| Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Tamil Nadu Co-operative Milk Producers Federation workers demonstrated at Sathuvachari in Vellore on January 21 for a 14-point charter of demands. Their demands included the immediate implementation of an order issued by the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam state government in 1998 giving permanency to 100 casual workers and for promotions on a seniority basis to employees with more than 20 years service. The workers are members of the All Trade Unions Federation of the Vellore and Tiruvannamalai Districts Cooperative Milk Producers Union. Indian communication workers protest privatisation plans Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) employees demonstrated outside company offices in Tirunelveli and Tuticorin in the state of Tamil Nadu on January 21.
Hot Ticket
Once a person has been sent a letter and voted into the Hall of Fame, it would be kind of like breaking a promise." That, of course, is something Larry Craig would never do. If you missed the Boise ceremony, stay tuned: Craig wants a national audience, too. In an interview with Matt Lauer that will air on NBC Tuesday night, Craig lashed out at Mitt Romney for dumping him the day the arrest story broke: "He not only threw me under his campaign bus, he backed up and ran over me again." Apparently, there's no "I Brake for Bad Boys" bumper sticker on the Mitt Mobile. For days, Romney has been fending off charges from John McCain and Rudy Giuliani that he can't be trusted. Now Mitt's constancy is under fire from Craig, the Republicans' leading authority on saying one thing and doing another.
Hale House worker is angry she appears in Rudy Giuliani TV ad without ...
You have to get any real, nonpolitical person to sign a release or you have trouble," said veteran Democratic consultant Hank Sheinkopf, who has made ads for former President Bill Clinton and others. "Professionally, it's stupid not to do it." In this case, Hale House and Team Giuliani appear to have gone partway and then dropped the ball. Molina said she agreed - in the context of a holiday photo op - to be photographed with Giuliani when he came to the home in 2005, as did everyone else in the room. Without asking Molina or others in the photo - including the children's legal guardians - Hale House later gave Team Giuliani permission to use the picture on its Web site. The campaign then went ahead on its own and put it in the TV ad. "Apparently [the campaign] operated on the belief that having received permission to post the picture on its Web site, that that permitted them to use the picture in the ad," said Hale House board Chairman Zachary Carter.
Lieberman Rules Out Running With McCain
Sen. Joe Lieberman, an independent who nearly won the vice presidency as a Democrat in 2000, says there's no way he'll be Republican Sen. John McCain's running mate should McCain become the party's presidential nominee. "No, I'd tell him, 'Thanks, John, I've been there, I've done that. You can find much better,'" Lieberman told The Associated Press during an interview Tuesday in his Senate office. "I'm not seeking anything else." The Connecticut senator said he was unequivocally ruling out sharing the GOP ticket with McCain. Lieberman's endorsement of McCain in December and the campaigning he since has done in states such as New Hampshire, Michigan, South Carolina and Florida have stoked speculation that the Arizona senator might choose Lieberman as his running mate.
Explaining the Accreditation Debate
As a federal panel negotiating possible new regulations on higher education accreditation ended its (seemingly endless) three-day meeting at a suburban Washington hotel Wednesday, it appeared to have accomplished little. The negotiators reached agreement on just 2 of the 12 issues on their agenda. And the nearly 20 hours of discussion and debate was often mind-numbingly heavy on the minutiae of accreditation, so "in the weeds" that it was not uncommon to see the hardy lobbyists and other interested parties in the cheap seats nod off now and then, when they weren’t distractedly tap-tap-tapping on their Blackberrys. .
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