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SEC asked to review shareholder voting rules over JPMorgan move
ReutersThe Council of Institutional Investors, which represents managers of pensions, endowments, and foundations with more than $3 trillion of assets total, has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to review rules for shareholder voting. The council,...Tags: Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Economy, Business and Finance, Finance, Tampa
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Investor group calls on SEC to review change in JPMorgan voting
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - Pension and endowment managers on Friday called on U.S. regulators to review the rules for shareholder voting after a firm collecting ballots for JPMorgan Chase & Co cut off the bank's opponents from polling information. The...Tags: Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Economy, Business and Finance, Finance, Tampa
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Court will decide how many UC workers can strike
Patient care workers at the University of California’s medical centers plan to stage a two-day strike next week, but the number taking part will be decided Monday in Sacramento County Superior Court. A judge is expected to rule on a request for...
Tags: Strikes, Mike Feuer, Career and Workplace, Hospitals and Clinics, Healthcare Policies
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Facing walkout, UC medical centers canceling elective surgeries
SACRAMENTO — Facing a possible two-day strike next week by patient care and technical workers, the five large University of California medical centers are starting to cancel elective surgeries that had been scheduled as soon as Monday, officials...
Tags: Health Treatments, Strikes, Medical Procedures and Tests, Pension and Welfare, Career and Workplace
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Correctional Officers' Bill of Rights scrutinized after Baltimore City Detention Center scandal
kaustuv.basu@herald-mail.comThe Correctional Officers’ Bill of Rights, which was sponsored by a former Washington County senator and signed into law in 2010, is getting fresh scrutiny in the aftermath of a scandal at the Baltimore City Detention Center, where 13 female...Tags: FBI, Thomas V. Mike Miller, Prisons, Organized Crime, Police Investigations
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Baltimore has high rate of staff-inmate sex
The Baltimore City Detention Center had the nation's second-highest rate of sexual contact between jail staff and inmates, according to a U.S. Department of Justice study released less than a month after federal prosecutors accused corrections officers at...
Tags: New Year's Day, Prosecution, Jessup (Anne Arundel, Maryland), Organized Crime, Crime, Law and Justice
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Will County Board tells state lawmakers to pass a concealed carry law
Will County Board members Thursday sent a message to state lawmakers—pass a concealed carry law before it automatically becomes law. Board members voted 15-6, with three members voting "present," supporting a resolution backing a concealed carry...
Tags: Civil Rights, Frankfort, Crime, Law and Justice, Freedom of Information Act, Firearms
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Emanuel to shift retired city workers to Obamacare
Clout StreetMayor Rahm Emanuel plans to start reducing health insurance coverage next year for more than 30,000 retired city workers and begin shifting them to President Barack Obama's new federal system. The move is aimed at saving the city money and comes as...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Government, Finance, Rahm Emanuel, Health Insurance
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13 healthcare workers arrested in protest at UC regents meeting
SACRAMENTO -- Thirteen people were arrested Wednesday at the UC regents meeting during a sit-down protest by healthcare workers threatening to strike at the system's medical centers. The University of California regents left during the protest while...
Tags: Strikes, Career and Workplace, Hospitals and Clinics, Police Arrests, Labor Disputes
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Jerry Brown urges UC to stress graduating students in 4 years
SACRAMENTO — The graduation rates of UC students came under more scrutiny Wednesday as Gov. Jerry Brown urged administrators and faculty to prod more undergraduates to earn a degree in four years, not six. Brown recently proposed giving UC and Cal...
Tags: Regional Authority, Strikes, Jerry Brown, Government, Colleges and Universities
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Municipal Union Members Pack Newington Council Meeting
The Hartford CourantAbout 50 municipal union members attended Tuesday's town council meeting to demonstrate their unity in the wake of the town's decision to send their contract to arbitration, their leaders said. Dressed in green union T-shirts reading "We Make America...Tags: Career and Workplace, Arbitration, Employees, Unions, Newington
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Alleged gang leader being held in poor conditions, lawyer says
As the alleged leader of the Black Guerrilla Family gang at the Baltimore City Detention Center, federal prosecutors say, Tavon White could get access to pretty much whatever he wanted: drugs, phones, money and sex. He is now being held under more...
Tags: Prosecution, Prisons, Black Guerrilla Family, Trials, Gang Activity
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