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...He’s not afraid to take on his 670 active fighters, who are all contract workers. A 2021 survey by sports website The Athletic showed that only 6.5 per cent of MMA fighters don’t want to form a union....
...Certainly, the food remains classic and lush (guinea hen with truffles and Madeira et al), and the prices remain high to the point of becoming a sort of performance art....
...for District of Columbia Circuit, Washington, DC, July 29 1976; Leonard Woodcock, president, United Automobile Workers, New York, April 9 1976; Arnold Miller, president, United Mine Workers, Washington,...
...Most hurtfully, some have even accused us of being no better than any other company. They refuse to accept our loftier values and desire to reorder this shoddy world....
...(NYT$) Unions need an app With the rise of the sharing economy, unions need their own killer app that will dispense advice to workers when they need it, says Michael Skapinker....
...countries * China’s trade unionists flex muscles | After Walmart wins a Pyrrhic victory over axed workers in Changde, multinationals operating in China are taking note of rising union confidence * One...
...Abe et al are keen on ending deflation — but they are going to hinder that push with a fiscal tightening. No tension there, then....
...… Eleanor Marx: A Life, by Rachel Holmes, Bloomsbury, RRP£25 Marx produced the first English translation of Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, was the first woman to lead the British dock workers’ and gas workers...
...a Beatle/friend of Madonna, Gwyneth, Cameron et al/mother of four – she is Just Like Everyone Else, this seems to be going to extremes....
...2ea7a522-46d4-11e1-bc5f-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1kFa7cUDU Peru sets up close scrutiny of Conga mine Peru’s government has chosen three international consultants to review the paralysed $4.8bn Conga gold and...
...Losses have run as high as $18m per day for the US company, which operates one of the world’s largest gold and copper mines in the remote eastern highlands of Papua, since roughly 8,000 workers began industrial...
...Copper won’t halt Chile’s $67bn bet on mines Chile, the world’s biggest copper- producing nation, expects mining companies to maintain their investment plans even after prices slumped by the most in three...
...Lucy Kellaway: The thief, his victim and the company laptop Not long ago a story was posted on the Bank of America Merrill Lynch staff website with the headline, “The associate, the burglar and the secured...
...out for a curry on Drummond Street....
...God bless the United States of America. Thank you, everybody. (Applause.)...
...The US and Canadian governments would initially own 72.5 per cent of the new GM, with the remaining 17.5 per cent held by a United Auto Workers union healthcare fund....
...the United States of America....
...As a former investment banker, Augar tells the story of the disaster in the financial markets. What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...A shareholder derivative action in the Delaware Court of Chancery: Seymour v. Samuels, et al....
...The Hajj, however, is by far the better known of the two migrations, thanks to its international character and the dramatic pictures it yields of white-cloaked faithful descending on the Masjid al-Haram...
...I fought tobacco companies and trial lawyers, drug companies and union bosses. I fought for the right strategy and more troops in Iraq, when it wasn’t a popular thing to do....
...The civil lawsuit, filed by the International Labor Rights Fund and the United Steelworkers of America, accuses Drummond, an Alabama-based mining company, of paying paramilitaries to kill union leaders who...
...Whether that number should be seen as a portent, of course, is too soon to tell. Syl Tang tracks trends and runs HipGuide Inc....
...Sheikh Mohammed is, essentially, the chairman of Dubai Inc, sitting on top of government as well as a series of companies created to take the lead on development projects....
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