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U.S. / NEWS Tue May 20, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

SF Gate -- A mechanical failure or gas likely triggered an explosion that rocked a waterfront hotel under construction, damaging four floors and injuring 14 workers, five critically, a fire official said. The blast occurred around 2 p.m. Monday, ripping off part.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Oct 4, 2007 @ 9:32am neoform

Yahoo News -- Wal-Mart workers in Pennsylvania who previously won a $78.5 million class-action award for working off the clock will share an additional $62.3 million in damages, a judge ruled Wednesday. About 125,000 people will receive $500 each in damages under a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Aug 30, 2007 @ 8:12am neoform

SF Gate -- Labor unions went to court Wednesday to block Bush administration rules designed to force employers to fire illegal workers, saying the regulations will sweep up innocent immigrants and U.S. citizens because of flaws in government record-keeping. The r.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Aug 27, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

SF Gate -- Jorge S., an East Bay grocery store clerk, worries about his family's future if the Bush administration follows through with its declaration this month to crack down on employers who fail to verify the legal status of their workers. "Everyone at the st.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Aug 22, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- In the past month, city workers have cleared out 167 camps in Golden Gate Park and have provided services as small as hot showers and as big as housing to 164 homeless people, Newsom administration officials say. And it's not just homeless people recei.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Aug 12, 2007 @ 12:28pm neoform

CNN -- Rescue workers trying to reach six men trapped in Utah's Crandall Canyon mine found survivable space Saturday after punching a second, wider hole into a cavity where the workers are believed to be trapped and lowering a camera, a federal official said. Bu.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jul 23, 2007 @ 4:24am neoform

Washington Post -- As part of their campaign to soothe an anxious middle class, congressional Democrats are preparing legislation that would significantly expand federal aid to the most obvious victims of the global economy: workers whose jobs move offshore or are lost to f.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jul 20, 2007 @ 11:31am neoform

FOX News -- New Yorkers are still questioning their air's safety after a steam pipe eruption spewed dirt and debris into the sky over midtown. Many remember the cover-up after the last major pipe rupture and the illnesses ground zero workers faced years after officia.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jul 20, 2007 @ 11:26am neoform

Washington Post -- The Federal Emergency Management Agency since early 2006 has suppressed warnings from its own field workers about health problems experienced by hurricane victims living in government-provided trailers with levels of a toxic chemical 75 times the recommen.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 24, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

Washington Post -- It's a perk of federal employment: a free monthly subsidy that pays for commutes on public transportation. But scores of workers have been taking the government for a ride, selling their benefits on the Internet and pocketing millions in cash each year... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Mar 12, 2007 @ 7:54pm neoform

FOX News -- Officials reported all workers were accounted for and safe after a gas pipeline ruptured and exploded, touching off a spectacular super-heated inferno that ignited several small brush fires and cut power to about 30,000 people in the surrounding area... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jan 25, 2007 @ 9:55am neoform

Houston Chronicle -- Two election workers were convicted Wednesday of rigging a recount of the 2004 presidential election to avoid a more thorough review in Ohio's most populous county... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Dec 16, 2006 @ 2:31am neoform

NPR -- A fence-building company in Southern California agrees to pay nearly $5 million in fines for hiring illegal immigrants. Two executives from the company may also serve jail time. The Golden State Fence Company's work includes some of the border fence betw.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Nov 7, 2006 @ 2:15pm mrmdc

CNN -- Programming errors and inexperience dealing with electronic voting machines frustrated poll workers in hundreds of precincts early Tuesday, delaying voters in Indiana, Ohio and Florida and leaving some with little choice but to use paper ballots instead... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Nov 12, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- The city of San Francisco offered 150 specially trained municipal workers to help clean up beaches and save birds - but essentially got shrugged off by the Coast Guard, according to the city's acting mayor and the president of the Board of Supervisors... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Oct 16, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- As Muni buses lumbered by and commuters rushed to work, four San Francisco city workers spent Monday morning striking up conversations with homeless people downtown in the hopes of persuading them to accept help getting off the streets. Like any good s.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Oct 4, 2007 @ 8:24am neoform

MSNBC -- A federal judge on Wednesday denied a request by more than two dozen workers at one of NASA's research labs to block a Bush administration directive requiring background checks and access to personal information. A group of 28 employees at the Jet Prop.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Oct 3, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

MSNBC -- A chemical fire ignited at a hydroelectric plant outside this mountain town and five workers who were trapped in an empty water tunnel there were found dead, authorities said Tuesday. Crews went in from the bottom of the tunnel to put out the fire and.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Oct 3, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

USA Today -- A chemical fire ignited at a hydroelectric plant outside this mountain town and five workers who were trapped in an empty water tunnel there were found dead, authorities said Tuesday. Crews went in from the bottom of the tunnel to put out the fire and.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Aug 19, 2007 @ 1:50pm neoform

USA Today -- Members of a union representing about 2,000 of Delphi Corp.'s hourly workers voted to ratify a new four-year contract with the auto parts supplier, the union said. Seventy-five percent of International Union of Electronic Workers-Communications Workers.. Read More