China’s Slowest Import Growth in Two Years Deepens Global Risks: Economy Bloomberg ...Imports ... rose 11.8 percent from a year before, less than all 21 estimates in a Bloomberg News survey of economists, a government report showed today in Beijing...
Afghanistan: 'Slave-like' conditions at Swedish army base revealed Morning Star ...Kitchen staff at Sweden's military base in Afghanistan have been working in "slave-like conditions," a Swedish newspaper has revealed...
There Are 5,000 Janitors in the U.S. with PhDs Gizmodo ...some 17 million college-educated Americans have jobs that don't require their level of education...
Indiana House Dems end chamber boycott, GOP plans initial vote on divisive labor bill Associated Press ...Republican House Speaker Brian Bosma said the right-to-work bill will get a committee vote Tuesday morning and could make it out of his chamber by the end of the week if Democrats continue to attend House sessions...
Group to push ‘Right to work’ ballot initiative PoliticM ...While many state legislators shy from the issue, an outside group plans to file an initiative petition this month to place a so-called “right to work” constitutional amendment on the 2012 ballot (in Missouri)...
Conservative Maine News Site Fires White Nationalist Writer Hatewatch ...one of the center’s newly hired writers, Leif Parsell, has a long history of espousing white superiority and may even have ties to neo-Nazi organizations...
Area Teamsters join national pipeline strike Citizens Voice ...A national strike of Teamsters pipeline construction workers has spread to Wyoming and Bradford counties, where about 25 workers walked off the job on Friday over a breakdown in retirement negotiations with an association that administers pipeline labor contracts...
