Topic of the Week

Hunt For Red Flags

You've aced the interview with the right combination of expertise and enthusiasm, but there is one more hurdle, the background check. You're home free, right? Hardly.

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Blog of the Week

Pearls Along the Mississippi: An Unsung Labor Hero Gets Her Due

Pearl McGill started working in the button factories as a teenager as a sort of spy for the industry, recruited by her uncle's friend to see if workers were as "shiftless and lazy" as bosses suspected. More likely, many say, was that the company wanted her to report on union organizing activities. McGill was also trying to earn money to study to be a teacher.

Though her job was to report to the button industry power brokers, young Pearl soon found herself sympathizing more with the workers. Soon she was an activist and prominent member of the Women's Trade Union League and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) helping to organize the button workers and also traveling around the heartland and the east coast to make speeches and play a key role in the famous textile workers strikes of 1912.

Thought for the Week

"A man's errors are his portals of discovery. "

–James Joyce

List of the Week

from Lancaster University and Wharton

Greenbacks: US vs. China Executive Compensation

• Average salary and bonus for top US executives is 17 times higher than China
• If equity-based pay such as stock options is included, it jumps to 42 times.

Top Five News Headlines

1. Senator seeks expanded visas for foreign high-tech workers
2. Court rules teacher fired for premarital sex has right to a trial
3. Labor Department Error Overstates Female Job Losses
4. Brown proposes 4-day week for state workers
5. Age Discrimination's Impact Disputed In Congressional Hearing On Unemployment