May 13, 2008
Tuesday

Workplace Issues

Workplace Issues refers to a variety of issues employees and employers face while at work, including labor relations, personal and professional conflict issues, health and safety, and discrimination and harassment.
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Special Delivery: UPS Moving Ancient Terra Cotta Army (press release)

Organization:
UPS

UPS 747-400 Air Freighter, Trucks Deliver Terra Cotta Warriors from Shanghai to Four U.S. Museums

Interview with a Columbian flower worker (video)

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This interview was done in Colombia by the US Labor Education in the Americas Project. Stella is a flower worker at a Dole plantation just outside of Bogota.
Organization:
International Labor Rights Forum

Group Celebrates Mother’s Day at Home by Supporting Working Moms Abroad (activism)

The International Labor Rights Forum is hosting the Mother’s Day Roses Raffle to offer people throughout the United States a chance to send a special gift to a loved one while also advancing the rights of women in the Latin American rose industry.

There are 40,000 flower workers in Ecuador and over 100,000 in Colombia, working to grow, harvest, and package the roses and carnations sold in the United States. More than half of them are women who commonly face labor rights violations including sexual harassment, pesticide-related illnesses, and forced pregnancy testing. Proceeds from the raffle will support the legal, health and safety, and advocacy work done through ILRF's Fairness in Flowers Campaign.

For more information, please click here.
The International Labor Rights Forum is hosting the Mother’s Day Roses Raffle to offer people throughout the United States a chance to send a special gift to a loved one while also advancing the rights of women in the Latin American rose industry.
Organization:
International Labor Rights Forum

ChoicePoint(R) Nonprofit Audit Finds Five Percent of Applicants Have Prior Criminal Convictions (press release)

Organization:
ChoicePoint

Nonprofits Must Be Vigilant on Background Screening for Potential Employees and Volunteers

ZEN WORKPLACE - How to Use Feng Shui to Reduce Office Stress. (research)

  1. So what’s a cutting-edge, multi-billion dollar company doing with an ancient Chinese science? Going back to the wisdom of the ages as it enlists the assistance of a highly credentialed, leading Feng Shui Master and skilled Italian architect, Dr. Simona Mainini, on how to re-design the offices of eighteen European countries to remedy the high levels of stress and rage.
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Simona F. Mainini, Dr. Arch. & Feng Shui Master
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