Word: labors
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...while Castro-Wright and his team plan the Wal-Mart of the future, the company's legal team has been fighting the same old ugly labor battles. Wal-Mart has been tarred by an ongoing gender-discrimination class action filed in California in 2001, and it recently was ordered to pay $62 million in penalties on top of the $78.5 million judgment awarded by a jury last year after it found Wal-Mart guilty of shortchanging associates in Pennsylvania who worked during their breaks or after they clocked out. (Wal-Mart says it will appeal.) Nor has it looked...
...don’t go into some alternative career,” Parent says.Many of the Parsons designers’ collections will be included in a charity auction that will follow the show. Proceeds from the auction will go to the Confucius Foundation, which provides scholarships to child laborers working in sweatshops that produce fake luxury goods and allow them to attend school.“Not only are we helping to give children an education, but we are also making sure there is less of a labor force for fake luxury goods, which is a terrible problem...
...incredibly ironic that at the very moment he speaks at Harvard University, he is presiding over an unprecedented crackdown on Bangladeshi academic institutions,” Emran Qureshi, a fellow at Harvard Law School’s Labor and Worklife Program, told The Crimson in a phone interview Monday...
...important union endorsements for Edwards, who trails in overall fundraising behind both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama by more than $50 million. Edwards has won support from seven Iowa unions - a huge boon to the campaign because it effectively shuts out Obama from bringing in any outside organized labor support. Obama has no Iowa union endorsements; Hillary leads the field with eight...
...However bad the allegations, this diplomat stresses too many questions remain to be answered before the innocence of the six aid workers and their backers should be doubted. The stakes in an unfair conviction would be far too high, he says: 20 years of hard labor for the Zoe's Ark members, and years of additional difficulty for other NGOs operating in the area...