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Dave Jamieson

Workers From Hershey Scandal Win Big Backpay

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 11.14.2012 | Business
Read More: Candy, Strike, Hershey-Pa, Hershey, Workers, Labor Department, Retail, Workplace Safety, Labor Unions, Labor, Retail Sales, Workplace, Chocolate, Work Stoppages, Business News, Hershey's, Business News

Foreign students who claimed they toiled under abusive conditions at a Pennsylvania plant handling Hershey candies last year have won over $200,000 in...

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Dave Jamieson

Workers Strike At Walmart Warehouse

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 11.19.2012 | Business
Read More: Walmart, Strike, Temporary Workers, Warehouses, Retail, Labor Unions, Black Friday 2012, Warehouse-Workers, Video, Labor, Black Friday Shopping, Retail Sales, Temp Work, Work, Black Friday, Work Stoppages, Manual Labor, Mira-Loma, Business News

Workers at a Walmart-contracted warehouse in Southern California went on strike Wednesday to demand better conditions at their facility, according to ...

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Dave Jamieson

NFL Refs Return While Other Lockouts Grind On

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 09.29.2012 | Business
Read More: Iowa, Referee Lockout, United Food and Commercial Workers, Nfl Referee Lockout, Lockout, Corn, Labor Relations, Ufcw, American Grain Production, Grains, Labor Unions, Grain Products Corp Lockout, Nfl Replacement Refs, Labor, Video, NFL Lockout, Work Stoppages, NFL Referees, Business News

Each week in Muscatine, Iowa, Tony Newton and his friends watch the trucks haul grain out of the local corn-processing plant, trying to gauge producti...

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Dave Jamieson

Another Strike Hits Chicagoland

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 09.17.2012 | Business
Read More: Walmart, Strike, Warehouse, Workplace Safety, Labor Unions, Warehouse-Workers, Temp-Workers, Labor, Warehouse Workers Strike, Wage Theft, Walmart Warehouses, Temp Work, Illinois-Temp-Workers, Work Stoppages, Unions, Business News

A strike among warehouse workers in Southern California has spread to northeastern Illinois, where a group of workers at a distribution center for Wal...

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Dave Jamieson

Warehouse Workers Strike In California

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 09.13.2012 | Business
Read More: Mira Loma, Walmart, Strike, Labor, Video, Work, Work Stoppages, Warehouse, Logistics, Inland Empire, Unions, Warehouse-Workers, Business News

A group of warehouse workers in Southern California has gone on strike, vowing not to return to work until their employer addresses what they describe...

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Wave Of Protests Hits Greek Hospitals

AP | Posted 05.21.2012 | Business
Read More: Pasok, Strike, Eurozone, Video, Bailout, Work Stoppages, Evangelos Venizelos, International Monetary Fund, Hospital Services, Greece Debt Crisis, Rescue Loans, Prime Minister Lucas Papademos, Austerity Measures, Business News

ATHENS, Greece — Greece is already managing to beat some of its deficit-reduction targets, as figures released Wednesday show that its central b...

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Bonnie Kavoussi

U.S. Worker Strikes Recover To Pre-Recession Levels, But Remain Modest

HuffingtonPost.com | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 02.08.2012 | Business
Read More: Job Market, Video, Labor, Labor Market, Strikes, Workers, Unemployment, Work Stoppages, Worker Strikes 2011, Jobs, Work Stoppage, Worker Strike, Worker Strikes, Labor Unions, Business News

As the job market improves, some workers are regaining the courage to go on strike. After dipping to record lows following the financial crisis, th...

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