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  • Paid sick time law passes in NYC; veto overridden

    06/27/2013 3:01:45 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 10 replies
    Associated Press ^ | Jun. 27, 2013 3:59 AM EDT | Jennifer Peltz
    New York City is becoming the most populous place in the United States to make businesses provide workers with paid sick time, after lawmakers overrode a mayoral veto early Thursday to pass a law expected to affect more than 1 million workers. With the vote, the city joined Portland, Ore.; San Francisco; Seattle; Washington, D.C.; and the state of Connecticut in requiring the benefit for at least some workers. Similar measures have failed in some other places, including Milwaukee, Denver and Philadelphia. Supporters see the New York measure as a pace-setter, although it has some significant limits and conditions, and...
  • Recall election ordered for Wis. Gov. Scott Walker

    03/30/2012 1:36:16 PM PDT · by IbJensen · 29 replies
    CNS News ^ | 3/30/12 | Staff AP
    MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Embattled first-term Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker will face a recall this spring after an election was ordered Friday following the collection of more than 900,000 signatures in the wake of his push against union bargaining rights. The Government Accountability Board voted 5-0 to order the recall, a move that has been expected for weeks given the large number of signatures gathered between November and January. It took 540,208 signatures to trigger a recall. Assuming a Democratic primary is necessary, it will be in just 39 days on May 8. The actual recall vote then will be...
  • City, big unions mistaken to demonize Wal-Mart

    02/03/2006 4:38:24 PM PST · by george76 · 18 replies · 666+ views
    Chicago Sun Times ^ | February 3, 2006 | JONATHAN HOENIG
    Welcome, Wal-Mart Wal-Mart (has) grown from a single shop in a small Arkansas town into a world-wide colossus with 4,000 stores, 1.3 million employees, $245 billion in annual sales and 100 million customers each week. The company's success isn't built on exploiting. It's built on providing. Wal-Mart can't force anybody to work at its stores, nor can it force anybody to shop there. Through relentless cost-cutting and technological innovation, the company offers low-cost goods to consumers, jobs for willing employees and solid returns for shareholders. Yet Chicago...The City Council killed the prospect of a Supercenter in Chicago's South Side Chatham...