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Matters new to the committee this year included forced labor at cocoa plantations, race disparities in the cost of consumer loans, the manufacture of products triggering asthma in children, and the storage of hazardous materials near communities...
...decide if the workers will keep their jobs in the long term. “Regarding claims of ethnic discrimination, we take such accusations very seriously,” he wrote in an e-mail. “We have asked the Harvard University Office of Labor Relations to investigate these claims and they are in the process of doing so as quickly and judiciously as possible.” The procession paused at multiple points for protestors to take turns at the megaphone to give speeches, which were translated into Spanish by Diana C. Montoya-Fontalvo...
...show up at the polls. Rodriguez defeated Bonilla more than two to one in early voting in San Antonio, evidence that the vaunted Republican get-out-the-vote effort fell short, Masset said. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee pumped "about a million dollars into the race," according to Hernandez. Labor unions and grassroots volunteers also worked the campaign...
...race to Kuomintang (KMT) candidate Hau Lung-bin by about 13%. But Taipei, a KMT stronghold, was a race the DPP was expected to lose. In Kaohsiung, on the other hand, the DPP has held the mayoral seat for the past eight years. DPP candidate Chen Chu, an ex-labor minister and former political prisoner, won by 1,114 votes, just .14% of the total 767,868 ballots cast. She had trailed in opinion polls in the weeks before the election and acknowledged that the corruption allegations involving the President were an obstacle. KMT candidate Huang Jun-ying, a former...
...unjustified: the carnival tradition helped fire up the French revolutionary crowds as well as uprisings of slaves and colonized peoples from the Caribbean to West Africa. When the Industrial Revolution took hold, holidays were eliminated in favor of the new work ethic: people were increasingly expected to labor all day, six days a week, and spend the Sabbath in sedentary prayer. A few traditional- style festivities survived--Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Carnaval in Rio and carnival in Cologne. But by and large, sometime in the past 300 years, the music stopped...