Quoted: Yet while politicians debate how best to cover the growing ranks of the uninsured, the federal government -- by outsourcing service jobs -- quietly is adding to those numbers. "As federal employees, we get great insurance," says Dr. Rogers, a physician who believes prompt treatment might have staved off Ms. Derricotte's disability. "People who work as contractors often don't enjoy those benefits."

Under "most emailed" this morning on the PI.

Quoted: One such team, dubbed "enterprise" investigators, has permission to read the private e-mails of employees, follow them and collect video footage or photos of them. Investigators can also secretly watch employee computer screens in real time and reproduce every keystroke a worker makes, the Seattle P-I has learned.

Quoted: AT&T, the biggest U.S. phone company, and No. 2 Verizon Communications may follow General Motors in trying to shift retiree health care liabilities to a ...

Quoted: Delphi has violated the federal Americans with Disabilities Act since at least 2004 by requiring workers returning from sick leave to sign releases allowing the company to access medical information.

Nice. I hope they stick it out!

Quoted: "This is not a navigation system," Salazar said of the GPS technology. "It won’t help passengers or drivers get where they are going. It’s all about advertising." Backseat video monitors are currently designed to play commercials and movie trailers on a continuous loop.

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Quoted: However, she says that holding liberal views on gender doesn’t make men more likely to actually do more laundry. Unmarried men living with a female partner were much more likely to act on their egalitarian beliefs than married men.

Quoted: It’s not often that a union successfully blocks the impact of an anti-union National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruling. But our union, the Health Professionals and Allied Employees/AFT (HPAE), recently did just that through a combination of legal research, membership education and involvement, savvy public outreach, and coordinated bargaining among our local unions.

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Quoted: "It's about the cash," said Tina Shaw, 44, who lives in a House of Ruth women's shelter and has walked the line at various sites. "We're against low wages, but I'm here for the cash."

No wonder pilots won't work overtime. I'd be pretty pissed if I got a 40% pay cut.

Quoted: "We tried to warn the airline" it needed more pilots this month, he said. "Pilots' careers and the future of their families are tied to the fate of this airline. We didn't give up 40 percent of our pay for this to fail. We are hopeful that Northwest will succeed."