Dutch Harbor workers face harsh conditions for big bucks
The Dutch Harbor Alaska crab and fish industry lures migrants with promises of big overtime earnings. Labor leaders allege below minimum wages, poor medical care, and bondage-like debt deductions. inspectors say some practices are legal and conditions are typical of harsh remote work. Union officials cite minorities and language barriers, high voyage costs, and restricted returns under Alaska law, while employers justify long hours to preserve product.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Dutch Harbor
Aleutian
Aleutians
Don Wilson
Wilson
U.S
Larry Cotter
Alaska Council of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen’s Union
Seattle
Cotter
Scott McKinney
Jeff Pitts
Trident Seafoods
Charles Bundrant
Bundrant
Rod Andersen
Burley
Idaho
ILWU
Juneau
Dutch Harbor Week
California
No Man's Land
Cheek
Montgomery County schools sponsor learning screening clinics
Montgomery County Public Schools sponsor 10 free preschool screening clinics to identify potential handicapped children born after 1976. Clinicians will assess for mental retardation emotional impairment learning disabilities visual or hearing impairment physical disability or speech impairment. Clinics run 9 am to noon at Rosemont Elementary Gaithersburg March 10 Taylor Learning Center Boyds March 25 Sandy Spring Annex Sandy Spring March 24 and Lucy Barneley Elementary Rockville March 4.
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Rockville
Montgomery County
Child Fund
Rosemont
Alden Ave
Gaithersburg
Taylor Learning Center
White Grounds Road
Boyds
Sandy Spring
Sandy Spring Annex
Brooke Road
Lucy Barneley
Nadine Drive
Maryvale
Doctor's illness guides cancer patients at Scripps Center
In Los Angeles areas a cancer program led by Dr John Trombold at Scripps Memorial Hospital focuses on quality of life for patients. Trombold, battling hemolytic anemia, runs clinics in Takoma Park Kensington Silver Spring Bethesda Potomac and Rockville with a $100,000 budget and a team of volunteers. The program offers biweekly group therapy, psycho social support, bereavement help, and home visits to help patients die with dignity.
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John Trombold
Trombold
University of Kansas
Cancer Center
Scripps Memorial Hospital
John Tombold
Trombolt
Scripps
Ellen Browning Scripps
Anne
New York
William Goldman
Goldman
Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences and Bell System
FOCUS
Datsun
Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences
Harriette H. Aaron
New York University
Alm School
Abe
Academy
Fay Kaoic
Ai4
Ovcara
Los Angeles
Fim
Allan Carr
Joan Micklin Silver
Carr
Tye
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Ignee
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A&w Root Beer
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Jane Parker
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Ruby Trust
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