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A July 2010 check for J-1 visa worker Kateryna Totskaya shows zero pay for the pay period. Middlemen commonly dock students' pay so heavily for lodging, transportation and other necessities that the wages work out to $1 an hour or less. (Associated Press)
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Sanju Catalano, left, a recruiter with 3M Communications speaks with job seeker Darrin Baker about his resume during a career expo in Las Colinas, Texas, Monday, Nov. 14, 2011. Economists forecast that employers added a net 125,000 jobs in November, an improvement from October's gain of 80,000. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
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"Top Gear" host Jeremy Clarkson has one union calling for his job after the BBC personality said Wednesday that striking public-sector workers should be shot. (Associated Press)
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Boeing employees work in the 787 Dreamliner aft-body assembly building in June in Charleston, S.C. It's not immediately clear how a National Labor Relations Board dispute involving the South Carolina plant will be affected by aerospace giant Boeing reaching a tentative labor contract with the Machinists union this week. (Jeremy Lock/Special to The Washington Times)
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National Labor Relations Board Acting General Counsel Lafe Solomon on Wednesday called a tentative collective-bargaining pact between aerospace giant Boeing and the Machinists union "a very significant and hopeful development." (Associated Press)
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"It's very clear to me that we're seeing the rights of employers and employees under attack," said Rep. John Kline, Minnesota Republican. (Associated Press)
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Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican, says a Republican president "could absolutely gut the vast majority" of the health care law by executive order. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** An Amazon.com employee grabs boxes to load onto a truck at the company's Fernley, Nev., warehouse. (Associated Press)
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Larisa Haworth (second from right) and Sue Rolny (right) talk Nov. 10, 2011, with a perspective employer in Independence, Ohio. (Associated Press)
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Advocates of raising the age for tobacco purchases point to a federal survey showing that more than 80 percent of adult smokers had their first cigarette before age 18 and almost 95 said they started smoking before age 21. (Associated Press/File)
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Detroit Mayor Dave Bing discusses the city's financial woes on Wednesday. Mr. Bing urged municipal unions to accept wage cuts and Michigan leaders to pay the city millions stemming from a decade-old tax agreement, saying Detroit needs the money to avoid a takeover. (Associated Press)
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"We could use that. There are low wages, but I live in Southeast and sometimes you have to start at the bottom and work to the top. And it will offer jobs." Tony Britt, 45, Southeast, unemployed for two weeks
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"I do know it's important to people to have fresh produce at reasonable prices, but it's not enough to have workers that need health benefits. I'm hoping the D.C. government is willing to work to get Wal-mart to do the right thing." Andrea Walling, 67, Arlington, retired
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Tonya Crenshaw, left, and Kendrick Haraalson fill out applications at a job fair Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011, in Brookpark, Ohio. The number of people seeking unemployment benefits dipped slightly last week, though not by enough to suggest that hiring is picking up. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
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Work continues on a sky-light roof for the entrance to the Wiehle Avenue Metrorail Station in Reston, the end of the line for Phase 1 of the Silver Line extension to Washington Dulles International Airport. A pact between the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority and Virginia for Phase 2 allows nonunion workers to be hired for the project. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)
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Anthony Hardwick, a part-time worker at a Target store in Nebraska, is petitioning against a planned midnight Black Friday opening of Target stores. (Associated Press)
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Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton addresses a crowd of iron workers and painters regarding the American Jobs Act under the Frederick Douglas Memorial Bridge in Southeast Washington on Nov. 16, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley speaks about security in the post-9/11 America in the Stamp Student Union at the University of Maryland in College Park, Md. on Oct. 11, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/ The Washington Times)
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**FILE** An employee works May 31, 2009, at the Tawke oil fields in the semiautonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq. (Associated Press)
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National Basketball Association Players Association president Derek Fisher, center, speaks alongside Maurice Evans, left, and Billy Hunter, right, during a news conference after a marathon meeting with owners, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011, in New York. Although no agreements have been reached, the two sides will meet again Thursday at noon in an effort to save what remains of the season after a protracted labor dispute engulfed the league. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
