Do CTA workers greet you?
2009-11-24 22:58:00 Kenneth Buie wrote to "Going Public" with a suggested gift the CTA could give riders. Do you think CTA customer service assistants do a good job greeting riders?"What about a bus or train greeter? That would be nice to have a CTA employee greet you the minute you get on the train platform."...
Co-workers
2009-11-17 19:04:00 As most of us start or soon hope to begin this lovely thing we call a "career" my attention turns to the ever popular co-workers, we all have them whether we like it or not. Me, personally I've been at my current job for five years, and like most people become accustom to seeing the same people, over and over and over and OVER again. If you think about it you spend over 40 hours a week with these people, more than your friends, significant others, etc. In my office there is even an on going joke that a male co-worker of mine is my "work husband".....(oh he only wishes!) ;-)So as we are able to pick and choose our...
Rider: Hey CTA workers, be nice or quit
2009-11-16 20:00:00 A rider wrote to "Going Public" about a bad bus experience. Her letter continues after the jump. Information about the bus and its driver have been redacted."[Sunday] morning, I rode the No. 65 Grand bus [redacted] with driver [redacted] from the Blue Line stop to Navy Pier.A family of four with kids 10 and younger got on the bus at the same stop. According to the bus driver, their son was 'too big' to comply with the fare rates set for younger children and tried to kick them all off when they didn't have enough money on their fare cards to cover him, even though the parents had paid for their rides.She argued with them through the next two bus...
5 bored, but creative, office workers + five laptops + Backstreet boys = Aw
2009-10-16 23:53:00 Came to know about this video from a tweet of @avinashkaushik
Study Shows Increased Risk of Cancer for Hanford Workers
2009-09-08 15:11:00 The results of a recent study have shown that former construction workers at the Hanford nuclear site are at increased risk of contracting certain types of cancers, including the asbestos cancer known as mesothelioma, which is linked to higher level and long term asbestos exposure. The study, which was published in this month’s copy of the ...
Why Doesn?t He Just Freeze Federal Workers? Salaries?
2009-09-01 06:23:00 I have lost count of the number of friends and acquaintances who work in the private sector who have told metheir employer has either cut their pay or frozen their salaries to avoid laying off (them and/or) their co-workers. And now, the President, is asking “federal workers to sacrifice” by cutting their pay increase by 0.4 percent: Citing ...
By: GayPatriot
Will Rachel Maddow Call Communications Workers of America Astroturfers?
2009-08-29 07:50:00 Since I’m traveling, I haven’t had time to get to catch MSNBC, so don’t know if Rachel Maddow has followed up on her August 19 show where she developed standard to show how a supposed grassroots rally was anything but. The American Petroleum Institute (API) had sponsored the rally in question against climate control legislation. ...
By: GayPatriot
Fruit4Thought: Fruit Delivery Service For Toronto Office Workers
2009-08-17 05:19:00 The need for convenient healthy snacks, often delivered to homes or offices, has bred a large number of businesses because let's face it, people like things better when they're easy! Well, there's a new one on its radar, and this one hits close to home for me, coming to your from Toronto, Canada.
China's Migrant Workers. The Revolution Will Have To Wait.
2009-08-14 01:03:00 Robert D. O'Brien (have I linked to the right person?) over at China Beat has a great post up on the impact China's manufacturing downturn is having and will have on China's big picture. The post is entitled, "China’s Migrant Workers in the Wake of the Economic Crisis: Unemployed, Undeterred," and it basically concludes that the macro impacts on China will be micro. I tend to agree. What do you think?
By: China Law Blog
Former mine workers union chief Church dies at 72
(AP)
2009-07-14 21:12:00 AP - Sam Church, former leader of the United Mine Workers of America, died early Tuesday after a long illness, the union announced.
