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  • Hackers may have hit 265,000 state workers

    05/24/2002 5:04:07 PM PDT · by Lorenb420 · 7 replies · 173+ views
    Sacramento Bee ^ | 2002-05-24 | Sam Stanton
    <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>
  • Workers' Freedom of Choice Act

    05/21/2002 10:10:46 AM PDT · by Lug · 4 replies · 180+ views
    Linda Chavez | 5-21-2002 | Lug
    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%

    03/26/2002 8:23:16 PM PST · by Libloather · 26 replies · 277+ views
    Yahoo News ^ | 3/25/02 | Jim Hopkins
    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: *...