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Jerry Brown urges UC to stress graduating students in 4 years
SACRAMENTO — The graduation rates of UC students came under more scrutiny Wednesday as Gov. Jerry Brown urged administrators and faculty to prod more undergraduates to earn a degree in four years, not six. Brown recently proposed giving UC and Cal...
Tags: Interior Policy, Politics, Students, Personal Income, AFSCME
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Greek government orders teachers not to strike
ATHENS -- Greece’s ruling coalition threatened Monday to arrest public high school teachers if they walk off work later this week, a strike that would potentially disrupt university-entrance exams for thousands of students. But the government's...
Tags: Teachers, Layoffs and Downsizing, Teaching and Learning, National Government, Government
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Union for UC patient-care workers authorizes strike for May 21, 22
The union representing nearly 13,000 University of California patient-care workers announced plans Friday to strike later this month, but UC officials said they would seek a restraining order to prevent any such action. The American Federation of State,...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Interior Policy, AFSCME, Employees, Pension and Welfare
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1-day fast food worker strike comes to Detroit
DETROIT (AP) — Workers at a fast food restaurant on Detroit's east side have walked off the job as part of an effort to push for higher wages. Detroit pastor Charles Williams II says workers want $15 and hour, better working conditions and the...Tags: McDonald's, Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation
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The cost of Guantanamo
The hunger strike by inmates protesting conditions at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba is forcing the Obama administration to revisit its policy of indefinite detention without trial for terrorist suspects. It's about time. As Mr. Obama noted...Tags: Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Terrorism, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics, Al-Qaeda
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INSIGHT-Nigeria's "war on terror" wins tentative support
Reuters* President has launched biggest offensive yet on Islamists * Cautious optimism over Jonathan's change of tactics * Islamist fighters know how to regroup, counter-strike * Development, jobs hold key to long-term peace By Joe Brock MAIDUGURI, Nigeria,...Tags: Civil Rights, Armed Conflicts, Crime, Law and Justice, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics
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Obama reveals conflicted thinking on drone strikes
WASHINGTON — At times defensive, solemn, lawyerly and personal, President Obama on Thursday offered a rare glimpse of the burden that the nation's fight against terrorism has placed on the man who leads it. In a speech spanning nearly an hour, the...
Tags: Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Barack Obama, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Islam, Defense
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CORRECTED-Nigeria's "war on terror" wins tentative support
Reuters(Corrects May 26 story to fix security spending figure in paragraph 36. The figure of 700 billion naira spent on security in the four months to April was wrong and misattributed to the central bank. The security budget is 950 billion for the full year...Tags: Civil Rights, Armed Conflicts, Crime, Law and Justice, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics
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Most unionized UC hospital workers go to jobs despite strike
As University of California patient care workers returned to the picket lines Wednesday, hospital administrators said they were gratified that so many others chose to come to work. More than three-quarters of union members who had been scheduled to work...
Tags: AFSCME, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Unions, Hospitals and Clinics, Career and Workplace
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Federal appeals court strikes down union notification requirement
WASHINGTON — Employers cannot be required to post a notice that tells their workers they have a right to join a union and bargain for better wages, a federal appeals court ruled in the latest setback for the National Labor Relations Board. The so-...
Tags: Employment, Civil Rights, Laws, Barack Obama, Parties and Movements
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Cambodian police clash with thousands of garment workers, 23 hurt
ReutersPHNOM PENH, May 27 (Reuters) - At least 23 workers were hurt in Cambodia on Monday when police using stun batons moved in to end a protest over pay at a factory that makes clothing for U.S. sportswear company Nike , a worker and a trade union...Tags: Phnom Penh (Cambodia), Plant Openings, Economy, Business and Finance, Cambodia, Nike, Inc.
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