Workers protesting plant closing hold 2 bosses

Workers at a French subsidiary of the American company Molex detained two bosses on Monday to protest plans to close the plant in southeast France, officials and a union representative said.

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French workers release 4 managers in factory

French workers on Wednesday released four managers they had held captive overnight at a British-run factory following a labor dispute over the plant's closure, officials said.

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Your Career: Best columns of 2008

Believe it or not, this year’s most popular "Your Career" columns weren’t all about the economy.

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How to make your job layoff-resistant

Thomas, a 60-year old project manager for a construction company, knows there’s a possibility for layoffs at his firm because of the sagging housing market. And Brandon, a customer service representative for a phone company in Oregon that’s about to be bought out by a telecommunication’s giant, fears his days may be numbered.

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Study: 2 of 5 Bosses Don't Keep Word

For most people, it's back to work Tuesday after a holiday weekend with family and friends. And for many, a new study shows, it will be under a bad boss. Nearly two of five bosses don't keep their word and more than a fourth bad mouth those they supervise to co-workers, the Florida State University study shows.

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- A mail carrier accused of assaulting her bosses on the job says a heavy workload and a lot of pressure to deliver pushed her to the edge. Penny Vasquez was still in her post office uniform when she was jailed, accused of shoving her bosses and knocking them down.

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German school bosses have stunned parents by planning a shooting range at their children's school just months after a teenage schoolboy slaughtered 15 classmates and teachers in a gun bloodbath.

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Italy has launched a full-throttled assault on the Naples mob, carrying out a flurry of raids and making dozens of arrests over the past month. But like an octopus regrowing its arms, the Camorra has shown a knack for replacing lost leaders and soldiering on.

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Poll: Do Men or Women Make Better Managers?

A recent MSN article suggests one gender "frequently has the edge" as managers. Participate in this poll to see if this holds true.

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We did not need an opinion poll to confirm that much of France supports workers who kidnap their bosses. This ploy, long a French speciality, has been used about five times in recent weeks by employees of firms that are laying off workers.

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Excerpt: Office worker Kimberley Swann, 16, also moaned: "It's s***. All I do is shred, holepunch and scan paper."

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They are the men still rebuilding New Orleans more than three years after Hurricane Katrina, the head-down laborers from Honduras, Mexico and Guatemala who work on the blazing hot roofs and inside the fetid homes for a wad of cash at the end of the day.

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Bosses may be an overbearing breed, but more often than not, you've got to admire their business chops. Wouldn't you love to have that same sense of competence and confidence, that ability to assess tough problems and reach smart solutions on the fly? Guess what? So would they.

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BOSSES here are far more likely to tear their hair out when their firm's reputation takes a hit than executives anywhere else in the world.

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WEST PALM BEACH, FL (WFLX) - Recent studies show the average person surfs the net at work for one to two hours for personal reasons and not for work duties.

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When the global financial crisis hit, many Wall Street bosses said they didn't know that trouble was brewing.

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Male managers act like members of the animal kingdom, particularly monkeys and chimpanzees, according to new research.

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The fight of union carpenters here against racist discrimination directed at Black and at Latino workers in the construction industry is having an impact.

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"If you apply yourself and work hard, anyone can become a millionaire." This is a popular adage in the United States.

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My boss must have already gotten a hold of this list...There are several things that mid-level managers can do to keep employees happy and there are even more things they can do to irritate the hell out of them...

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We've all heard them before. We ask a co-worker, or worse a memeber of upper management, for a straight answer and the response we get it business speak.

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Attention bosses: Your most innovative employees may be the ones with mixed emotions.

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Interesting Read!

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