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"Showdown In Chicago" Tuesday, October 27, 2009!

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! IF YOU ARE ABLE - PLEASE join us outside the American Bankers Association convention to demand common sense financial reform that helps us rebuild ...

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CWA: FCC Rulemaking on Open Internet Should Support Investment in Networks, Job Creation

The Communications Workers of America has called on the Federal Communications Commission to ensure that its rulemaking process and discussions on how to preserve a free and open I...

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CWA's Bottom Line: Real Health Care Reform, No Tax on Benefits

The health care bill that passed the Senate Finance Committee this week would be a disaster for working families and retirees. CWA is continuing to work with the Obama administrati...

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CWA District 6 Reaches Tentative Agreement at AT$T Southwest

CWA District 6 and AT&T have reached a tentative four-year agreement covering 27,000 CWA-represented workers at AT&T Southwest. The tentative agreement provides for wage increases ...

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MORE: On The Recovery School District In New Orleans

As explained in the previous newsletter, the Recovery School District in the New Orleans, Louisiana area has been hiring H-1B school teachers from the Philippines. Th...

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H-1 B Visa Scandal In New Orleans, Louisianna

A new H-1B scandal is making the news -- this time it involves H-1B teachers from the Philippines that were hired to work in the Recovery School District in New Orlea...

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Six-Member Union Stalls Deal For Sun-Times Media Group

When a bankruptcy judge in Delaware approved Chicago financier Jim Tyree's $26.5 million bid to save Sun-Times Media Group Inc. from extinction last week, Steve Berman and the six ...

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U.S. Can't Trace Foreign Visitors on Expired Visas

DALLAS - Eight years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and despite repeated mandates from Congress, the United States still has no reliable system for verifying that foreign vis...

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"Digital Cowboys" Author: Dennis Bouwman

"Digital Cowboys" which has been introduced by its author Dennis Bouwman during our ICTS inaugural conference in Dublin. Digital Cowboys, Developments in the labour market for self...

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10/10/09 Louisiana Federation of Teachers: Company Violated Law and Human Rights of Filipino Teachers

A company that recruited foreign teachers to work in Louisiana schools is guilty of cheating those teachers out of thousands of dollars and holding them in virtual servitude, accor...

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