Low Pay and Broken Promises Greet Guest Workers
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Lawmakers are pushing to expand the U.S. guest worker program, but labor experts say workers suffer abuses.
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I am surprised that David Barnes ("Boost skills, not wage base," Readers' Forum, Sept. 20) knows of no one who stays at, or right around, minimum wage, considering that he is from Logan, where many university students are exploited for cheap labor.
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Â· Children among captives forced to work for no payÂ· Local officials accused of colluding with traffickers
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The nation's lowest-paid workers will soon find extra money in their pockets as the minimum wage rises 70 cents to $5.85 an hour today, the first increase in a decade.
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Half the world&#39;s 2.8bn workers are trapped in jobs that leave them and their families struggling to survive on less than $2 a day, with little prospect of escape from grinding
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The company says the changes are to better serve customers. Workers say they reduce already modest incomes and strain employeesÂ personal lives.
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Most employees have precious little ammunition going into a meeting to talk about their pay, but a few Web sites are trying to level the playing field.
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AMERICANS have been pouring greater and greater portions of the their salaries into health care over the past few years. And what makes most employees sick is that they are getting less and less for their money.
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Those who move from the mainland find that everything costs more and salaries are generally lower.
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They are defined as waitresses or accountants, software publishers or garbage collectors. Some pull in top dollar, some the minimum wage.
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When corporate guests ask for  something, smart hotel managers get it.
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For months, the nurses complained that they were subject to demeaning and unfair working conditions Â not what they were promised when they came to America from the Philippines in search of a better life. So they abruptly quit.
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The new immigration bill aims to revamp the guest worker program. A look at North Carolina shows what needs fixing
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One out of every four working American families earns wages so low they struggle to survive financially, according to a report due out today.
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In a country already plagued by skyrocketing sick leave costs, a new survey found that 40 percent of the population thinks it&#39;s acceptable to skip work because they feel tired or have trouble getting along with their colleagues.
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By The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Sep. 13--Some folks get satisfaction in refusing to help people who refused to help them in an hour or need.
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Thousands of workers are not being paid the national minimum wage, a survey by the TUC has found.