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Top corporate CEOs making annual pilgrimage to Microsoft
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| Keep your eyes open for some celebrity CEO
| sightings in the Seattle region over the
| next few days. Executives coming to town
| include IAC's Barry Diller, Walmart
| Chairman Rob Walton, JP Morgan Chase CEO
| Jamie Dimon, and Warren Buffett of
| Berkshire Hathaway, along with his
| lieutenant Charlie Munger.
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http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/05/top_corporate_ceos_making_annual_pilgrimage_to_microsoft.html
Microsoft janitors to protest during CEO Summit
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| Janitors at the Microsoft campus in
| Redmond will be protesting their working
| conditions Wednesday evening during the
| company's annual CEO Summit. But they're
| not mobilizing against Microsoft.
|
| [...]
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| In a news release, Service Employees
| International Union Local 6 explained why
| its workers have mobilized two other times
| since November:
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| SBM Site Services has decreased their
| workforce since winning the janitorial
| contract for the Microsoft Campus in
| Redmond a little over a year ago.
| Layoffs have led to unmanageable
| workload increases for the janitors
| that clean the over 100 buildings at
| the Redmond campus.
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| While Microsoft is one of the
| wealthiest corporations in the world
| and has invested incredible resources
| into local and global communities, SBM
| Site Services workers at the campus
| have faced unsafe and unmanageable
| working conditions.
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| As Microsoft's prepares for their
| annual Global CEO Summit in Redmond,
| janitors at the Microsoft campus are
| mobilizing to send a strong message to
| their employer SBM Site Services: Stop
| the greed, stop the layoffs, and
| support reasonable working conditions
| for janitors.
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http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/206386.asp?from=blog_last3
Teenage Microsoft Sweatshop
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| Over the course of a three-year
| investigation of the KYE factory in
| Dongguan, China, unprecedented photos were
| smuggled out of the factory of exhausted
| teenagers, seen slumping over asleep on
| their assembly line during break time.
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| âWe are like prisonersâ We do not have a
| life. Only work." according to one teenage
| worker making products for Microsoft.
|
| KYE recruits hundreds (up to 1,000) âwork-
| studyâ students 16 and 17 years of age,
| who work 15-hour shifts, six and seven
| days a week making webcams, mice and other
| computer peripherals. Some of the workers
| appear to be just 14 or 15 years old. A
| typical shift is from 7:45 a.m. to 10:55
| p.m. Most of the students work for three
| months, but some stay longer.
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http://wafreepress.org/article/100409work-nationallabor.shtml
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