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...workers who would have their hours slashed," Becker said. He added that Hurley of America held a similar meeting for its workers roughly a week later, but invited union representatives to attend.Gingo said that the cost savings from the janitorial service reductions were part of the $77 million in budget cuts announced by FAS earlier in the spring. While Gingo would not rule out the possibility of further changes in the future, he said that there have not been and currently are no discussions of further custodial cuts in FAS.SEIU officials have said for months that the University has failed...
...Lion's Den, says it was "preposterous" to think Six could have defended "a statute doomed to failure." The case could have easily cost Kansas $150,000 or more to pursue, Murray says. Six's office notes that former Kansas attorney general Phil Kline once spent more than $1 million in state tax dollars defending a legal opinion on requiring health-care providers to report teenage sex; he lost the case...
...Ethiopia remains caught in a deadly cycle of drought and famine, aid agencies warn that erratic rainfall and ever-rising food costs are compounding the problems carried over from last year's drought to leave 6.2 million people in need of food assistance, on top of the 7.5 million already getting aid from the government...
...more faith in the government. "I used to be more positive and thought that civil society would really take off in China after the earthquake," says Deng. "But more than a year later, we haven't seen any substantial progress." Since the initial onrush of 300 NGOs and 3 million volunteers in the months after the disaster, the damaged regions now have only about 50 NGOs and 50,000 volunteers, according to the study. "Most of them have retreated as the craze faded away," says Deng. "Even if the NGOs had money in their hands, most of them wouldn...
When a devastating earthquake hit China's Sichuan province in May 2008, one bright spot in the disaster was the massive outpouring of support from across the country. In the weeks following the magnitude 8.0 quake, millions of Chinese contributed to relief efforts, either in cash donations or volunteer labor. Cars and trucks loaded with clothes, bottled water and instant noodles streamed into the disaster zone, where nearly 90,000 people had been killed and 5 million left homeless. The response was so overwhelming that authorities blocked roads and turned away volunteers because they threatened to overwhelm official rescue work...