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Office workers flood District streets at Mt. Vernon Square in Northwest after a 5.9 earthquake in Virginia is felt in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, August 23, 2011. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)

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Office workers flood District streets at Mt. Vernon Square in Northwest after a 5.9 earthquake in Virginia is felt in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, August 23, 2011. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)

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Grocery workers from Ralphs, Vons and Albertsons began voting on Friday in San Diego to reject a health care package proposed by the chains. Thousands of Southern California grocery workers voted overwhelmingly to reject a health care proposal from major supermarket chains and authorize their union leaders to call a strike, a spokesman said Sunday. (Associated Press)

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Ron McLellan (left), president of the Connecticut Employees Union Independent, celebrates with Robert Alves, District 1199 union member, in Hartford, Conn., on Thursday, after Connecticut's state employee unions announced that rank-and-file members ratified a labor savings and concessions pact. (Associated Press)

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Job seekers stand in line to enter a job fair in Independence, Ohio, on Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2011. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Members of the public, many representing unions, listen as people speak Tuesday during a public hearing on proposed toll increases in New York. The union members mostly support the toll increases to fund projects that they think will create jobs.

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"There seems to be a lot of that going on. I understand she can't comment because it's a personnel issue but there should be a way to [complain] internally." Lexie Briggs, Columbia Heights, non-profit employee

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** FILE ** President Obama signs the health care bill at the White House in Washington on March 23, 2010. (Associated Press)

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President Obama signs the health care bill in the White House on March 23, 2010. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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PROVIDED BY SYFY The cast of "Eureka," (from left) Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Joe Morton and Tembi Locke, will be looking for new employment after Syfy on Monday reversed its decision to renew the show for a sixth season.

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DREW ANGERER/THE WASHINGTON TIMES Kristopher K. Baumann, president of the Fraternal Order of Police, says more than half of city police officials appointed rather than hired competitively do not live in the city as required by law.

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A man works in the ruins of a building in Port-au-Prince damaged by an earthquake. The government is giving wage earners access to credit at a preferential rate for 10 years to enable them to buy or construct a home. (Associated Press)

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The NFL and its players are getting close to a full-fledged collective bargaining agreement. The NFLPA already has re-established itself as a union, according to AP sources. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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U.S. Soccer moved quickly to name a replacement for fired coach Bob Bradley, announcing Juergen Klinsmann's hiring Friday, a day after Bradley was let go. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

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Transportation Security Administration chief John S. Pistole on Thursday welcomed the unionization of his agency's 47,000 airport screeners. The move has proved controversial, with critics arguing that, as a security agency, TSA should not allow collective bargaining. (Associated Press)

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Mayor Vincent C. Gray speaks with students and supervisers working with the District Department of Transportation during an announcement of the completion of pay-by-phone parking across the District. (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** In this July 26, 2011, photo, workers seeking employment create resumes and look for open positions on laptops provided by USAJobs at a job fair for space workers and those workers that lost jobs due to the end of the space shuttle program in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)