Destructive Phone Pranksters Exploit Workers
2009-07-13 21:44:00 Late Night Prank You find yourself staying in a hotel and get a late night call from the front desk. Apparently, they want you to throw your toilet out the window. Protip: Go ahead and get some independent verification before doing that. Recently, a group called PrankNET has been phoning people and businesses in a ...
By: Blawg IT
Montana City Requires Workers' Internet Accounts
2009-06-19 16:20:00 From Slashdot: Bozeman, Montana is now requiring all applicants for city jobs to furnish Internet account information for 'background checking.' A portion of the application reads, "Please list any and all, current personal or business websites, web pages or memberships on any Inte
Japanese Game Company Gives Productive Workers Big Baby Bonuses
2009-06-12 23:43:00 Making babies for fun and profit? We all know about the former but now Japanese game company Koei Tecmo is doling out the dollars for "productive" employees - whether they're good workers or not.
Laid-Off Workers Display Business Cards at CardsofChange.com
2009-05-20 16:30:00 We've all been feeling the crunch of the world's economy slowing down into this current recession, but a few hopefuls out there are trying to make the best of it. CardsofChange is a site that collects the modified business cards of ditched workers all over the world and puts them on display. We'll all get a few laughs out of these images, but maybe some of these bright individuals will find themselves a new gig, too!
British IT Workers to Test Life Without Windows for a Month
2009-05-18 14:48:00 From Newlaunches.com: Blair Thompson and Derek Cook are two Windows Addicts. They are Microsoft application instructors and have 30 years of PC experience. They have used a range of Microsoft products ranging from DOS to Windows 7 RC. So what is so great about that! I bet you will
Las Vegas Hotel Developer Denied $130 Million In Funds & Cuts Workers
2009-05-05 08:54:00 Las Vegas hotel developer funds stopped and reduces construction work force. Commercial real estate developer of the $3.1 billion Fontainebleau hotel alerted contractors of denied access to some of the $130 million in construction financing. The constructions funds were expected to be available according to the developer last week. A separate set of lenders apart from ...
Interested Social workers need
2009-04-25 16:22:00 WE are a non stock, non profit Scientific and Charitable institution duly registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission since 1984 and founded by a group of physicians. Our objective is to undertake researches, training and service in the control and management of tropical infectious diseases. Principal Recipient of the Global Fund to fight against Tuberculosis, Malaria and HIVAIDS. Now we are looking for Social workers who can work with us without expecting salary, don t worry about timing and good and soft people, who like to serve to public. We are not expecting anything from you. Just we are telling you who like to service for other and country can join with us. We are welcome you for our institution. You can spend time with us any time. Theirs is no order or condition for this. If we have any social awareness programme in some where means we will tell you before itself. You can join with us. Don t think am posting this project to order you. I m just telling who...
THE NEW CLASS AND THE WORKERS
2009-04-19 01:13:00 By Gaither Stewart4/17/09(Rome) Protests, broken heads and hundreds of arrests at the G20 in London, bloody demonstrations in Kehl and Baden Baden and Strasbourg at celebrations marking the 60th anniversary of NATO, workers uprisings across the face of France, and on Saturday in Rome?s Circus Maximus a mammoth manifestation organized by the CGIL trade union underline the abyss separating the New Class of capital from labour. The current and spreading revolt of labour against capital seems to mark the second phase of the crisis of capitalism, as a consequence of the financial crisis caused by the New Class of an elite that has illogically chosen to separate itself from labour in the Occidental world.When the Yugoslav Communist Milovan Djilas wrote his book, The New Class, he was referring to a ?political? bureaucracy in Yugoslavia. Today?s global New Class consists of the financial class that has bought and subjugated its second component, the political class, which fronts for it, pr...
