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UVA students on hunger strike to protest employee pay
Twelve University of Virginia students say they've embarked on a hunger strike to draw attention to their efforts to get school officials to improve employee compensation, including raising the minimum wage to $13 an hour.
The students said at a...Tags: Students, University of Virginia, Career and Workplace, Education, Teaching and Learning
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Health benefits will be terminated for forty-five thousand Verizon employees
Multimedia JournalistAfter learning health insurance benefits will come to an end, the worker's union filed an unfair labor practice charge against Verizon. Health benefits will be canceled August 31st, but unionized workers have the option to continue coverage through...Tags: Unions, Verizon Communications, Work Relations, Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace
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Verizon workers going back to work
NEW YORK (AP) -- Ten of thousands of Verizon workers will return
to work Tuesday after a strike that lasted about two weeks.
The Communication Workers of America and the International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers issued a statement saying they...Tags: Verizon Communications, Massachusetts, Career and Workplace, Employees
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UPDATED: Verizon employees go on strike
Multimedia JournalistUPDATED 12:05 a.m.: Verizon employees have voted to go on strike. Check back later for more updates. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Communication Workers of America are trying...Tags: Contracts, Unions, Consumers, Verizon Communications, Elections
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Forty-five thousand Verizon employees are on strike
Multimedia JournalistVerizon employees nationwide are officially on strike and they plan to keep it that way until a contract agreement is reached. Negotiations on a new contract did not go the way Verizon workers had hoped. Union employees have been on strike since their...Tags: North Carolina, Contracts, Unions, Consumers, Verizon Communications
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Update: Verizon workers who are on strike try to up the ante in Roanoke
Multimedia JournalistUPDATE 8/9 Verizon employees who are on strike decided to up the ante Tuesday afternoon. Several workers tried to picket in front of the Verizon Wireless Store near Valley View Mall in Roanoke before they got shoe'd off. The police were called in and...Tags: Verizon Wireless, Unions, Contracts, Verizon Communications, Lynchburg (Lynchburg, Virginia)
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A high-tech request, with a slow-speed response
reporterAndrew Beers is a patient man, but even patient people have their limits. "We've had at least nine different install dates that have gone by," remembers Beers. He contacted Verizon to install a landline and high speed internet. The phone line eventually...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Lifestyle and Leisure, Verizon Communications, Career and Workplace, Alcoholic Beverages
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Volvo union employees ratify five-year contract
Volvo and its local union employees have officially come to a deal.
The United Auto Workers Local 2069 ratified a new five-year contract today.
The agreement covers about 1,300 UAW members at the New River Valley plant.
Workers went on strike at...Tags: Health and Safety at Work, Manufacturing and Engineering, Contracts, Plant Openings, Companies and Corporations
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Stop force-feeding Guantanamo prisoners -U.S. senator
ReutersBy Jane Sutton GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba, June 19 (Reuters) - U .S. Senator Dianne Feinstein urged the Pentagon on Wednesday to stop force-feeding hunger-striking prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and called the practice "out of...Tags: Justice and Rights, Barack Obama, Civil Rights, Health Organizations, American Medical Association
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Stop force-feeding Guantanamo prisoners: Senator
ReutersGUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein urged the Pentagon on Wednesday to stop force-feeding hunger-striking prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and called the practice "out of step" with medical ethics...Tags: Chuck Hagel, Justice and Rights, Barack Obama, Civil Rights, White House
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Park Ridge labor contract in dispute
A month after Park Ridge aldermen reaffirmed a new contract with an employees' union, members are claiming its provisions are not being adhered to by the city. Local 150 of the International Union of Operating Engineers said paychecks were hit with...Tags: Health and Safety at Work, Unions, Health Insurance Cost, Collective Contract, Work Relations
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Turkish government, protesters seek to draw sting from unrest
ReutersISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's deputy prime minister said on Wednesday he had no objection to silent anti-government protests inspired by a symbolic "Standing Man" vigil, comments that could help draw the sting out of three weeks of often violent...Tags: Riots, Justice and Rights, Angela Merkel, Civil Rights, Freedom of the Press
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