JEFFREY BROWN: And we head back to Chicago and the national spotlight focused on a teachers strike in the nation's third largest school system. Chicago teachers walked the picket lines for a second day as contract talks resumed. The union spokeswoman

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Safety Is a Concern in Turkey's Construction Boom 土耳其的建设热潮引发安全担忧 Ten years ago, the Turkish capital of Istanbul had no extremely tall buildings called skyscrapers. Today, Istanbul is suddenly the skyscraper capital of Euro

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Labor Unions for the New Century 新世纪的劳工组织 A steady decline in the power of labor unions in the United States and European has led to some speculation that collective organizing of work

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PEOPLE IN AMERICA - Five Labor Leaders By Linda Burchill Broadcast: Sunday, September 05, 2004 (MUSIC) ANNCR: Welcome to People in America in VOA Special English. At the beginning of the twentieth cen

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Hello to you, Im Creshon Saunders at the CNN.com newsroom in Atlanta. Here is a look whats happening NOW IN THE NEWS. Three more banks just went under. Thats a total of 20, so far this year alone. The first Citibank in Georgia couldnt find a buyer.

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1. UK Prime Minister, David Cameron proposed new measures that would give British Police the power to seize the passports of Britons suspected of travelling abroad to fight with terrorist troops. The plans to widen the Britons anti-terror laws are li

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Passage One 26. A. Banks, government agencies and credit unions. B. Banks, deposit unions and money market funds. C. Banks, savings-and-loans and deposit unions. D. Banks, savings-and-loans and credit unions. 30. A. Teachers working in the same city.

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MEGAN THOMPSON: Sisters Beatriz and Elizabeth Vergara attend public high school in a low-income, mostly Hispanic section of northern Los Angeles. The girls are aiming for college, and would be the first in the family with higher degrees. But the Verg

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JEFFREY BROWN: And now two people who have followed these events closely. Linda Chavez is chairwoman of the Center for Equal Opportunity, a conservative think tank, and author of Betrayal: How Union Bosses Shake Down Their Members and Corrupt America

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ECONOMICS REPORT - As Boomers Age, Times Change in the U.S. Labor MarketBy Mario Ritter Broadcast: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 16:00:00 UTC I'm Mario Ritter with the VOA Special English Economics Report. The olde

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THE MAKING OF A NATION - February 28, 2002: Election of 1936 By David Jarmul THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a program in Special English by the Voice of America. (Theme) Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal polic

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IN THE NEWS - Bush Supports Constitutional Ban on Gay Marriage By Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: Saturday, February 28, 2004 This is Steve Ember with In the News, in VOA Special English. President Bush this

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THIS IS AMERICA - The American Labor Movement: Past, Present and Wal-Mart By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: Monday, September 05, 2005 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English.

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By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 11 September 2006 Federal workers in Nigerian are bracing themselves for mass layoffs following a weekend announcement that some 15,000 workers are to be let go this month. Union officials are reacting angrily to the plan a

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Shanghai has launched pilot childcare services in a number of workplaces to encourage more families to have a second child, local authorities said last Tuesday. 上海相关部门上周二表示,为鼓励更多家庭生育二孩,上海已在一些工

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There may be some disruption to bus services in Auckland tomorrow as NZ Bus intends to lock out bus drivers. This is in response to a strike that the unions had organised. The unions want pay increases for their drivers who currently earn between $14

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Greek unions have started a series of strikes and protests to show their resistance to the new and wide-reaching austerity measures up for a vote in parliament on Thursday. Unions representing job sectors ranging from government workers to sailors an

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They're planning a strike that will paralyze the government to force President Yar'Adua to hand over power to the Vice President. Labor officials say it appears they are the last hope, according to VOA reporter Chinedu Offor, who is on travel in Imo

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INDIANA, like many manufacturing states in the Midwest, has long felt the pain of seeing jobs go overseas. In his seven years as Republican governor, Mitch Daniels's response has been to offer a strong diet of pro-business legislation. In the past fe

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Business 商业报道 Trade unions in America 美国工会组织 Chattanooga shoo-shoo 嘘~查特奴加 The union movement misses a big opportunity to halt its decline 汽车工会运动丢失阻止汽车行业衰落的大机会 VOLKSWAGEN'S factory

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