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The Happiest Place On Earth?

The Happiest Place On Earth?

...if you are an immigrant...

As OneNewsNow reports, an attorney representing laid-off Disney workers claims the Fortune 500 company broke federal laws when it replaced them with immigrants.

Attorney Sara Blackwell filed a federal lawsuit this week on behalf of two former tech employees of Disney after the corporation hired H-1B visa recipients from overseas.

 

China Warns "Social Stability Threatened" As 400,000 Steel Workers Are About To Lose Their Jobs

China Warns "Social Stability Threatened" As 400,000 Steel Workers Are About To Lose Their Jobs

In late September, we were stunned to read (and report) that in the first mega-layoff in recent Chinese history, the Harbin-based Heilongjiang Longmay Mining Holding Group, or Longmay Group for short, the biggest met coal miner in northeast China had taken a page straight out of Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg's playbook and fired 100,000 workers overnight, 40% of its entire 240,000 workforce.

Tunisia: Nationwide Curfew In Place After Unemployment Protests

Tunisia is under a curfew again just five years after the Jasmine Revolution which ousted the old corrupt regime of President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in January 2015 and started the so called Arab Spring. Unemployment protests have spread nationwide and become violent, resulting in a nationwide curfew being imposed by the authorities to curb growing social unrest. Al Jazeera English YouTube video: Protests over unemployment rates and the economy had intensified and spread to several cities including the capital.

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