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1,004 S.Korean victims sue Japanese firms for wartime forced labor
2015-04-21 08:28:45| Steel - Topix.net
More than 1,000 South Korea n forced labor victims and their bereaved families filed on Tuesday the largest-ever class-action lawsuit against Japan ese"war criminal" companies, demanding about 100 billion won in damages. A total of 1,004 South Korean victims and bereaved families, who were forced to work for Japanese war munitions factories during the devastating war, sued around 60 Japanese firms, including Nippon Steel and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, on Tuesday for unpaid wages and damages for wartime hard labor.
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Looking to the Future, Organized Labor Is Banking on a New Civil Rights Movement
2015-04-15 11:27:40| Grocery - Topix.net
Many sectors of the economy that want representation from unions have large racial-minority membership, and labor is working to help them. Whole Foods Market employees and union activists protest outside a Whole Foods Market store on July 31, 2013 in Chicago.
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Electronics Industry Leads the Way in Combating Forced Labor
2015-04-08 15:37:33| Electronics - Topix.net
ALEXANDRIA, Va., , Apr. 08 /CSRwire/ - The Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition , a nonprofit coalition of leading electronics companies dedicated to supply chain responsibility, has made the eradication of forced labor a high priority in 2015 as evidenced by a series of recent actions taken to strengthen its Code of Conduct. The EICC today announced changes to its Code designed to protect workers and a membership vote to ban all recruitment fees paid by workers.
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Labor group Sugarcane Act
2015-04-08 09:20:33| Sugar Industry News
A labor group said it doubts that the Sugarcane Industry Development Act will answer the problems of Negros Occidental's major industry.
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Darden says seafood free of slave labor
2015-04-05 19:51:49| Food - Topix.net
Olive Garden: Founded in 1982 by a unit of General Mills Inc. General Mills spun off its restaurant holdings as Darden Restaurants in 1995. Olive Garden: Founded in 1982 by a unit of General Mills Inc. General Mills spun off its restaurant holdings as Darden Restaurants in 1995.
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