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Custodial Worker's Resource - A worker's resource for custodial, janitorial, maintenance workers and other service professionals. Included are a message board, information on safety, floor care, maintenance and unions.
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The AFL-CIO Working for America Institute - Works to create good jobs and strong communities through partnerships promoting high road economic strategies for individuals and employers. Articles, conferences and other resources.
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The Work Ethic Site - Provides a central resource for materials related to work ethic, affective work competencies, and employability skills for work force development. It is designed to serve both educators and human resource professionals. At University of Georgia.
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The Work Foundation - Offers research, consultancy and advocacy to make workplaces more effective, successful and fulfilling.
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United States Department of Labor - Charged with preparing the American workforce for new and better jobs, and ensuring the adequacy of America's workplaces. It is responsible for the administration and enforcement of over 180 federal statutes.
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Where We Work - Companion site to the CBC Radio program exploring the world of work. Includes essays, audio, and online forums on a variety of topics.
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Work Website - Quotations, stories, disccussions, articles, and humour about work.
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Working Stiff - Archive materials from ezine to help working people put in fewer hours for more pay and occasionally win arguments with the boss. Features diaries, stories, columns, forums, and other resources.
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WorkRights - Access to the latest information on the labour codes to your province, and to compare practices in your region with those of other provinces and territories in Canada.
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From rubble to rebuilding: A year in Joplin, Mo.

This three-photo combo shows a scene taken on May 23, 2011, top, July 20, 2011, center, and May 7, 2012, bottom, shows progress made in Joplin, Mo. in the year after an EF-5 tornado destroyed a large swath of the city and killed 161 people. In the top photo, Laura Vanzant looks for her dog at her home that was destroyed by the tornado and is today cleared of debris. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

The tornado that hit Joplin, Mo., a year ago took 161 lives, injured hundreds more and destroyed thousands of homes and buildings. It also fractured the landscape of the city and opened the door to a massive rebuilding and recovery operation.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T11:59:43Z
Spain teachers, students strike over spending cuts

Two nuns walks past a discount store offering up to 70 per cent reductions on prices in Madrid Monday May 21, 2012. Spain's economy minister de Guindos said the Spanish economy, which has contracted by 0.3 percent in each of the past two quarters, will shrink by about the same amount in the second quarter of 2012. The forecast is for it to decline 1.7 percent for the year. Unemployment stands at a staggering 24.4 percent, and exceeds 50 percent for people under age 25.(AP Photo/Paul White)

Teachers and students from every level of Spain's education system went on strike Tuesday to protest wide-ranging government spending cuts, erecting makeshift tombs at university campuses to symbolize what they claim will be the death of the country's schooling system.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T12:04:27Z
Best Buy profit falls, adj. earns tops Street view
Best Buy Co.'s fiscal first-quarter profit dropped 26 percent on restructuring charges as the struggling electronics retailer began implementing its turnaround plan. Its adjusted earnings and revenue both topped Wall Street's expectations.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T12:03:09Z
Trapped Zimbabwe miners accounted for, no injuries

A conveyor belt carries ore extracted at Mimosa Platinum mine

HARARE (Reuters) - All of around 60 miners trapped underground after an accident and fire at Zimbabwe's Mimosa platinum mine are accounted for and are being bring brought to the surface, the company said on Tuesday. "A number of employees who were accommodated in refuge bays due to low visibility are now in the process of being moved to the surface," Mimosa, a joint venture between South Africa's Impala Platinum (Implats) and London-listed Aquarius Platinum Ltd, said in a statement. "The fire has been contained. ...
Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T11:57:29Z
Commando raid followed Honduran drug shooting

Honduran Navy officers patrol in Patuca river, near Ahuas, a remote community in La Mosquitia region, Honduras, Monday, May 21, 2012. On Friday May 11, a joint Honduran-U.S. drug raid, on a helicopter mission with advisers from the DEA, appears to have mistakenly targeted civilians in the remote jungle area, killing four riverboat passengers and injuring four others. Later, according to villagers, Honduran police narcotics forces and men speaking English spent hours searching the small town of Ahuas for a suspected drug trafficker.(AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

The gunfire from a U.S.-backed Honduran anti-drug mission that appears to have targeted civilians by mistake wasn't the only terror that night more than a week ago, villagers say. They describe heavily armed commandos storming into homes and manhandling residents, and they think American agents joined in.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T12:07:37Z
US futures climb despite worrisome news from Asia

In a photo made May 7, 2012, trader John Vaccarine, right, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York. Wall Street was headed for a slightly lower open on Tuesday May 22, 2012, with Dow Jones industrial futures marginally down. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

U.S. stock futures are rising ahead of a report expected to signal further gains in housing, but a downgrade of Japan's credit rating sent an early shudder through the market.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T12:16:06Z
W. African group probes attack on Mali president

Protesters take to the streets in Bamako, Mali, Monday May 21, 2012. They were protesting Dioncounda Traore's nomination to transitional president for the next 12 months. The junta led by Capt. Amadou Sanogo had been opposed to the extension of the interim president's term, which under the Malian constitution was due to run out on Tuesday. ECOWAS had threatened to reimpose sanctions on Mali if the junta did not stop interfering in the transition. (AP Photo/Harouna Traore)

West Africa's regional bloc says it will investigate who is responsible for allowing Monday's attack on Mali's president to happen.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T12:16:43Z
Houston museum unveils $85 million dinosaur hall

In a photo made May 15, 2012 Director Pete Larson of the Black Hills Institute of Geologic Research, right, discusses with artist Tomas Schneider how he will use a forklift to hoist a Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil skeleton into place in the new Hall of Paleontology at the Houston Museum of Natural Science Tuesday, May 15, 2012. The exhibit that opens June 2 includes the only Triceratops skin ever found, and a T-rex with three fingers. (AP Photo/Michael Stravato)

Pups in her womb, a large eye visible behind the rib cage, one baby stuck in the birth canal: all fossilized evidence that this ancient marine beast, the Ichthyosaur, died in childbirth.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T12:10:01Z

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