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Classic VersionThe ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool...(snip)Modern VersionThe ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool..(snip)..CBS, NBC and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast...(snip)Click here for full article.

<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) --  Federal agents arrested at least 60 airport workers, many with access to restricted areas such as planes and runways, for allegedly using false identification at Southern California airports.</p> <p>The raid Thursday, part of a national sweep started last fall known as "Operation Tarmac," uncovered immigration violations and document fraud, but found no connections to terrorist groups, authorities said.</p>

INS reports a growing number of illegal workers are paying smugglers to bring their families to U.S. He kissed his wife goodbye, hugged his children and headed north alone, one of thousands of Mexican men who leave their families behind to work in the United States. But after arriving in Houston, Angel realized he missed his wife's cooking. Back in Mexico, his daughters cried for him often, and the eldest one's grades slipped at school. So Angel did what so many illegal immigrants do these days: He paid a human smuggler $5,500 to bring his wife and two daughters, then...

U.S. Plans to Evacuate Workers in Case of Attack Sat Aug 17, 4:22 PM ET CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - The Bush administration has approved plans aimed at speeding the evacuation of federal workers in the nation's capital in the event of an attack using weapons of mass destruction, officials said on Saturday. Under the plan the Office of Personnel Management, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the General Services Administration would have the authority to order an evacuation of up to 350,000 federal workers in the Washington, D.C., area and 1.8 million nationwide if an attack occurs or if one...

<p>NEW YORK — Labor groups usually fight for retirement and dental plans, but a group of Philadelphia workers want somewhere to hang their clothes while they work — in the nude.</p> <p>The Philadelphia Models Guild was established by art school models fed up with unacceptable work conditions. However, unlike blue-collar workers who block gates, picket and chant for rights, the guild is trying to open up communication lines between models and the schools where they pose for art students.</p>

<p>Computer hackers gained access to the California state government's computer systems in April and sensitive financial and personal information about as many as 265,000 state workers, officials said Friday.</p> <p>The electronic assault on payroll and other records was discovered by the Sacramento Valley Hi Tech Task Force, which determined that none of the information has been used illegally so far.</p>

To all good Americans (sorry Liberals ...this excludes you) please write your congressperson and ask them to support H.R. 3632, the “Workers’ Freedom of Choice Act”! This bill prohibits Big Labor Unions from deducting money from a worker’s paycheck to use for radical left-wing politics, whether the worker supports those beliefs or not! This bill is being promoted by Linda Chavez, Bush’s first nominee for Secretary of Labor ,who was railroaded out of town by radical communist Democrats! Now it’s payback time! Big Labor gives $800 million a year to the Communist Democrat party! We can stop this “special privilege”...

Deaths of Hispanic workers soar 53%Mon Mar 25, 6:18 AM ET Jim Hopkins USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO -- The Labor Department is intensifying efforts to stem an alarming rise in workplace deaths among Hispanics. Such deaths were up 53% in 2000 from 1992. Meanwhile, deaths dropped 10% for non-Hispanics, the latest data show. Fatalities fell in most of the nine years among non-Hispanics. But they rose steadily for Hispanics. At least 815 Hispanics died on the job in 2000, mostly in construction trades and often because of language gaps between supervisors and immigrant workers, experts say. Driving the trend: *...