD to labor-unfriendly Wal-Mart was, well, idiotic • crotch-first slide into camera of during Super Bowl performance...
Royal is also harsh with Martine Aubry, the former Labor Minister under whom Royal served as Secretary of State in the late 1990s. Aubry narrowly beat Royal for the party leadership last November. "Despite the primary, the presidential election and a more than honorable score, I'm still her junior minister, and [Aubry] will never see me otherwise," Royal contends, adding that her rival also served as a proxy for male Socialist elephants to deny Royal the party leadership. "They found a woman to battle another woman on the logic we'd beat each other bloody, and they could step...