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1 hr ago | Detroit News

Labor Voices: GOP's agenda sells Michiganians short

It is time for Michiganians to have a real conversation about both value and values.

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Related Topix: Michigan, Family, Kids, Michigan Government, Opinion

6 hrs ago | YourObserver

East County-182 Manatee teachers lose jobs

The savings plan also includes multiple property sales, outsourcing legal and audit services and closing the old Manatee Technical Institute campus on 34th Street West.

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Related Topix: Manatee County, FL

Tue May 21, 2013

Film Threat

a Place at the Table

Directed by Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush Produced by Julie Goldman Starring Jeff Bridges, Raj Patel and Marion Nestle Magnolia Pictures Let's face it: The documentary is the Debbie Downer of film forms.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science

Seattle Times

Feds halt data cull for State Dept terror report

The federal government has given the job of compiling statistics used by the State Department to analyze trends in global terrorism to an academic group, a move that may complicate accurate unclassified assessments of patterns of terrorist activity for years to come.

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Related Topix: 2012 Presidential Election, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama

The Northwestern in Oshkosh

Tech firms would skirt hiring restrictions under deal

Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, has reached a compromise with Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York on an amendment that would change the immigration bill to help large technology firms.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, US Politics, Orrin Hatch, US News, US Senate, Republican, Senator Chuck Schumer

The Village Voice

3 NYU Researchers Charged with Giving Away Secrets to China

Forget self-deportation: It appears the feds have stumbled across a case of secret self-outsourcing at New York University.

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Related Topix: New York University

Business Journal

Outsourcing at FedEx could take toll on Memphis footprint

Memphis-based FedEx Corp. is looking to outsource a significant portion of its information technology work in an effort to boost profits.

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Related Topix: Transportation, Air Courier, FedEx

Reuters

IT firm iGate sacks CEO after sexual harassment probe

Outsourcing company iGate Corp said it had sacked its Chief Executive Phaneesh Murthy for not disclosing a relationship with a subordinate after investigating one of India's best-known IT executives for sexual harassment.

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Related Topix: iGATE, Computers, IT Services, Software

Spend Matters

Sourcing Managed Services: Not Consulting, Not Outsourcing

I recently connected with an old FreeMarkets colleague who is running a managed services business in the sourcing services area.

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Related Topix: FreeMarkets, Computers, Software

Drug Researcher

ADC Bio Expands Lab Services in Response to Demand

ADC Biotechnology says demand for antibody drug conjugates services has skyrocketed as it receives a second financial boost to development in four months.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Science / Technology, Food and Drug Administration

Mon May 20, 2013

Computer Weekly

Union slams Aviva's offshore plan

Union Unite has accused Aviva of betraying UK workers after it emerged that 600 of its 2,000 job cuts are actually being relocated in India.

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Computer Weekly

Metropolitan Police weighs up outsourcing options

The Metropolitan Police Service is engaging with the outsourcing industry as it targets annual government-prompted savings of A 500m from its A 3.6bn budget.

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The Daily Caller

Hyatt workers union protests Pritzker Commerce nomination

Penny Pritzker, President Barack Obama's nominee to head the Commerce Department , is getting more heat from the left than from the right, as a prominent hotel workers union plans to protest her nomination this week.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Barack Obama, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Hyatt Hotels, Environmental Law, Law, Conservative Political News

Mail & Guardian

Mercedes-Benz workers strike over outsourcing plans

Thousands of workers at the Mercedes-Benz plant in East London have embarked on a strike for the first time in 24 years, reports the Daily Dispatch.

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CBC News

Canadian on EI shut out amid foreign worker influx

A jobless Canadian IT professional who is collecting employment insurance is upset because he now suspects several recent jobs he applied for went to temporary foreign workers.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News,

Times-series.co.uk

Capita named as preferred bidder for One Barnet contract

Anti-outsourcing campaigner Maria Nash brought a judicial review over a lack of consultation on the One Barnet scheme earlier this year Core council functions including environmental health and trading standards will be taken over by private firm Capita, it was announced today.

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ComputerWorld

Profitable future for data centre services market: report

The Australian data centre services market is forecast to hit revenues of over $1.5 billion by 2019 according to a new report by Frost & Sullivan.

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Related Topix: Consulting, Frost and Sullivan, Science, Computer Science, Cloud Computing, Science / Technology

Sun May 19, 2013

Hillsboro Reporter

Outsourcing HISD Food Service Studied

Whether to outsource food services for the Hillsboro Independent School District was discussed at the Monday, May 13, meeting of the board of trustees.

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Related Topix: Hillsboro, TX

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Senate Considers Immigration Reform

This article will explore some of the challenges and opportunities which immigration reform will present if it is ever implemented as envisioned by the United States Congress in S744 and various amendments. One of the most perplexing questions politicians on both sides of the aisle face on immigration reform is when and under what circumstances the border with Mexico can be made secure.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform

Northwest Florida Daily News

Four specialized mechanics save Air Force millions

In the shop at the Air Force Repair Enhancement Program, four mechanics work each day to fix equipment that others can't or won't. "Normally they throw these things away and nobody fixes them," Staff Sgt.

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Related Topix: Hurlburt Field, US Military, US Air Force, US News

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