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Hundreds of Chicago factory workers who are fighting to keep their jobs in the US received a visit from Hillary Clinton on Monday, the day before a tightly contested Democratic primary in Illinois. “It is imperative that we do more to keep jobs here, and we do more to attract jobs to places like Chicago, well, really across our country,” Clinton said after the meeting. Last summer, Mondelēz International, the multinational food and beverages group and owner of Nabisco, announced that the company’s factory on Chicago’s South Side would be cutting 600 jobs and transferring production to new facilities in...

PARIS (AFX) - France Telecom (Paris: FR0000133308 - news) said its TPSA unit, in which it owns a 47.5 pct stake, will cut 3,500 jobs in Poland next year, out of a total of about 30,000. Another 500 jobs will be cut by employee retirements, a France Telecom official said, after the group informed labour unions of the job cuts on Monday. TPSA has been cutting jobs since France Telecom acquired its stake in 2000, when the operator had some 75,000 employees. About 6,000 jobs were cut at TPSA in 2004, France Telecom said