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The death toll from the collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory in Bangladesh swelled to more than 1,000 workers, cementing its place among a grisly lineup of the world’s worst industrial disasters and reinforcing calls that the tragedy lead to lasting change.
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The U.S. Postal Service, which expects to run out of money next month, may have a hard time carrying out a proposal to cut 220,000 jobs by 2015, a postal executive and labor professor said.
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U.S. automakers are close to handing out record profit-sharing checks, bringing new meaning to the term “bonus baby” for Ford Motor Co. hourly worker Nino Pace.
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Debbie Werner is the face of an American workers’ revolution.
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Sergio Marchionne, Chrysler Group LLC’s chief executive officer, was jilted again in his bid to be picked as the company to set the wage-and-benefit pattern in contract talks with a major labor union.
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General Motors Co. will increase entry-level pay by $2 to $3 an hour as part of a tentative agreement on a new four-year contract with the United Auto Workers, said two people familiar with the accord.
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Ford Motor Co. is discussing adding as many as 10,000 jobs in the U.S. in negotiations with the United Auto Workers union on a new four-year contract, according to three people familiar with the talks.
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Medical-marijuana advocates lobbying Congress this week got powerful new allies to help them make the case for getting federal prosecutors to back off: labor leaders.
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General Motors Co. and the United Auto Workers reached a tentative agreement on a four-year labor contract that improves profit sharing and will create jobs, the company and the union said in separate statements.
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Boeing Co. engineers and technical workers split their votes over a new contract, potentially averting a dispute that threatened to disrupt efforts to fix the battery faults that grounded the global 787 Dreamliner fleet.
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