Hints and tips:
...Unions and even some members of Biden’s Democratic party have been critical of the White House move this year to halt new exports of liquefied natural gas, saying it could hurt local industry....
...“If you work for the richest company in history, you shouldn’t qualify for welfare,” argues Walmart’s leading union antagonist, the UFCW....
...Kim Cordova, head of a local UFCW chapter in Greeley, Colorado, said any effort to protect companies would reduce the incentive to create a safe work environment....
...John Grant, president of UFCW Local 770, said too many store managers were preoccupied with sales and there were still too many customers in stores, especially in poorer communities....
...The company has had disagreements with the local union chapter over last week’s reopening of a beef plant in Greeley, Colorado....
...So on behalf of the Union of Predictable Financial Journalists and Sub Editors (London SE branch), I feel a duty to warn you of such imminent puns as: “Sofa, so bad”; “Furniture group sat on its backside...
...Ben Frantz, who proudly wears a black shirt embroidered with the medallion of his United Autoworkers local 652, is one of them....
...Hipsters presumably buy reclaimed Portuguese chimney tiles from a local upcycling collective, but Topps can’t be faulted for trying....
...The tidal wave of regulations at EU and local level has become a real squeeze on resources....
...“These four electoral votes right here could make the difference,” he told supporters at a Teamsters union hall. “We don’t know how this thing is going to play out.”...
...(Financial Times) - The Buba and the German Monetary Union. (FT Gavyn Davies’ blog) - Expectations are for below-target Chinese 3Q GDP....
...Index down -1.71% at 4,858 Currencies €/$ 1.27 (1.27) $/¥ 80.40 (80.17) Commodities Brent Crude (ICE) down -1.12 at 111.12 Light Crude (Nymex) down -1.65 at 92.33 100 Oz Gold (Comex) down -19.30 at 1,538...
...Local 881, representing more than 400,000 workers at local supermarkets, joined other unions in the federation in publicly accepting wage levels at a proposed Walmart store on the city’s impoverished South...
...in 2007, at the peak of an anti-Walmart campaign by the UFCW grocery workers’ union....
...The UFCW grocery workers’ union sees Walmart’s grocery-selling Supercenter stores as a threat to the superior wage and health benefit packages paid by the city’s traditional unionised supermarkets....
...Walmart has long faced political resistance to its plans in the largest US cities, largely orchestrated by the UFCW grocery workers’ union and its political allies....
...The suit, eventually defeated, was seen as the work not of concerned owl lovers but of an informal alliance between the UFCW grocery union and local supermarket businesses – both threatened by Tesco’s US...
...The UFCW grocery workers union, for example, abandoned efforts to organise at Wal-Mart, the largest US private employer, in 2003....
...Todd Conger, a local UFCW spokesman, said a majority of staff at a store in Huntington Beach, south of Los Angeles, has requested recognition as a UFCW bargaining unit, with 70 per cent of the 19 staff at...
...With only 60 small US stores so far, Tesco does not have the local political clout of Wal-Mart, the main target of the union, or other established non-unionised grocers....
...However, it is expected to open five of the stores in San Diego, in southern California, where local political opposition backed by the UFCW grocery workers’ union has slowed the expansion of its grocery...
...The main energy providers had increased annual profits by 538 per cent to more than £3bn since 2003, the union said. Yet suppliers had raised prices by up to 35 per cent in the past year alone....
...Provincial law allows union recognition without a ballot, leading to local union victories against both Wal-Mart and Cintas, a laundry services company....
...The event is also expected to draw protesters from the UFCW grocery workers union, which has sought to put pressure on Tesco to use unionised workers....
...the US, although the UFCW has booked out the theatre for one night’s performance this week....
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