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Fukushima Workers Quit Japan Utility in Droves Over Stigma, Pay Cuts

2014-07-11 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Al Jazeera: Stigma, pay cuts and risk of radiation exposure are among the reasons why 3,000 employees have left the utility at the center of Japan's 2011 nuclear disaster. Now there's an additional factor: better-paying jobs in the feel-good solar energy industry. Engineers and other employees at TEPCO, or Tokyo Electric Power Co., were once mainstays of Japan's corporate culture, which is famous for prizing loyalty to a single company and lifetime employment with it. But the March 2011 tsunami that swamped...

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WTC cleanup workers may renew health claims: U.S. appeals court

2014-07-11 03:34:25| IT Services - Topix.net

A federal appeals court in New York has revived claims by 211 cleanup workers who sought compensation for their alleged exposure to toxic contaminants in buildings near the World Trade Center site after the Sept.

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Stigmatized nuclear workers quit Japan utility

2014-07-10 09:10:04| Energy - Topix.net

In this June 19, 2014 photo, Sean Travers, Japan president of EarthStream, poses for photos at his office in Tokyo.

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Public sector workers in mass strike

2014-07-10 08:09:59| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

More than a million public sector workers are expected to strike in a series of disputes with the government over pay, pensions and job cuts.

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Illinois Has Hired Less Then 10% of the Workers It Says It Needs to Oversee Fracturing

2014-07-10 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: More than a year after a much-lauded compromise paved the way for high-volume oil and gas extraction in Illinois, the agency in charge of overseeing the practice has hired just four of 53 new employees it says it needs as it continues working to complete rules that drillers must follow. The Department of Natural Resources has come under criticism from industry groups, lawmakers and other supporters of hydraulic fracturing who had hoped drilling could begin this summer. That scenario now appears...

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