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            Mass strike against pension reform hits France
          
          
        
 
      
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            BASF agrees to buy Cognis for $3.8 billion
          
          
        
 
      
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            New clash in World Cup labor dispute
          
          
        
 
      
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            Jobless benefits extension stalls in Senate
          
          
        
 
      
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            South African police fire teargas at World Cup workers
          
          
        
 
      
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            Thousands of Minnesota nurses strike Twin Cities hospitals
          
          
        
 
      
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            Experts: BP's plan to protect spill workers inadequate
          
          
        
 
      
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            After suicides, scrutiny of China's grim factories
          
          
        
 
      
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            Election-year politics derail bid to save teachers' jobs
          
          
        
 
      
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            Thai, Argentine textile workers unite against slave labor
          
          
        
 
      
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            Transnet rail, port services resume as workers return
          
          
        
 
      
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            Thousands rally in New Jersey against budget cuts
          
          
        
 
      
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            Argentina: Greek financial rescue doomed to fail
          
          
        
 
      
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            In job market shift, some workers are left behind
          
          
        
 
      
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            Rescuers among the dead as toll rises in twin Russian mine blasts
          
          
        
 
      
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            An environmental and worker disaster
          
          
        
 
      
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            US: Child farmworkers' dangerous lives
          
          
        
 
      
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            Concern about intimidation by Massey prompts Big Branch investigators to solicit anonymous tips
          
          
        
 
      
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            Global protests mark May Day
          
          
        
 
      
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            W.Va. coal-mine disaster prompts criminal probe
          
          
        
 
      
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            Tax Wall Street, 7,500 protesters say
          
          
        
 
      
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            Wal-Mart to face massive class action suit
          
          
        
 
      
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            Greek unions step up protests, blockade boats
          
          
        
 
      
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            Mine disaster calls attention to revolving door between industry, government
          
          
        
 
      
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            W.Va. mine has years of serious violations, officials say
          
          
        
 
      
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            Dozens more Massey mines cited as unsafe
          
          
        
 
      
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            East Europe: "Inevitable" budget cuts anger unions
          
          
        
 
      
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            Unemployment rate climbs in 27 states
          
          
        
 
      
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            British Gas workers vote to strike
          
          
        
 
      
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            British Airways strike enters third day
          
          
        
 
      
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            Silicon sweatshops - an illness in Suzhou
          
          
        
 
      
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            90% of Scots BA flights will be hit by strike
          
          
        
 
      
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            Calif. teachers see red over mass pink slips
          
          
        
 
      
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            Walmart fires Michigan man for using medical marijuana
          
          
        
 
      
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            In hard times, lured into trade school and debt
          
          
        
 
      
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            NC Jan. jobless rate hits record 11.1 percent
          
          
        
 
      
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            ID card proposed for all American workers
          
          
        
 
      
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            Public pension plans are adding risk to raise returns
          
          
        
 
      
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            White collars are feeling the blue-collar woes
          
          
        
 
      
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            Hispanic farmers seek redress for years of discrimination