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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 ::
Workers Get Fewer Hours, Deepening the Downturn - By PETER S. GOODMAN, New York Times
From March 2007 to March of this year, the average workweek reported in the private sector slipped slightly to 33.8 hours, from 33.9 hours, while overtime for manufacturing workers fell by a larger margin.
At the end of last month, more than 4.9 million people were working part time either because they could not find full-time jobs or because their companies had cut hours in the face of slack business, according to a Labor Department survey. That represented an increase of 400,000 since November.
And on Wednesday, the government reported that average earnings slipped in March after accounting for the rising costs of food and fuel — the sixth consecutive month that pay failed to keep pace with inflation.------------------------------------------- posted 6:31 AM :: reference link ::
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