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'Fashion Police' Strike: Both Sides Dig in on Eve of Rally
ReutersMay 23 (TheWrap.com) - With the strike by nine writers on E! Entertainment's "Fashion Police" nearly five weeks old, both sides were digging in for the long haul Wednesday. While the writers were preparing to set up an 11 a.m. picket line and rally in...Tags: E! Entertainment Television, Inc., Politics, Chelsea Lately (tv program), Writers Guild of America, Television
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Steve Lopez: Labor unions the big loser in mayor's race
Labor gambled and lost. Wendy Greuel drove away much of her own base. And it's done. After two years of campaigning and more than $30 million of spinning, the next mayor of Los Angeles will be Eric Garcetti, who doesn't exactly have what you'd call...
Tags: Politics, Local Elections, Richard Riordan, Voting, Career and Workplace
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UC medical center strike: Most union members reported for work
As University of California patient care workers returned to the picket lines in a workplace dispute Wednesday, hospital administrators said they were gratified that so many union members chose to come to work rather than strike. More than three-...
Tags: University of California, Davis, University of California, Irvine, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, AFSCME, Hospitals and Clinics
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Strike at UC medical centers continues; more picketing Wednesday
As the afternoon wore on, the number of union members on the picket lines at the University of California medical centers started to thin. But hundreds of workers concerned about staffing levels and pension reforms planned to continue striking...
Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, AFSCME, Hospitals and Clinics, Career and Workplace
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L.A. firefighters vote against more dues for political campaigns
Members of the union representing Los Angeles firefighters voted down a proposal to increase dues to finance aggressive political campaigns, union leaders said Tuesday. The leadership of United Firefighters of Los Angeles City wanted members to pay...
Tags: Politics, Voting, Career and Workplace, Lima (Peru), Elections
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UC hospitals cancel surgeries, divert patients amid strike
A strike by University of California patient care workers Tuesday caused the cancellation of hundreds of surgeries, the closure of laboratory stations and the diversion of emergency room patients, officials said. The hospitals prepared for the two-day...
Tags: Politics, Hospitals and Clinics, Strikes, Nursing, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Sri Lanka opposition says government threatened to sack strikers
ReutersCOLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's opposition parties and trade unions accused the government on Tuesday of threatening state employees with the sack if they took part in planned street protests against a sharp rise in electricity prices. Only a few hundred...Tags: Parliament, Employees, Electricity Production and Distribution, Politics, National Government
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Fort Monroe self-emancipators' courageous act changed the world
In 2012, Fort Monroe's official May 24 history celebration arrived the way the undersized, counterproductively divided Fort Monroe National Monument had arrived: notably late and wrongly defined. Officials were celebrating Fort Monroe events from 1861...Tags: U.S. Congress, Slavery, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), National Parks, Fort Monroe
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Healthcare workers strike at five California public hospitals
ReutersSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Thousands of healthcare workers walked off the job at the University of California's five medical centers on Tuesday, delaying emergency care, surgeries, diagnostic procedures and other medical treatment throughout the state....Tags: Colleges and Universities, Dwayne Johnson, MRI (imaging), Collective Contract, Labor Markets
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Ex-executives of Ford's Argentina subsidiary charged in torture of workers during dictatorship
Associated PressBUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Three former Ford Motor Co. executives were charged Tuesday with crimes against humanity for allegedly targeting Argentine union workers for kidnapping and torture after the country's 1976 military coup. All three men...Tags: Politics, Argentina, Criminals, Prisons, Conservation
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Two-day walkout begins at five UC medical centers
A massive walkout of University of California patient care workers that began Tuesday could cost the system's medical centers up to $20 million, officials say. The walkout is expected to last two days and involve more than 12,000 UC workers from the ...
Tags: Science and Technology, Judges, Chemotherapy, Crime, Law and Justice, Hospitals and Clinics
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