Jean Lambert MEP on Workers Right
2009-03-11 19:42:00 Jean Lambert MEP on Workers Rights Jean Lambert, London’s Green MEP, talks to camera about this important issue. Check out the details of her re-election campaign at http://www.london.greenparty.or-g.uk and http://re-electjean.blogspot.co-m
Vivek Wadhwa Promotes Age Discrimination Against U.S. Workers
2009-03-05 00:07:00 Once again, we get the idiotorials and biased research trying to claim immigrants are critical to the U.S. economy. Every single time, U.S. workers are ignored, the underemployment of U.S. citizens is discounted, and most of all, the wholesale, institutionalized age discrimination that fires workers over the age of 35 and replaces them with a steady stream of cheap young labor from other countries is endorsed. In Vivek Wadhwa's constant promotion of workers who are not U.S. citizens, once again the prejudice against Americans shows: the vast majority of these returnees were relatively young. The average age was 30 for Indian returnees, and 33 for Chinese... Wadhwa is referring to the workers leaving the United States and returning to their home countries. Note the focus on the keyword young. The implication is if one is experienced, older, magically their talents are no longer worthwhile. This is age discrimination at it's best and interwoven through the United States tech...
By: NoSlaves.com
It Should Be U.S. Citizens Preferred on H-1B, not temporary guest workers
2009-02-20 19:03:00 Today there are a flurry of stories in the press on American workers being outraged because corporations are firing U.S. workers and keeping their temporary foreign guest workers. Guess what. Corporations have been replacing U.S. citizens, U.S. workers with temporary guest workers for quite some time now. This is not the best and the brightest or worker shortage or skills we cannot find, it is outright labor arbitrage. Corporations fire U.S. workers and replace them with guest workers because it's cheaper and also for their offshore outsourcing agendas. The scenario goes like this. A U.S. worker who is highly skilled, exceptional job performance hits say age 35. Magically a younger worker on a guest Visa needs to be trained by that experienced worker. Then, magically that U.S. worker is fired. Bloomberg and Reuters while acknowledging these corporations are keeping H-1B and L-1 foreign guest workers and firing Americans, go on and on about the plight of being unemployed for a...
By: NoSlaves.com
TESDA offers free training for laid-off workers
2009-02-03 02:26:00 With the series of lay-offs by crisis-stricken companies seen to last for some time, the government is urging people to upgrade their skills for the workplace through training. According to Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) Director-General Augusto Syjuco, the export, electronics and manufacturing industries will continue to suffer from the steep decline in product ...
TESDA offers free training for laid-off workers
2009-02-03 02:26:00 With the series of lay-offs by crisis-stricken companies seen to last for some time, the government is urging people to upgrade their skills for the workplace through training. According to Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) Director-General Augusto Syjuco, the export, electronics and manufacturing industries will continue to suffer from the steep decline in product ...
Recto sees 500,000 new jobs this year - But says 800,000 workers are ?vulne
2009-02-03 02:07:00 Recto sees 500,000 new jobs this year - But says 800,000 workers are ?vulnerable? to crisis By GENALYN KABILING & RAYMUND F. ANTONIO - Manila Bulletin The government could only create 500,000 new job opportunities this year, not enough to meet the demand for domestic employment amid a sluggish world economy, an economic manager of President Arroyo ...
Unions Gain Heavy Among Government Workers
2009-02-01 14:23:00 -By Warner Todd Huston As we reported a few days ago, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported its newest stats on union membership for 2008. These stats show that union membership has increased for the second straight year. But where it has increased is of key importance. The report shows a gain of 428,000 members, the largest ...
By: Publius Forum
Armenian Journalist Hopes Obama Administration Will Protect Foreign Workers
2009-01-22 20:42:00 FreeMediaOnline.org & Free Media Online Blog, January 22, 2009, San Francisco — Anna Karapetian, a journalist from Armenia who in radio broadcasts funded by the U.S. government reported on human rights abuses in her country, is one of many people around the world who see Barack Obama’s inauguration as a hopeful beginning of a new era ...
