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Amazon Reportedly Considered Spending $27,764 a Week on Consultants in Failed Staten Island Union Busting
Amazon failed to stop a historic first of its kind unionization effort at a Staten Island fulfillment centre despite documents showing it was considering spending up to $US100,000 ($138,820) per month on anti-union consultants to kill it.
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The Movement To Break Up Facebook Has Begun
Photo: Getty Privacy and anti-monopoly advocacy groups launched the Freedom from Facebook campaign this week, demanding that the US Federal Trade Commission force the social media giant to break up into four separate companies. Sensing a moment of weakness, activists hope to establish stronger privacy protections and cross-platform communication.
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The Australian Government Wants To Make Life-Saving Pap Smears Cost More
The federal government late last year proposed changes that would see bulk-billing cut for pathology and MRI services from 1 July 2016, including potentially life-saving pap smears. In response, a petition to federal health minister Susan Ley has already collected almost 150,000 signatures in only two days.
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Malcolm Turnbull’s Lengthy Response To The NBN Petition Is Pretty Harsh
No such thing as softly, softly here: Malcolm Turnbull has the political claws out. Check this backhanded response to the Change.org petition.