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McGinn’s Whole Foods’ wages stance roils mayoral campaign
2013-07-28 21:48:23| IT Services - Topix.net
When Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn recommended rejecting a West Seattle development because its anchor tenant, Whole Foods, doesn't pay its workers enough, he upended the city's typically nonpolitical procedure to granting street vacations.
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Workplace dispute roils Foxconn supplier in China
2013-01-14 00:34:59| CNET News.com
The contract manufacturer, which makes iPhones and other consumer electronics, acknowledges a "workplace issue" at a factory run by a supplier that reportedly makes iPhone connectors and other goods. [Read more]
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United States: Gas Drilling Far From Imminent, but Debate Roils Otsego County
2013-01-07 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: If Otsego County were Hollywood, then its debate over hydraulic fracturing, the contentious method of drilling for natural gas, would be resolved as it is in the movie Promised Land, which opened here over the weekend at the Southside Mall. That is, a good-looking representative of a villainous gas company would dupe the townspeople into selling him their mineral rights, only to repent after deciding that his employer was bad and fracking, as it is known, potentially worse. And this would win him...
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