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Striking LAX workers return to jobs
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersStriking Los Angeles International Airport workers returned to work this morning, less than 24 hours after baggage handlers, security personnel and janitors walked off the job Thursday following months of failed negotiations with their employers. The...Tags: Private Health Care, Labor Legislation, Antonio Villaraigosa, Los Angeles, Health Treatments
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Pro-union Starbucks barista gets his job back
AP Business WriterA barista who said he was fired from Starbucks Corp. for helping to organize fellow workers into a union has been given his job back. In a preliminary reinstatement agreement dated Aug. 14 obtained by The Associated Press, Starbucks said its firing of...Tags: Labor Legislation, Work Relations, Minnesota, Starbucks Corporation, Public Employees
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Wolfgang Vogel, go-between in Cold War spy swaps, dies
WASHINGTON - Wolfgang Vogel, an East German lawyer who became the go-between for thousands of spy swaps and prisoner exchanges during the Cold War, died Aug. 21 at his home in the Bavarian city of Schliersee after a heart attack. He was 82. An unofficial...Tags: Diseases, Heart Disease, Helmut Schmidt, Erich Honecker
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Labor pains: the sequel
Preparations for a possible actors strike may have caused on-location feature film shoots in Los Angeles to decline in the past two months, according to a local permitting agency. Major Hollywood studios hurried production of some movies and delayed...Tags: Strikes, William Friedkin, Movies, John McCain, Los Angeles
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11 Ill. parks to close among hundreds of layoffs
AP Political WriterThirteen state historic sites and 11 parks will close, and human services will be affected as the Blagojevich administration said Thursday it will lay off 325 workers. The tourist attractions include the reconstructed log cabin of Abraham Lincoln's...Tags: Tom Green, Tour Operations Industry, Unemployment, Tourism and Leisure, Employees
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Boeing sweetens offer to machinists union
From Chicago Tribune news servicesBoeing Co., hoping to smooth a volatile relationship with its largest labor union and avoid a costly strike next week, gave its machinists a final contract offer Thursday that would increase pay and benefits by $34,000 on average over three years....Tags: Oregon, Strikes, Wages and Pensions, Retirement, Employees
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Chicago Park District may lay off up to 10 percent of employees
Chicago Tribune reporterThe Chicago Park District is trying to lay off up to 10 percent of its workers to fill an expected $24 million budget shortfall next year. The effect on parks and programs is unknown, but park officials said Thursday that up to 300 employees will be...Tags: Conservation, Layoffs and Downsizing, Unemployment, Richard M. Daley, Chicago Park District
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Labor board says Foxwoods retaliated against union
news and financial services. NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) _ The National Labor Relations Board has issued a complaint alleging Foxwoods Resort Casino broke the law by retaliating against a new union and refusing to bargain in good faith. The United Auto...Tags: Labor Legislation, Tourism and Leisure, Employees, Foxwoods Resort Casino, Work Relations
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Race: Experts are unsure of its impact
Of The Morning CallWith the Democratic convention behind him, Barack Obama kicks off the stretch run of his campaign with an underlying uncertainty clouding the party's optimism: How much will skin color matter in November? It's a subject that neither party is particularly...Tags: Football, Election Day, Local Elections, National Government, L. Douglas Wilder
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LAX workers go on strike, threatening Labor Day weekend travel
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThreatening to inconvenience air travelers throughout the Labor Day weekend, several hundred airline service workers -- including baggage handlers, security personnel and janitors -- walked off the job Thursday at Los Angeles International Airport after...Tags: Private Health Care, Air Transportation, Jose Hernandez, Transportation Industry, Labor Day
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LAX workers go on strike, threatening Labor Day weekend disruptions
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThreatening to inconvenience air travelers throughout the Labor Day weekend, several hundred airline service workers - including baggage handlers, security personnel and janitors - walked off the job today Thursday at Los Angeles International Airport...Tags: Public Holidays, Private Health Care, Air Transportation, Transportation, Los Angeles
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A Look Inside
Baseball's replay central is an 18-by-24 foot room on the fifth floor of a former baking factory in Manhattan's Meatpacking District that's crammed with so many computers and television screens that it looks like NASA's Mission Control. Five monitors...Tags: Baseball, Pedro Alvarez, Work Relations, National Government, Contracts
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