I bet Jesus would have given his workers a raise, and then scored a bunch o
2009-01-20 15:08:00 This morning, on the ride into work, a drive I was making earlier than usual because I had to drop The Boy off at school (since Bluey's not fixed up yet). The news came on, and after hearing a brief report, I was more angry than I've been in... well, fine, I'm angry a lot. But usually I'm angry because The Boy thinks a "clean" room is one in which the giant bag of bread is tied closed, or because someone was driving on the road at the same time as me.This was different. This time I was angry at faceless people out there who were being stupid. The news story, which can be heard on an NPR link at this site, said that companies are hiring chaplains to help workers cope with the stress of the recession.Had there been a boss or company or someone doing such a stupid thing near me, I might well have thrown the remaining half of my Pop Tart at him. (It was blueberry, for the record. Throwing a half a blueberry Pop Tart at someone should be considered a horrendous insult.) Hiring...
ADAO Honors Asbestos Workers with Awards
2009-01-19 15:32:00 A number of people that have been involved in working in asbestos awareness related activities have been honoured by the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organisation, which has stated that it wants to thank the individual for all of their hard work and commitment through presenting them with the awards. Among those that are being honoured by the ...
Criminals and Pervs Among California Health Care Workers
2009-01-17 23:21:00 Kiyoshi Fukuda, a dentist from Santa Rosa, California, is a registered sex offender. He admitted to having sex with a child under 16 and even though he disclosed his status to the state licensing board his record remained "clean" on the bureau's website. Even Fukuda was surprised by that one. Over a third of California's 937,100 licensed healthcare workers have not been fingerprinted - a crucial step in vetting workers by checking criminal databases and intended to prevent rapists, drug addicts and others with rap sheets from becoming licensed to provide health care services. Incredibly, over three-quarters of psychiatric technicians; nearly half of family therapists, social workers and dentists; and 12 percent of physicians were not fingerprinted by their relevant licensing boards. Among them was Michael Marcus, a dentist from San Jose who was arrested in July 2005 after allegedly fondling a 17-year-old patient. He was charged with three misdemeanor charges of sexual batte...
New DOL Secretary Solis Giving a Sign of Hope For U.S. Professional Workers
2009-01-17 02:48:00 Considering how badly corporate lobbyists have sew up the Democratic party when it comes to global labor arbitrage against working professionals, well pardon me for my skepticism. Still during the confirmation hearing of Labor Secretary Solis, this question was asked: In terms of H-1B Visas, what is your position on that? The below video clip in her answer. [flash http://blog.noslaves.com/conten-t/SolishearingH1b.flv] Folks, keep writing, speaking out and demanding your legislators pass S.1035 intact.
By: NoSlaves.com
The Untold Story of American Workers Vs. Illegal Immigration
2009-01-13 04:20:00 Here’s an ALIPAC article from William Green that discusses what I firmly believe you are going to be hearing about quite a bit in 2009. Americans are out-of-work and soon they will be in stark contention with illegal aliens for jobs. Where will this lead when American families can’t put food on the ...
Workers Deserve Better Than a Big Labor Lackey
2009-01-10 01:37:00 The Heritage Foundation Today may well turn out to be a major turning point in the history of the labor movement, and not because Rep. Hilda Solis (D-CA) will face questions at her Secretary of Labor confirmation hearings in the Senate. No, the bigger story is the voice vote conference call Service Employees International Union president ...
By: Publius Forum
Thousands of Dockyard Workers Could Win Compensation
2009-01-07 13:40:00 Recent reports have indicated that thousands of dockyard workers or their families could find that they are eligible for compensation after a landmark ruling in the UK that saw two claimants receive compensation in relation to asbestos exposure. Judges overseeing the case ruled earlier this week that a government group had been negligent in failing to ...
