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Protesters seek federal help to halt pipeline in Iowa
2016-09-14 18:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Quad-City Times: Opponents of an underground oil pipeline being constructed in Iowa delivered petitions to U.S. Department of Justice officials Wednesday bearing 33,000 signatures of people wanting President Barack Obama and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to deny pending permits and halt the project. "Make no mistake, this is far from over. We will stop this pipeline," Kari Carney, executive director of 1000 Friends of Iowa, told about 100 members of the Bakken Pipeline Resistance Coalition, land owners and other...
Cambodian garment unions seek $180 minimum wage
2016-09-07 17:33:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Following a weekend of talks, garment and footwear unions in Cambodia have agreed to demand US$179.60 as the monthly minimum wage for 2017.
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Women seek pay rises as much as men - with less success
2016-09-06 01:13:43| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Women ask for pay rises as often as men, but are less likely to get them, according to new research countering the idea that women are not pushy enough at work.
Hong Kong maids seek high-rise window cleaning ban
2016-09-04 17:39:27| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Domestic workers take to the streets of Hong Kong to demand a ban on them being asked to clean windows in high-rise buildings, after the death of a Filipino woman.
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Ivory Coast cocoa farmers seek gold in face of drought
2016-09-04 07:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Today: nce a cocoa planter, Ferdinand Konan Yao has joined the ranks of fellow farmers who have abandoned Ivory Coast`s top cash crop to work in clandestine gold mines buried deep in the plantations. "It hasn`t rained for more than five years and cocoa`s no longer worth anything," said Yao, sporting a cowboy hat. Ivory Coast is the world`s leading cocoa exporter but it is the prospect of striking gold that is luring diggers from neighbouring Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea. They come to seek their...
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