Daily Archives: February 22, 2013

SNC-Lavalin Coruption Stories Continue…..

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Wed Feb 22nd 2013

The Globe & Mail

http://m.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/snc-lavalin-in-bangladesh-world-bank-sees-conspiracy/article8963225/?service=mobile

Wednesday Feb 27th 2013

Reuters

http://ca.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idCABRE91Q19Z20130227

Feb 27th 2013

The Montreal Gazette

http://www.montrealgazette.com/they+sought+UPAC+linked+MUHC+contract/8023796/story.html

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Tweet from Lansing StateJournal (@LSJNews)

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Lansing StateJournal (@LSJNews) tweeted at 11:20 AM on Wed, Feb 20, 2013:
More lawsuits over Michigan’s brand-new #righttowork laws http://t.co/DiJqyb8L #milabor #RTW
(https://twitter.com/LSJNews/status/304264238376054785)

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Talk in the news about “Work Sharing” piece from Upjohn Research 1981.

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The following text is an excerpt from the Upjohn paper:-

While efforts to gain more free time have been a concern of labor movements dating back to the 18th century, the notion of reducing work time in order to share employment made its most obvious appearance in 1887 when Samuel Gompers, the President of the American Federation of Labor, declared that,

‘ ‘As long as we have one person seeking work who cannot find it, the hours of work are too long.”

http://research.upjohn.org/up_bookchapters/148/

Canada Action Plan (something new?)

http://actionplan.gc.ca/en/initiative/extending-work-sharing-program

Work-sharing bill would diminish union power

http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/02/20/wisconsin-again-work-sharing-bill-would-diminish-union-power/