A bridge loan to nowhere; the United Auto Workers, the President, and the l
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Exploitation & abuse of Indonesian women domestic workers
2008-12-10 02:01:00 We all know that poverty are the basic problem that leads to bigger problems, a social problem. Poor people are trying hard to survive by doing anything they can think of. As Indonesia has been one of "third countries" that facing these problems, many Indonesian women had also face to reality to work as domestic workers for more family income. But not all of them are lucky enough to get descent job. Indonesian women domestic workers, either who work as a migrant or local employment are often become the victim of human rights abuses. Although, Indonesian government have set legal remedies to protect them, but the violence has been happening still and the effect is remotely limited. In many cases, several of them are reported dead by serious violence, received beatings, tortured everyday in several years and because they choose to die or try to run by jumping from the top of building. They are forced to work beyond the limit only for $100 salary per month, and sometimes without pay fo...
By: Graphic Identity
Workers occupy factory in Chicago
2008-12-08 20:16:00 (From: PWW) PWW photo by John Bachtell. CHICAGO ? Workers at Republic Windows and Doors in the Goose Island neighborhood began occupying the plant Friday morning Dec. 5 to regain ...
By: News for Greens
Workers at London Department Store Exposed to Asbestos
2008-12-04 02:38:00 It has been revealed that two workers that were working at the London department store Selfridges were exposed to deadly asbestos in May of last year. The workers had been hired by a sub-contractor to work on the refitting of the staff changing rooms. Exposure to airborne asbestos dust and fibers can result in a ...
Obama & McCain on Professional Workers - Bottom Line American Workers, YOU?
2008-11-02 02:06:00 There have been many misinformation posts on Barack Obama and John McCain on H-1B and F-4 Visas. Bottom line American workers, you are royally screwed by both candidates. John McCain wants to increase H-1B Visas. So does Barack Obama. Think either of them are putting U.S. workers first? Think again! Neither of them will even co-sponsor S.1035, the reforms for H-1B. L-1. Never even crosses their lips! Both McCain and Obama issue corporate lobbyist talking points that have no basis in economic reality, completely ignoring the brain drain for the United States. When U.S. workers. U.S. professionals become underemployed, labor arbitraged with all of that skill and talent sitting idle, America further inches towards third world status by refusing to invest in it's people and build up expertise from it's own citizenry. Even worse, the F-4 Visa, is a dangerous agenda for it tries to turn our entire educational system into a glorified green card machine. Imagine what will hap...
By: NoSlaves.com
McCain Call Centers Workers Walk Off Instead of Reading Inflamatory Script
2008-10-28 02:01:00 Some three dozen workers at a telemarketing call center in Indiana walked off the job rather than read an incendiary McCain campaign script attacking Barack Obama, according to two workers at the center and one of their parents. Nina Williams, a stay-at-home mom in Lake County, Indiana, tells us that her daughter recently called her from ...
By: What's Going On
Tesla delays its next model, replaces its CEO, lays off workers
2008-10-21 23:53:00 Citing "extraordinary times," Tesla Motors, maker of the battery-powered, $109,000 Roadster, said Wednesday that difficult market conditions were forcing it to delay production of its next-generation vehicle, close two offices, lay off an unspecified number of employees and replace its chief exe
McCain Cons Workers
2008-10-20 14:35:00 McCain Cons Workers [There is nothing new, I guess about Republicans doing their best to con American workers. As the Krugman column below indicates, it has been going on since Nixon. This really gets to me personally, as I was a blue collar worker summers during my college days and really cared ...
Chinese workers protest at closed toy factory
2008-10-17 20:11:00 From International Herald TribuneDONGGUAN, China: Hundreds of workers protested Friday for a third straight day outside a large toy factory that closed in southern China amid a global slowdown that has begun hurting Chinese manufacturers.About 500 workers were milling around outside the factory in the city of Dongguan as police looked on. The laborers are demanding unpaid wages from the factory's Hong Kong owner, Smart Union Group (Holdings) Ltd., which had three factories in Dongguan in Guangdong province.The factory closed Wednesday, the same day the company issued a notice to Hong Kong's stock market saying it was suspending trading of its shares pending the release of an announcement. Calls made to the company's Hong Kong main office were not answered.The Southern Metropolis Daily, one of the most popular mass-market dailies in Guangdong, reported on its Web site Thursday that workers were shocked that the factory had closed. Unidentified laborers were quoted as saying the pl...
