Word: labors
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...opposes, which will require the company--along with Target, Home Depot and other giant retailers--to pay a starting wage of $10 an hour, plus $3 in benefits, to anyone hired in the Windy City. The living-wage ordinance, passed by the city council after ferocious campaigning by organized labor and its business opponents, is the country's first directed at big retailers. Once enacted, it's set to be phased in over three years, beginning next July. Chicago's law, despite likely court challenges, is already prompting other cities such as Washington and Boston to pursue similar legislation...
After years of failed attempts to unionize big-box stores, labor seems to have hit on a winning legislative tactic in the battle over pay. Congress hasn't acted in nearly a decade, and although 140 local living-wage laws have been enacted in the U.S., most apply just to city workers or contractors. Union leaders say the Chicago rule means a long-overdue raise for the working poor. In real terms, wages for nonmanagerial retail workers have fallen 18% since 1975. But David Vite, president of the Illinois Retail Merchants Association, says the law could deter inner-city economic...
...Mexico, where they must avoid invisible rocks that rip the bottoms off boats. Lightning fries navigation systems, and storms sweep men off deck. Their only connections to the rest of the world are radios and unreliable cellular phone reception.And the shrimpers themselves are notorious, too. After trying day labor and construction, they often drift to this profession, where there is no boss but the ocean. As we sped farther into the Gulf, Chris scrutinized the regional section of the paper. He wanted to see his friends’ names, he joked.I worked with the people who photographed and wrote that...
...Watching Schwarzenegger?s summer surge, the Angelides camp is surely hoping that the political adage about voters not focusing on fall elections until after Labor Day holds true this time around. Still bandaged from his bruising and expensive Democratic primary in June, the Treasurer is facing Republican Party TV ads that repeat accusations from his Democratic rival that he will levy billions in new taxes. Angelides counters that the new assessments would apply only to the wealthy and to corporations. He also tried to erase doubts among the crowd at a Democratic meeting last weekend saying, "No matter how many...
...threat, say senior DHS officals. When it became clear the arrests would be wrapped up around 1 a.m Washington time, Chertoff got on a conference call with his Homeland Security Advisory Committee to approve changing the threat level. Then calls went out to the airlines, airline security companies and labor unions affected by the changes, as well as to members of Congress...