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"Leave All Blades Behind" -Rally at O'Hare!

AFA Members will be leafleting this week in conjunction with the "Leave All Blades Behind International Day of Action" on Monday, January 30, 2006. Join us in demanding that we rei...

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Global Economy Complicates Outsourcing!

"The fundamental issue has always been employment security," said Charles Bofferding, executive director of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace. "Outsour...

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U.S. Union Workforce Remains Steady in 2005!

The percentage of union members in the U.S. work force held steady last year, at least temporarily halting years of steady decline, according to figures released by the Bureau of L...

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Outsourcing Here To Stay?

BANGALORE: What better proof about the acceptance of outsourcing as a business model than the India visit of John Kerry, the US presidential candidate for 2004, whose poll plank wa...

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01/13/06 SAGO MINE- "An Injury To One, Is An Injury To All!"

The mine explosion at the Sago Mine, just outside of Buckhannon, West Virginia, where 12 miners lost their lives and one miner is in critical condition is a tragedy at many levels;...

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High-Tech Workers Feel Betrayed By Visa Hires!

Two U.S. representatives from North Jersey said last week that they have taken up the cause of the displaced American workers with legislation that would close loopholes in the vis...

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Security Conference Focuses on Collaboration!

ORLANDO -- All oars went into the water this week at the inaugural Homeland Security for Networked Industries conference in Orlando, Fla., as representatives from the government, c...

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More Companies Ending Promises for Retirement!

Pension advocates said they were dismayed that rich and powerful companies like I.B.M. and Verizon would abandon traditional pensions. "With Verizon, we're talking about a company ...

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Department of Labor Agrees to Provide Required Job Training to Workers Whose Jobs Were Outsourced

WASHINGTON, D.C. ? A federal judge in El Paso has entered an order ending a lawsuit filed by Spanish-speaking workers who lost their jobs in the wake of NAFTA and sued the U.S. Dep...

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CIGNA Offshoring 109 U.S. Jobs To Philippines!

CIGNA HealthCare said Friday it will lay off 109 service employees nationwide, including 56 in Bloomfield, as it outsources the work offshore, another expense-cutting move in the c...

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