Archive for the ‘Labour issues’ Category
Monday, May 23rd, 2005
Once again there's bad news on the jobs front from Galway with Crown Engineering announcing that their plant - just a few hundred yards from where I grew up - will close next year with the loss of 150 jobs. I'm not sure if or why we are meant to ...
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Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005
Indymedia Radio has a number of audio pieces about May Day in Ireland, including a soundscape of the Reclaim the Streets and a piece by Joe Higgins.
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Sunday, May 1st, 2005
I'm currently on air doing the Celtic Music show on WEFT. I've listed the playlist below the break and will update as I go.
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Sunday, May 1st, 2005
Today, of course, is May Day. It's a busy day for me this year, having produced the two hour pledge drive special of Media Matters earlier and with another two hours on Celtic Music Go Braugh Go Braugh on WEFT FM later (where I'll be concentrating on songs of labour ...
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Wednesday, March 9th, 2005
Just before Pete Tridish's talk to the participatory media reading group yesterday I got word over Prometheus's Stubblefield list that:In a precedent-setting move,
fast-food industry leader Taco Bell Corp., a division of Yum! Brands
(NYSE: YUM), has agreed to work with the Florida-based farm worker
organization, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), to ...
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Friday, March 4th, 2005
You can't say the Bushies don't have long memories
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2005
What a disturbing ruling. According the the US ninth circuit it's reasonable for employers to require that women wear make-up. Note that it's not that employees wear make-up, or that employees be neatly groomed. Rather make-up is seemingly an area in which sex-based discrimination is legally protected. Seemingly "a rule ...
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2005
Proving once again that private corporate censorship can be as problematic as state action, GoDaddy closed down a websiterun by striking newspaper workers until they removed a list of scabs from it. I'd heard about the Vindicator strike before - it's been hard fought with newspapers from around the ...
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Friday, February 11th, 2005
Many of you will have heard about Walmart closing their Canadian plant, just as workers were about to succeed in getting a contract (they announced their decision when workers looked for arbitration in the negotiation process). The AFL-CIO is gathering a petition to 'hold Walmart accountable' - go sign up! ...
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Friday, February 11th, 2005
The GEO (my union) is campaigning on visa-immigration reform, specifically the ability of students to travel in and out of the country. As they say:visa restrictions and lengthy security checks have created an increasingly difficult situation for international students, post-doctoral scholars, and other academics studying and working in the United ...
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