December 2, 2013
Expect the "Practically Virtually Impossible"
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Inquiring minds are investigating the Fight for 15 website. Here is a snip. Stand with striking Chicago fast food and retail workers! We, hundreds of fast food and retail workers, went on strike at 30 stores in the Loop and the Magnificent Mile to demand $15 an hour and the right to form a union without retaliation.
Please consider Companies Prepare to Pass More Health Costs to Workers . Many employers are betting that the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that all Americans have health insurance starting in 2014 will bring more people into their plans who have previously opted out.
The Wall Street Journal reports On Black Friday, the Real Fight Was Online . Brick-and-mortar retailers mounted a furious defense on Black Friday to head off incursions into one of the industry’s biggest shopping days by such online rivals as Amazon.com Inc. The tactics were evident in stores and on websites as millions of holiday shoppers lined up to spend their dollars on highly touted deals
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Arnaud Montebourg, Minister of Industrial Renewal of France, has a new target in his sights, the French public procurement group UGAP . Here is some background information about UGAP.
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