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NASA Aims To Restore Space Station Traffic Congestion As Sunita Williams Remains Stuck
NASA is grappling with an impending congestion at the International Space Station (ISS) due to recent delays and technical issues involving SpaceX and Boeing, as the space agency works to restore smooth traffic flow to and from the orbiting laborator
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Doritos Seasoning Under Scrutiny For Health Impact On Australian Workers: Report
A labor union reports that workers who have been exposed to the seasoning of spicy corn chips are expressing health-related complaints.
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Artificial Intelligence Worries Hollywood Actors Ahead of Union Labour Talks
Artificial intelligence allowed people with no real actors and far smaller resources than major Hollywood studios to generate the fake movie trailers, feeding debate on the issue that will be on the bargaining table when the SAG-AFTRA actors union begins labor talks with studios on June 7.
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Apple Workplace Rules Violate US Labour Law, Agency Finds
Apple maintains workplace policies that unlawfully discourage employees from discussing working conditions, a US labour agency has found. The National Labor Relations Board will issue a complaint targeting the policies and claiming Apple executives made comments that stymied worker organising unless the company settles first, an agency official s...
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Amazon Will File Objections to Recent Labor Union Elections in New York
Amazon will fight the recent Labor Union's win in New York and will file substantial objections. The company will compile and preset evidence about problematic election conduct to the Nation Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
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Google Violated US Labour Laws in Clampdown on Worker Organising, Regulator Says
The National Labor Relations Board issued a complaint accusing Google of unlawfully monitoring and questioning several workers who were then fired for protesting company policies and trying to organise a union.
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H-1B Not Immigration But Trade, Services Issue: India
On Tuesday, hammering his "America First" campaign theme, Trump signed an order tasking the department heads of State, Justice, Homeland Security and Labor to propose reforms in order to ensure H-1B visas are given to the "most-skilled or highest paid" petitioners.
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Arun Jaitley Raises H-1B Visa Issue With US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Told No Decision Yet
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley -strongly raised- the key H-1B visa issue in his meeting with US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in Washington DC today after US President Donald Trump, earlier this week, signed an executive order ordering a review of the policy by the departments of State, Justice, Labor and Homeland Security.
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Truckers Threaten to go on Indefinite Nationwide Strike From October 1
Apex transporters body AIMTC today threatened to go an indefinite nationwide strike from October 1, alleging that the government has failed to address their issues, including removal of toll.
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London Braces for Travel Chaos as Tube Strike Begins
London Underground staff walked off their posts on Wednesday to protest plans to run Tube trains all night at weekends, the second shutdown of the British capital's subway in under a month.
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London Tube Staff to Hold Second Strike in 2 Months
London's Underground network will shut down this week for the second time in two months after talks again broke down in a dispute over all night services, trade unions said Monday.
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Train Drivers in Germany End Week-Long Strike
German train drivers today ended a week-long walkout, the longest in the history of rail operator Deutsche Bahn, with a promise to give strike-weary passengers "a break" for a while.
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Australia Seeks Public View on Greenhouse Gas Target
Australia today said it was inviting views from the public on what the nation's greenhouse gas emissions reduction target should be post-2020, before it announces the goal mid-year.
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Lufthansa Pilots Extend Strike as Hundreds of Flights Grounded
Pilots for German airline Lufthansa announced they would extend until Friday a strike that has already hit tens of thousands of passengers and seen hundreds of flights cancelled in a dispute over a retirement scheme.
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Lufthansa Cancels 750 Flights Due to Pilots' Strike
German airline Lufthansa cancelled around 750 short and medium haul flights today as pilots began a two-day walkout in a long-running dispute over early retirement.
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NASA Aims To Restore Space Station Traffic Congestion As Sunita Williams Remains Stuck
NASA is grappling with an impending congestion at the International Space Station (ISS) due to recent delays and technical issues involving SpaceX and Boeing, as the space agency works to restore smooth traffic flow to and from the orbiting laborator
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Doritos Seasoning Under Scrutiny For Health Impact On Australian Workers: Report
A labor union reports that workers who have been exposed to the seasoning of spicy corn chips are expressing health-related complaints.
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Artificial Intelligence Worries Hollywood Actors Ahead of Union Labour Talks
Artificial intelligence allowed people with no real actors and far smaller resources than major Hollywood studios to generate the fake movie trailers, feeding debate on the issue that will be on the bargaining table when the SAG-AFTRA actors union begins labor talks with studios on June 7.
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Apple Workplace Rules Violate US Labour Law, Agency Finds
Apple maintains workplace policies that unlawfully discourage employees from discussing working conditions, a US labour agency has found. The National Labor Relations Board will issue a complaint targeting the policies and claiming Apple executives made comments that stymied worker organising unless the company settles first, an agency official s...
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Amazon Will File Objections to Recent Labor Union Elections in New York
Amazon will fight the recent Labor Union's win in New York and will file substantial objections. The company will compile and preset evidence about problematic election conduct to the Nation Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
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Google Violated US Labour Laws in Clampdown on Worker Organising, Regulator Says
The National Labor Relations Board issued a complaint accusing Google of unlawfully monitoring and questioning several workers who were then fired for protesting company policies and trying to organise a union.
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H-1B Not Immigration But Trade, Services Issue: India
On Tuesday, hammering his "America First" campaign theme, Trump signed an order tasking the department heads of State, Justice, Homeland Security and Labor to propose reforms in order to ensure H-1B visas are given to the "most-skilled or highest paid" petitioners.
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Arun Jaitley Raises H-1B Visa Issue With US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Told No Decision Yet
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley -strongly raised- the key H-1B visa issue in his meeting with US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in Washington DC today after US President Donald Trump, earlier this week, signed an executive order ordering a review of the policy by the departments of State, Justice, Labor and Homeland Security.
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Truckers Threaten to go on Indefinite Nationwide Strike From October 1
Apex transporters body AIMTC today threatened to go an indefinite nationwide strike from October 1, alleging that the government has failed to address their issues, including removal of toll.
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London Braces for Travel Chaos as Tube Strike Begins
London Underground staff walked off their posts on Wednesday to protest plans to run Tube trains all night at weekends, the second shutdown of the British capital's subway in under a month.
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London Tube Staff to Hold Second Strike in 2 Months
London's Underground network will shut down this week for the second time in two months after talks again broke down in a dispute over all night services, trade unions said Monday.
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Train Drivers in Germany End Week-Long Strike
German train drivers today ended a week-long walkout, the longest in the history of rail operator Deutsche Bahn, with a promise to give strike-weary passengers "a break" for a while.
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Australia Seeks Public View on Greenhouse Gas Target
Australia today said it was inviting views from the public on what the nation's greenhouse gas emissions reduction target should be post-2020, before it announces the goal mid-year.
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Lufthansa Pilots Extend Strike as Hundreds of Flights Grounded
Pilots for German airline Lufthansa announced they would extend until Friday a strike that has already hit tens of thousands of passengers and seen hundreds of flights cancelled in a dispute over a retirement scheme.
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Lufthansa Cancels 750 Flights Due to Pilots' Strike
German airline Lufthansa cancelled around 750 short and medium haul flights today as pilots began a two-day walkout in a long-running dispute over early retirement.
