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...The Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers — Transportation Division and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen have said they will not accept any proposal from the railways that...
...Tens of thousands of civilians and several thousand military personnel have been killed. The southern port of Mariupol, a city of 300,000 people, has been 90 per cent destroyed in a brutal siege....
...Last year the UK directed pension fund trustees to consider ESG factors or give a reason why they had not. Some investors were already on board....
...and worker uprisings....
...the balance sheet in a period of uncertainty....
...Brent and metals are off 4 per cent or so. You know why....
...Pension plans invest in a broad array of asset classes, but with many stock markets at or near record highs, the prospect of gains are dimming across the board....
...Steel customers, however, have been alarmed by the increase in the US price of the metal of about 50 per cent since last autumn....
...plan is yet in place....
...The hiss of hydraulic pumps fills the air as an army of robots passes sheets of metal between themselves, pressing and cutting them in turn....
...Amazon accused on TV over temporary workers Amazon faced a public outcry this week in Germany, its biggest overseas market, after a television documentary shone a withering spotlight on the treatment of...
...(Financial Times) US pension fund sues big banks over CDS ‘dominance’: The class action antitrust suit filed by the Sheet Metal Workers Local No. 33 Cleveland District Pension Plan pension fund accuses...
..., laid out a four-point plan for a “kind of co-operation never before witnessed in China’s automotive industry”....
...Aquarius has about $200m of cash on its balance sheet....
...We are as orthodox as a church 500 years ago. But we are relating it in the culture of southern California today.”...
...Small businesses with more than 80 workers that do not offer health plans will pay $2bn in penalties, while medium-sized businesses (100-1,00 workers) would face a bill of $11.8bn, according to the Urban...
...Related links: The Beige Book summary – Federal Reserve Board A revisionist history of the week beginning Aug 30, 2010 – FT Alphaville So much for “better than expected” – FT Alphaville...
...ice sheets....
...The move is part of a plan to close a $584m budget gap, exacerbated by a drop in state funding. “We face a huge economic tsunami,” said Jeffrey Bleich, chairman of the trustees....
...I also consulted Tom O’Malia, director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Southern California....
...Given the popularity of reclaimed wood – more than 40m board feet is sold a year in the US, five times the amount sold a decade ago – some are concerned about supply. But McFarland is not one of them....
...And yet, when the economy in southern China recovers, women such as Luyuan will be even more of a challenge to developed countries....
...Texas City’s safety business plan for 2005 said the death of a worker within 12 to 18 months was a “key risk”. Even further back, BP executives had been aware of problems....
...He may have been one of the founders of the internet search engine that is about to take over the world, but his website reads like a geek crib sheet....
...Alabama contest reveals ideological divisions Governor Bob Riley of Alabama has chaired his local Baptist church’s board of trustees, taught at Sunday school and holds regular Bible study meetings in his...
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