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		<title><![CDATA[Credit Unions, Building Socs Eye Mergers]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Australia's credit unions and building societies have come through the global financial crisis in good shape and are looking to merge to provide economies of scale and repel competition from the major banks.But mutual depository institutions need to be choosy about potential merger partners because part of their attraction...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:20:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Do We Need Labor Unions Anymore?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is the destruction of the U.S. auto industry the last nail in the coffin for labor unions? Are they vestigial organizations that have served their purpose and are now obsolete? Are they saddling companies and entire industries with debt and expenses they can't afford in an increasingly global marketplace? by...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:28:53 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Sun Times Union Has Hopes?And Fears?For Second Bid By Monday Afternoon]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Bidders have until the end of the day Monday to challenge investor Jim Tyree&#8217;s $26.5 million offer for the Chicago Sun Times and 50 other newspapers, the rival Chicago Tribune notes via Romenesko. The Sun Times&#8217; union is watching closely, as Tyree has demanded strict union concessions in as...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:02:25 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Workers protest at Opel in Antwerp]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Several thousand local trade unionists and Opel workers from across Europe descended on the carmaker's Antwerp factory yesterday.They were there to signal their unity in the face of Europe-wide job cuts detailed by Magna International, the Canadian parts-maker which is leading a consortium to buy Opel from General Motors."Wir...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Strike ballot for energy workers]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A strike by thousands of workers at oil refineries and power stations including Sellafield moved closer yesterday after unions gave seven days' notice of a ballot on industrial action.The move was the latest in a grinding row between employers and workers over jobs and conditions in the engineering construction...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Should Sales Reps Start a Union?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most sales pundits seem to believe that sales should be a profession.Â  I'm wondering, though, whether it might not make more sense for sales reps to start a union.Â  Not a union in the "look for the union label" way.Â  Maybe something more like the Screen Actors Guild or the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:30:17 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SEIU Targets Banks for Union Push]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Service Employees International Union has painted a bullseye on America's banks, drawing a particular bead on Bank of America. The labor group wants to help tellers and office workers at B of A and other big banks to unionize, rallying support this week for the Employee Free Choice Act,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:00:32 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Union Shakedowns Face Renewable Energy Companies]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA["It's not a warm fuzzy thing they're doing," says a Sierra Club spokesman of union labor tactics against renewable energy companies. "It's a very self-interested thing." But the question, never quite asked by Todd Woody in an article about unions in the New York Times, is whether it's acceptable for...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:30:26 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Industrial Workers Skeptical of Job Outlook]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama administration officials assured the swelling ranks of jobless industrial workers they will not be forgotten. But workers aren't convinced.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Some Welcome GM Bankruptcy]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the announcement of bankruptcy, some General Motors employees have actually embraced the recent Chapter 11 filing. Dean Reynolds reports on the reasons behind their relief.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[NY Times Pulls Plug: Boston Globe has 60 Days Left (UPDATE)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: The New York Times has now updated this story, saying that the Boston Globe is not necessarily under threat of closure, as previously reported. Clearly there are intense negotiations going on. Expect more contradictory reports. (11:18 am PST May 4, 2009)    UPDATE 2: Here is the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 08:21:58 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA['Ch. 11 Good For Business']]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite dismal car sales for the month of April and the recent announcement of bankruptcy, Chrysler dealerships around the nation are optimistic about the future. Ben Tracy reports from Los Angeles.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Labor Act Hits Wal-Mart Prematurely]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Call it the Employee Free Choice Act or the card check bill, but if new legislation amending labor laws to make it easier for unions to organize does squeeze through the United States Senate, it could have some interesting and unintended consequences for Wal-Mart, among others.    The...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:27:01 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[JetBlue Pilots Vote Down Union]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When David Neeleman founded JetBlue, he said that if a workgroup voted a union in, he would have felt like he failed his employees.  Yesterday, the pilots voted on a union contract and overwhelming turned it down.  Even though Neeleman isn't at the airline anymore, I'm sure he's...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 07:58:21 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Washington State's Cost Cutting Moves Opposed by Unions]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The State of Washington is facing a budget deficit of close to six billion dollars over the next two years.  The newly re-elected governor, Christine Gregoire, released a budget that tried to close the gap.  The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that one of the efforts will be to not...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:00:52 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Did Wal-Mart Settle Pay Lawsuits to Help Block Pro-Union Law?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/ceo/?p=1589]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Business continues to gear up to deal with the pro-union Employee Free Choice Act which would allow unions to organize via open check-off cards rather than secret ballot elections.    Pro-business management groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and various conservative think tanks, public relations firms...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 05:32:24 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Mostly-Healthy Credit Unions To Get Capital Boost]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the most part, credit unions have plodded on just fine during the financial crisis. Even so, a government plan is due this week that could tap as much as $41 billion to make sure the system that keeps credit unions viable continues to perform.    Millions of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:12:01 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Boeing's Union Struggles May Affect Programs and Revenue]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/government/1000165/boeings-union-struggles-may-affect-programs/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Boeing recently negotiated a contract with their engineers in Washington state.  This after coming off a nasty strike with the machinist union this Fall.  Now they are trying to negotiate with the local in Wichita where they work on a lot of their military programs.  The first...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:00:02 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Obama Criticizes TSA for Contract Award]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Homeland Security awarded Lockheed Martin an eight year, $1 Billion plus contract to manage the Transportation Security Administration's TSA human resources.  Now Federal Computer Weekly reports that President-elect Obama wrote a letter to the Association of Federal Government Employees AFGE union that the award should not...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:00:06 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[WTF, California???]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Civil rights activists gather in New York City to protest Proposition 8.]]></description>
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