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Tea union demands wage hike
2014-12-14 04:53:07| Agriculture - Topix.net
Jorhat, Dec. 13: The Chah Shramik Mukti Sangram Samiti, Asom, a tea workers' union, today demanded that the wages for tea workers be increased to Rs 400 from the existing Rs 94 on expiry of the three-year wage agreement on December 31. It has also demanded a CBI inquiry into the alleged difference of amount, which the management was paying the Food Corporation of India, to procure rice and flour as ration and the amount being deducted from the wages of workers, alleging that a scam was going on for years.
11-Year-Old Demands Climate Action With Vow of Silence Pledge
2014-12-10 14:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: I am writing to tell you about a brave 11-year-old boy named Itzcuauhtli (eat-squat-lee). I first saw him in videos with his brother Xiuhtezcatl (shoe-tez-cot), performing hip-hop inspired by their love for the Earth and their indigenous roots. In September, I had an opportunity to meet him at the Peoples Climate March in New York City, and I was impressed by his passionate voice. A few weeks later, after performing at a conference with his group Earth Guardians, Itzcuauhtli became overwhelmed...
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Obama demands $6bn for Ebola fight
2014-12-03 03:04:16| Biotech - Topix.net
US President Barack Obama has renewed calls for Congress to approve $6bn in emergency aid to fight the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The president made the plea on a visit to the National Institutes of Health, where he congratulated scientists on work towards a vaccine.
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OUR Walmart Demands Chain Pay $15/Hr., While UFCW-Unionized Kroger Pays Far Less
2014-11-28 22:03:40| Grocery - Topix.net
In a Tuesday column originally appearing at RealClearMarkets.com , the Manhattan Institute's Diana Furchtgott-Roth tore into the hypocrites at OUR Walmart, the union-backed effort to intimidate the nation's largest retailer into paying all employees at least $15 per hour. In the process, Furchtgott-Roth noted a particularly important fact which I have yet to see reported elsewhere in the organized labor-sympathetic establishment press about the United Food and Commerical Workers , one of the primary backers of today's OUR Walmart Black Friday protests.
Nigeria demands Shell pay $4bn for 2011 offshore oil spill damage
2014-11-28 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
The Nigerian Parliament is demanding Shell to pay about $4bn for the damage caused by an oil spill at its Bonga offshore field in December 2011.
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