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lia href= http://www.laborradio.org/node/10079Wal-Mart Will Pay Workers $54.2 Million In Suit Settlementa//li
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pOffice Depot is making plans to cut jobs and close stores while a mining giant also sharpens the mass layoff axe. Jesse Russell reports:/p
pOffice Depot is the world’s second largest office supplier and announced on Wednesday that it would be slashing up to 2,200 jobs and put up the shutters on 112 stores. An additional 14 stores will be closed after the company allows leases to run out. The store closings will reduce the companies profile from 1,275 stores to 1,163. Also announcing mass layoffs on Wednesday was the world’s third largest mining company. Rio Tinto Group plans to cut 14,000 jobs from its worldwide workforce./p
pWal-Mart plans to pay out $54.25 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by workers alleging the world’s largest retailer had them work off the clock and cut break time. Under the deal agreed to by the law firm representing the 100,000 current and former workers in Minnesota and the company would require Wal-Mart stores to maintain an electronic hourly wage monitoring system. The deal covers workers at both Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club stores in Minnesota who were employed by the company from Sept. 11, 1998 until November 14, 2008. The settlement will likely be approved during a hearing on January 14./p
pBy Doug Cunningham/p
pSit-down solidarity continues as UE workers in Chicago hold their factory while negotiating with Bank of America and Republic Windows amp; Doors. At a rally at Bank of America Jorge Mujica of the March 10th Committee urged workers everywhere to follow the heroic example set by the UE sitdowners./p
p[Mujica]: “If you are told you’re going to be laid off, your factory’s going to close down, take it over! Do a sit-in, exactly the same thing that Republic is doing./p
pThe Chicago sit-downers are resolute as they maintain ther occupation of the factory. They are owed money from their employer and the workers are insisting Bank of America free up credit so Republic can pay them./p
pBy Doug Cunningham/p
pThe UAW says it strongly supports a bipartisan compromise plan for emergency bridge loans to U.S. auto industry. The union is urging Congress to act right away to approve the plan. UAW President Ron Gettelfinger says if Congress fail to act this week one or more of the three U.S. automakers will be forced to liquidate operations./p
Lauren Asplen, IUE-CWA Assistant to the President
Lauren Asplen, assistant to the president for IUE-CWA, is among union delegates taking part in the 12-day United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNCCC) in Poznan, Poland. The meeting is building upon the framework negotiated last year in Bali, Indonesia. Of the nearly 100 union delegates, Asplen is among the more than [...]
The economy is in a free fall and failure to help the nation’s automakers could be devastating, economists say. Nearly 2 million jobs have been lost this year—more than half a million last month alone—and there is a possibility that another 3.3 million jobs could be gone if Congress does not pass an emergency bridge [...]
Anti-union activist Bill Sizemore, a three-time loser on Oregon ballot measures to silence working family voters, was jailed Dec. 1 for contempt of court in a case related to his failed 2000 paycheck deception ballot measure.
Don McIntosh, associate editor of the Northwest Labor Press reports:
It was his fourth contempt of court charge relating to an [...]
Roxanne Brown, USW assistant legislative director
Roxanne D. Brown, assistant legislative director of the United Steelworkers (USW), is among union delegates taking part in the 12-day United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNCCC) in Poznan, Poland. The meeting is building upon the framework negotiated last year in Bali, Indonesia. Of the nearly 100 union delegates, Brown is [...]
With Congress poised to consider a $15 billion bipartisan emergency bridge loan for the Big Three automakers, the UAW is strongly urging lawmakers to pass the legislation quickly to save as many as 3.3 million jobs across the economy.
While the U.S. House may act as early as today, a small minority of Republican senators are [...]
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