International Business News - Worker http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif A 52-year-old man who was injured while working at a Disney resort has died, a company spokeswoman said. John Swearingen, of Davenport, died Thursday night in a hospital, Disney spokeswoman Zoraya Suarez said. Swearingen was injured June 13 while operating a construction lift at Disney's All-Star Resort. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080627/disney-worker-dies-days-after-injury-at-resort.htm Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:27:08 EDT The Louisiana Legislature gave final passage Monday to Gov. Bobby Jindal's plan to revamp the state labor department and make it the coordinating agency for a fragmented system of worker-training programs and services around Louisiana. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080623/la-legislature-oks-plan-to-overhaul-labor-agency.htm Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:24:22 EDT Fewer college students are pursuing computer-related degrees at a time when demand is increasing and thousands of baby boomers are retiring from technical jobs. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080623/fewer-students-pursue-computer-related-degrees.htm Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:38:58 EDT Gov. Bobby Jindal's plan to make the state labor department the coordinating agency for worker training programs around Louisiana neared final passage Friday with a unanimous vote from the state Senate. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080620/la-labor-department-restructuring-nears-passage.htm Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:47:00 EDT The state's highest court has upheld the right of construction workers to sue contractors for federally funded work on public housing projects in New York. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080605/ny-court-upholds-right-to-suein-wage-disputes.htm Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:05:22 EDT The shortage of workers at Ted Blair's three hotels near Yellowstone National Park is so severe that Blair himself might soon be busing tables and stripping beds. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/47547-immigration-worker-shortage.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080516/hotels-seek-workers-on-eve-of-summer-travel-season.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080516/hotels-seek-workers-on-eve-of-summer-travel-season.htm Fri, 16 May 2008 14:20:41 EDT The World Food Program says one of its workers has been shot and killed by unidentified gunmen this week in northwestern Kenya. The U.N. group says Silence Chirara is the first of its aid workers to be killed in the town of Lokichoggio. Chirara was the agency's logistics coordinator for Southern Sudan. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080509/world-food-program-says-one-of-its-officials-slain-in-kenya.htm Fri, 09 May 2008 12:17:01 EDT Weary of waiting for Congress to overhaul the nation's immigration laws, the United Farm Workers hopes to recruit Mexican laborers to pick crops on U.S. farms. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/42768-farm-scene-guest-workers.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080429/union-and-states-try-recruiting-farm-workers-from-mexico.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080429/union-and-states-try-recruiting-farm-workers-from-mexico.htm Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:55:07 EDT Members of a state workers' union lobbied Tuesday for better pay and benefits, but were told their cause has been hurt by huge tax cuts in recent years. Five Democratic lawmakers told CWA-Oklahoma ... http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080409/okla-officials-tax-cuts-cost-workers.htm Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:18:45 EDT A Massey Energy employee has been killed in a work-related accident. Massey spokesman Jeff Gillenwater says the man, who worked for the company's Mass Transport, died Thursday while trying to free a tractor-trailer stuck at a railroad crossing near Stollings in Logan County. Gillenwater says the company is trying to determine what happened. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080327/massey-miner-dies-in-w-va-accident.htm Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:57:13 EDT Oil-rich Gulf nations, already facing labor protests, are getting new pressure from India, which wants them to pay minimum wages for unskilled workers. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/36644-gulf-india-worker-rights.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080327/india-pushes-for-worker-rights-in-gulf.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080327/india-pushes-for-worker-rights-in-gulf.htm Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:14:56 EDT An Amtrak train struck and killed a person a half-mile away from a New Hampshire station on Friday night, a day after another train accident killed a track worker in Providence. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080315/1-killed-in-train-accident-in-n-h.htm Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:04:07 EDT An Amtrak spokesman says an express train has struck and killed a worker inspecting the tracks in Rhode Island. Spokesman Cliff Cole says two other workers were seriously injured when they were hit by a northbound train in downtown Providence on Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080313/train-kills-track-inspector-in-r-i.htm Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:55:10 EDT A doom-and-gloom economic outlook persuaded a legislative committee Friday to scale back Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter's $78 million state employee pay-raise package. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080215/idaho-lawmakers-trim-worker-pay-plan.htm Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:31:55 EST A black former hotel worker who claims his white supervisor put a noose around his neck at an event on one of the country's oldest plantations said Friday he was fired when he complained about it. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080208/black-worker-says-boss-put-noose-on-him.htm Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:28:42 EST