Tag: the-workers
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UPS air maintenance workers vote 98 percent to authorize strike
Air maintenance workers at United Parcel Service Inc have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike against the world's largest package delivery company as contract talks remained deadlocked over health-care benefits, the workers' union said on Monday. Teamsters Local 2727 said 98 percent of those who took part in a mail-in ballot voted to authorize strike…
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Brain Implant Helps ‘Locked In’ ALS Patient Communicate
ALS results in loss of ability to communicate.
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The Novartis house that Vasella built gets extreme makeover
By John Miller ZURICH (Reuters) – Signals from Swiss drugmaker Novartis that it could unload its struggling Alcon eyecare business is the latest step in dismantling former leader Dan Vasella's vision of building a European healthcare giant. Chairman Joerg Reinhardt said at the weekend that Alcon's woes have intensified soul-searching over the unit's future. “All…
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Colombia’s illegal mining linked to malaria outbreak
Colombia's widespread illegal mining is blamed for causing environmental damage and holding workers in slave-like conditions — and now is also being blamed for a malaria outbreak. Critics point to stagnant water buildups at the clandestine sites and poor sanitary conditions at the workers' camps for an increase in mosquitos spreading the disease, which has…