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Anthony Albanese makes huge call on WFH as figures reveal how much workers are losing ...

The Daily Mail 23 Mar 2025
More than 36,000 public servants will be axed if the opposition takes power while Labor vows to keep work-from-home entitlements, saying it saves people $5,000. The Liberals have attacked Labor for ...
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Africa’s plunder by IMF and World Bank ‘structural adjustments’

Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder 23 Mar 2025
During the 1980s and 1990s, the IMF and World Bank ...
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'Deceived' Venezuelans protest US deportations to El Salvador

The Philadelphia Inquirer 23 Mar 2025
Over 200 Venezuelans were flown from the United States on March 16 to a maximum security prison and forced labor camp in El Salvador, ...
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The future happens in Oakland first. That’s a cautionary tale for global cities

The Observer 23 Mar 2025
There’s an enormous labor force that’s put into place to do the assembly and eventually manufacture the electronics that make Silicon Valley into Silicon Valley ... This is more like one of those tidal forces.
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Fixing a flawed levy on the banks could leave Australia’s budget billions of dollars better off

The Observer 23 Mar 2025
The budget would be billions of dollars better off every year if Australia’s biggest banks were forced to pay taxpayers for an unspoken guarantee that taxpayers will bail them out in a crisis.
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Bumble Bee sued by deep-sea crew who say they were forced into ‘fishing boat slavery’

CNN 22 Mar 2025
It alleges the tuna giant “knowingly benefitted” from forced labor, debt bondage and other forms of abuse in its supply chain ... It makes it very easy to engage in forced labor and trafficking,” Fryszman said ... “Forced labor is not a one off.
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White couple who forced adopted black children to work as ‘slaves’ sentenced to hundreds of ...

New York Post 22 Mar 2025
Jeanne Kay Whitefeather received up to 215 years in prison and her husband, Donald Lantz, will serve up to 160 years — the maximum sentence — after the pair were convicted of forced labor, human trafficking and child abuse and neglect in January.
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The story of a teenage slave who became a saint

The Manila Times 22 Mar 2025
An undetermined number of children are forced into exploitative labor operations." ... Child sexual exploitation — online and off — is the most dangerous forced labor of all ... and three for forced labor.
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Top diplomats of Korea, Japan hold bilateral talks

Korea Times 22 Mar 2025
Bilateral relations between Seoul and Tokyo have warmed significantly since President Yoon Suk Yeol announced in March 2023 that Korea will compensate forced labor victims on its own without contributions from Japan.
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New report finds project labor agreements lower costs, boost competition in Illinois

Journal Gazette 22 Mar 2025
Non-union industry groups and conservative organizations have long criticized the practice of governments using, encouraging or mandating PLAs, arguing that forcing projects to use union labor makes them slower and more expensive.
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Sanders, AOC draw biggest crowd of their careers at rally in Denver

Alternet 22 Mar 2025
While its dangerous that "establishment liberals" are yielding to Trump, he wrote, "the silver lining is that this has enabled anti-corporate forces such as labor unions and AOC-Bernie to set the tenor of Resistance 2.0.".
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Luxembourg: Staff Concluding Statement of the 2025 Article IV Mission

International Monetary Fund 22 Mar 2025
Luxembourg’s growth in past decades was driven by a rapidly expanding labor force, mainly immigrants and cross-border workers, while labor productivity growth has lagged peers ... Greater labor market flexibility is essential for resilience.
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Reshoring: A boon for U.S. real estate and local economies

Press Telegram 22 Mar 2025
Cheap labor, fewer regulations and ... Supply chain disruptions during the pandemic, geopolitical tensions with China and rising overseas labor costs have forced companies to rethink their strategies.
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Shackles, shock troops, windowless cells: How bad is Trump's favorite Salvadoran prison?

Usatoday 22 Mar 2025
“I strongly, strongly fear that they’re already being tortured, being mistreated, being screamed at, being forced to perform forced labor, being poorly fed or underfed,” said Adam Isacson, director of ...
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America is on the cusp of irreversible terror — sleepwalking into danger

Raw Story 22 Mar 2025
Trump used the Alien Enemies Act, a rarely invoked wartime law from 1798, to send Venezuelan immigrants to a forced labor prison in El Salvador ... Speak up peacefully and forcefully, but speak up now.

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