| August 11, 2:00 AM
, 2020 | - The Treasury Department declined a request for $10 billion from General Motors to help finance its possible merger with Chrysler, which would result in the elimination of thousands of jobs.
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 22, 2012 | - Companies including FedEx, Motorola, General Motors, and Resorts International were forgoing contributions to employee 401(k) plans. “It has been a grand experiment,” said an economics professor of employee-investment plans, “and it has failed.”
| Source:
New York Times
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| July 2, 2009 | - The U.S. unemployment rate reached 9.5 percent, and reports for June showed that 6.5 million jobs have been lost in the recession so far, wiping out the previous nine years' gains. Rank-and-file workers in the private sector averaged 33 hours of work per week, the fewest since records began in 1964.
| Source 1:
Bloomberg
Source 2:
NYT
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| March 6, 2009 | - The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that 651,000 jobs were lost in February (making it the third straight month in which more than 650,000 jobs have been lost) thus increasing the unemployment rate to 8.1 percent, the highest level since 1983. The Obama Administration pointed to 60 new highway-paving jobs in Maryland as proof that the $787 billion stimulus package was succeeding. “That's how we're going to get the country back on its feet,” said Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. The White House hopes that the stimulus package will generate 3.5 million jobs; 4.4 million have been lost since the recession began in December 2007, and a total of 12.5 million people are unemployed, a number greater than the combined populations of Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island, Vermont, Wyoming, Washington, D.C., and both Dakotas. Economists predicted that by the summer one in ten Americans would be out of work.
| Source 1:
The Labor Department
Source 2:
New York Times
Source 3:
Washington Post
Source 4:
CNN.com
Source 5:
U.S. Census Bureau
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| February 27, 2009 | - One hundred and fifty people applied, and ten were hired, to wait tables at a topless coffeeshop in Vassalboro, Maine. “People like nudity,” said owner Donald Crabtree, “and coffee is profitable.”
| Source:
CNN
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| December 23, 2008 | -
Manpower Inc., a temporary-staffing agency, lowered its fourth-quarter financial forecast due to a rapid decline in demand.
| Source:
Wall Street Journal
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| December 12, 2008 | - 19 major U.S. companies in other sectors announced plans to lay off more than 80,000 people. Unemployment was increasing faster for college graduates than for non-graduates, as lawyers, architects, tech workers, and National Public Radio hosts were fired.
| Source 1:
WSJ
Source 2:
Minnesota Star-Tribune
Source 3:
NPR
Source 4:
WP
Source 5:
NYT
Source 6:
Detroit Free Press
Source 7:
CNN
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| December 5, 2008 | - The Labor Department reported that 533,000 people lost their jobs in November, a further 621,000 people were forced into part-time employment, and 422,000 more simply dropped out of the labor force. The report, describing a situation far worse than economists expected, also recorded 24,000 layoffs by auto dealers.
| Source:
Marketwatch
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| November 19, 2008 | -
Retail prices fell to their lowest point since 1989, oil fell below $50 a barrel, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the Consumer Price Index fell by 1 percent in October--the sharpest drop in the 61 years the index has been tracked.
| Source 1:
Washington Post
Source 2:
UPI
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| September 23, 2008 | - In India, a mob of recently dismissed workers at an auto-parts manufacturer beat their boss to death. “This is by no means,” said an executive at the parent company, “a regular labor conflict.”
| Source:
Times Online
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| August 22, 2008 | - Nearly half a million people in developing nations were manufacturing virtual weapons and mounts to sell to players of online video games such as World of Warcraft.
| Source:
BBC
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| June 8, 2008 | -
Unemployment rose half a percentage point to 5.5 percent, the largest one-month increase since 1986. Oil prices surged by more than $11 a barrel to a new high of $138.54, and the stock market suffered a 3 percent drop.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 23, 2007 | -
General Motors workers went on strike.
| Source:
BBC News
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| July 15, 2007 | -
Garbage was overflowing in parts of Oakland, California, after two weeks of dispute between Waste Management, Inc., and Teamsters Local 70. “It stinks,” said Oakland resident Jarod Smith.
