After a recession, an improving economy is supposed to bring people back into the job market. Instead, the number of Americans in the labor force � those who have a job or are looking for one � fell by nearly half a million people from February to March, the government said Friday.
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In the latest blow to the Obama administration’s claim to be the “openness administration,” word emerged today that the Department of Labor sought to charge a news organization more than million for information.
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Last week workers walked out in protest at Amazon’s two largest distribution centers in Germany. The online retail giant is one of several US companies to butt heads with employees in the country over corporate practices that chafe against German labor laws.
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The number of Americans who count as “not in the labor force” totaled 89,304,000, a record high, and up 0.3 percent from 89,008,000 in January, according to the Labor Department, CNSNews.com reports
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Apple Inc. used child labor in the making of its products by employing 106 underage workers across 11 facilitates in 2012, an internal audit revealed. According to a report, the company also discovered wage problems and forced pregnancy tests.
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Chinese taxpayers are paying hundreds of millions of yuan so Communist Party officials can lock up and enslave other Chinese; Party security officials often force labor camp detainees to make products for export, then benefit from the profits of selling those products.
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US breeds a Chinese-style inmate labor scheme on its own soil. Both state and some of the biggest private companies are now enjoying the fruits of a cheap and readily available work force, with tens of millions of dollars spent by private prisons to keep their jails full.
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Wal-Mart filed an unfair labor practice charge against the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, or UFCW, asking the National Labor Relations Board to halt what the retailer says are unlawful attempts to disrupt its business.
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Foxconn Electronics — the China-based contract electronics manufacturer also known as Hon Hai — is planning to build manufacturing plants in the U.S., DigiTimes reports, in a story attributed to “market watchers.”
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Department of Labor Secretary Hilda Solis told the “Washington Watch with Roland Martin” program that, “even though the unemployment ticked up a bit, it only shows you that there’s confidence.”
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