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courtesy of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) said last night that it was unlikely that the agency will reach a decision in the labor complaint filed by Wal-Mart Stores...
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ThinkstockCliffs Natural Resources Inc. (NYSE: CLF), a major producer of iron ore from mines in North America, Brazil, and Australia, has idled some of its North American ore production and will...
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courtesy of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.The litany of complaints of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) workers who plan to walk off their jobs this week include objections to low pay, the company’s...
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courtesy of XeroxTwo old tech companies, both in trouble, have announced layoffs. Their actions might be attributed to a bad economy or to the fiscal cliff. But making that assumption would be a...
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Texas Instruments Inc. (NASDAQ: TXN), elbowed out of much of the mobile and consumer electronics chip industry by Samsung, ARM and Qualcomm Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM), fired 1,700 people today, as the...
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courtesy of AppleSina News reports that Foxconn, which makes components for Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) products among others, may open a factory in the United States. Among the sites being evaluated...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Labor Department has reported its change in weekly jobless claims. Last week was of course skewed by Hurricane Sandy in the Northeast, and now that we have seen an unemployment...
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Wikimedia CommonsBoeing Co. (NYSE: BA) did pretty much what we expect other aerospace and defense companies to do. The company waited for the outcome of the presidential election, and now it is...
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ThinkstockFor the fourth year in a row, business students from around the world rated Google as the company they would most like to work for. The World’s Most Attractive Employers 2012 report,...
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Wikimedia CommonsGoldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) has trimmed the number of partners at the firm to 407, according to a report from Reuters. In February the firm listed 438 partners. The overall...
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ThinkstockSpain’s Ministry of Employment and Social Security released data showing that unemployment rose 2.7% in October, which translated into a jobless count of “4.833.521 personas.” If the...
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thinkstockThe solar sector’s problems may reach far and wide, but the employment around the industry actually is still growing. A new report from the Solar Energy Industries Association will be...
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thinkstockAfter a highly controversial drop in the unemployment rate to 7.8% from 8.1% in September, we now have the October unemployment rate announcement from the Labor Department. The official...
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ThinkstockAtlanta Federal Reserve President Dennis Lockhart suggested in a speech today in Chattanooga, Tennessee, that the Fed needs to look beyond the headline unemployment rate and additions to...
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ThinkstockWe have two more key economic and labor reports ahead of Friday’s key payrolls and unemployment report. The third-quarter preliminary nonfarm productivity and unit labor costs have been...
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