Number of home workers set to increase - PeoplePerHour.com
2008-10-11 03:14:00 Number of home workers set to increasePeoplePerHour.com, -;UK -13 hours agoNew legislation in the UK should increase the number of employees who work from home. The change in the law will allow people with children under 16 to … More: continued here If you like this blog/post, you can support it with a $3.00 contribution.
Here?s How They Work to Pressure Workers?
2008-09-22 11:13:00 Our friends from the Center for Union Facts sent along an instructive video on the underhanded tactics unions use against ordinary Americans every day… Tags: Publius Forum, Warner Todd Huston, Union Corruption, UnionsBookmark this story to your favorite service:
By: Publius Forum
Plant workers: Fairness at stake in prayer dispute
2008-09-19 17:55:00 Plant workers: Fairness at stake in prayer dispute GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) - Melissa Infante sat in her car smoking a cigarette, knowing she was supposed to be packaging meat at the JBS Swift & Co. plant where she’s worked for nearly two years. But she’d walked off the job Thursday morning to protest a schedule change she believes unfairly catered to Muslim workers at the plant, shrugging off warnings from supervisors that she could be fired. “To me, it’s just not fair,” Infante said. On Monday, hundreds of Muslim employees were the first to walk off the job, saying they weren’t being allowed to take a break to pray during the holy month of Ramadan. Break times were then altered on the second shift so the Muslim employees, mostly Somali, could make their fourth of five daily prayers at sunset. Then hundreds of non-Muslim workers walked off the job in counterprotests Wednesday and Thursday morning. Later Thursday, plant managers did an about-f...
By: TexasFred's
Blog Watch: Co-Workers: Obama Inflated His Resume
2008-09-15 16:02:00 This is from Sweetness & Light *** It has been noted by Charles Krauthammer and others that very few people have stepped forward to vouch for Barack Obama. Indeed, there would seem to be an especially conspicuous absence of witnesses to the years after graduated from Columbia and before he moved to Chicago to work as a ...
Chrysler offers buyouts to 13,000 hourly workers
2008-09-14 02:55:00 From the article: “Chrysler LLC will offer buyouts to more than 13,000 hourly workers in Michigan, in the latest wave of job-reductions sweeping the hard-hit auto industry. Chrysler did not disclose a specific reduction target on Friday, but company officials said they wanted to eliminate at least 2,000 jobs, representing the number of idled workers collecting wages in the Chrysler jobs bank. All automakers are struggling in the U.S. market, which has sunk to its lowest level in more than a decade. But Chrysler has contracted more than any of its major rivals. Its sales through August have fallen 24 percent, or more than double the overall market’s decline.” Chrysler offers new round of buyouts - detnews.com
Portland: Union Workers Physically Attack Worker Free Choice Rally
2008-08-25 22:03:00 -By Warner Todd Huston With more on the card check battle, we have a rally against Unions set up in Portland, Maine where members of the SEIU and the AFL-CIO confronted the pro-choice advocates in a typically uncivil, even threatening, union manner. One union thug even turned over a display table, trying to prevent the pro-choice ...
By: Publius Forum
Workers
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Big Surprise: Anti-Union Wal-Mart Is Pressuring Workers To Vote For John Mc
2008-08-01 17:18:00 Nation’s Largest Employer Plantation Pressures Employees To Vote Against Barack Obama Courtesy of The Wall Street Journal’s Ann Zimmerman and Kris Maher, we learn “The Smiley... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the latest rantings of a gun toting liberal with a chip on his shoulder... harsh views, comments expressed. |
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