Never again will west European workers live in a world with so little competition.
The glitch affected both consumer and corporate customers and came at a particularly inopportune time: when millions of West Coast workers were logging in to their email and getting started with their day.
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Like their counterparts in the West, many workers groan about having to plod on for longer.
West moves 25 workers from wheat farming into bike making, where its comparative advantage lies, and produces 75 bikes and 25 bushels.
He's convinced his corporate sponsors, such as Pepsi Co. and Frito Lay, to deliver food every week for the next month to emergency workers in West.
However, one of the sacked workers told the West Australian that the group had not endangered safety.
Mr Bush may even owe his job to West Virginia's steel workers.
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The RMT also announced that a planned 48-hour strike from 19 December by signal workers in the West Midlands had been suspended after progress in talks over a row about rosters.
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After three United Nations workers were killed in West Timor in September, some donors threatened to hold back assistance.
The company saw most of its KDC West and all of its Beatrix workers return to work three weeks ago.
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TWU, meanwhile, knew the US Airways management team because it represented workers at both America West and US Airways, which merged in 2005.
The government in West Bengal state had earlier warned workers not to skip work during the strike and the state has remained largely unaffected by the shutdown.
But because import demand, capital flows and the need for foreign workers declined precipitously in the West, almost all developing countries are suffering.
The last really big strikes in Germany date back to 1984, when a post-war record of 5.6m days were lost in a single year, as workers throughout what was then West Germany downed tools in support of a 35-hour week.
In a flying visit on September 18th, the American defence secretary, William Cohen, warned him that Indonesia faced isolation if it did not act fast to disarm the militias in West Timor, where three United Nations workers were killed on September 6th.
The union Unite said workers at three sites in the West Midlands walked out in a dispute over pay and conditions.
Children's services in part of the West Midlands rely too much on temporary and agency workers, a council has admitted.
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The consortium, which was set up in June, employs about 68, 000 NHS workers in the whole of the South West.
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Jim D'Avila, Unite the Union's officer for the South West, added that while it was good that workers were still being paid, if things got dramatically worse "companies like Honda will not be able to pay wages".
Just as expanding the global labour force by a quarter through the addition of cheap Chinese workers helped to keep prices down in the West, so higher Chinese wages might start to export inflation.
Nea Manolada, about 260km (160 miles) west of Athens, is an area where thousands of migrant workers are employed.
Yesterday, it was a BP order for Babcock workers at Rosyth to build subsea kit bound for west of Shetland.
They are following in the footsteps of earlier generations who came in the 1960s, when so-called guest workers from the Mediterranean Basin were invited to spur West Germany's booming postwar economy.
For workers willing to move to the Midlands or the North West, Jaguar Land Rover has 1, 600 jobs on offer.
Police killed 34 striking workers at the Marikana platinum in South Africa's North West province in August, in the most deadly security force action since white rule ended in 1994.
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Moreover, the entire Northeast and West Coast is anti-right-to-work, meaning that workers employed in unionized workplaces may be required to join the union and pay dues that might go toward political causes they disagree with.
Before I begin, I want to send my deepest condolences, our thoughts and prayers to the families and the friends of the workers who lost their lives after an explosion took place in a West Virginia mine yesterday.
Three workers accused of ill-treating elderly residents at a care home in West Yorkshire have been cleared.
Workers at several ailing factories in the province of Qazvin, north-west of the capital, have been told not to return to work until further notice.
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