| Source:
SF Chron
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| December 13, 2006 | - In Baghdad, at a gathering place for poor Shiite laborers, the owner of a truck filled with wheat announced that he was looking for workers. A crowd gathered around the truck and it exploded, killing 70 people and wounding 236.
| Source:
NYT
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| October 12, 2006 | -
Chinese
Wal-Mart workers unionized.
| Source:
International Herald Tribune
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| September 22, 2006 | -
Fruit farmers rallied in Washington, D.C., to protest a shortage of low-wage, uninsured, illegal immigrant
laborers.
| Source:
New York times
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| April 23, 2006 | - An Oakland, California, carpenter named Percy Honnibal was in trouble for carpentering naked.
| Source:
CNN.com
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| April 16, 2006 | - Roger Toussaint, the head of the Transport Workers Union in New York City, was sentenced to 10 days in jail for leading a transit strike in December 2005.
| Source:
Newsday
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| October 4, 2005 | - Between 470,000 and one million French workers demonstrated in support of labor rights.
| Source:
AP
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| July 13, 2005 | - The NHL and Player's Association came to an agreement and announced that hockey could start up again.
| Source:
CBC
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| June 7, 2005 | -
General Motors announced that it will eliminate the jobs of 25,000 blue-collar workers in the United States by the end of 2008; the cuts amount to 22 percent of the company's hourly work force.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| February 22, 2005 | -
UNICEF reported that 180 million children aged five to seventeen are forced into the “worst forms” of labor, including the sex and slave trades.
| Source:
HindustanTimes.com
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| February 13, 2005 | - Wal-Mart agreed to pay $135,540 in fines for breaking child-labor laws.
| Source:
ABC News
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| February 9, 2005 | -
Wal-Mart
announced plans to close a store in Canada after
the store's workers unionized.
| Source:
The Street
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| November 19, 2004 | - A union representing U.N. staff registered a vote of no confidence in the U.N.'s senior management.
| Source:
Fox News
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| August 7, 2004 | - fewer jobs were being created, crude oil prices reached a record high of $44.41,
| Source:
New York Times
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| October 3, 2003 | - Garbage was piling up in Chicago,
| Source:
New York Times
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| February 26, 2002 | -
Britons, who waste an estimated 286 million work hours every week, celebrated National Slacker Day.
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| August 14, 2001 | - By the time the President returns to Washington, D.C., on Labor Day, he will have spent almost half his presidency at vacation spots.
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| December 12, 2000 | - Edmond Pope, an American businessman, was sentenced, after a Moscow show trial, to twenty years' hard labor for trying to buy nonclassified information about a torpedo; the judge in the case took just two hours to produce a twenty-page decision. President Putin said he would accept the recommendation of the pardon commission to release Pope; the commission's chairman noted that Russians “are a magnanimous people, although legends circulate in the world about our cruelty.”
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| December 5, 2000 | - Velupillai Prabhakaran, leader of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers rebel group, announced that he was ready to negotiate a peace; the government issued a press release saying they would fight “until the enemy is totally eliminated.” Venezuela's supreme court ruled that President Hugo Chávez can proceed with a referendum to ban independent labor
unions and replace them with one national government-controlled union loyal to President Hugo Chávez.
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| December 5, 2000 | - The Pentagon was using sweatshop labor in Nicaragua to make uniforms.
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| October 3, 2000 | -
British prime minister Tony Blair attended a Labor party conference; “Let's Work Together,” by Canned Heat, was the theme song.
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| September 12, 2000 | - President Hugo Chávez, having successfully consolidated his personal control of every branch of the Venezuelan government, turned his attention to private civic groups and said he would demolish the country's main labor union and replace it with one dominated by the government.
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| August 1, 2000 | - Over fifty multinational corporations, many of whom have been criticized for using sweatshop and child
labor in poor countries, signed a global compact to end the use of sweatshop and child labor in poor countries.
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