The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. Add to that more than 3,000 tipsheets from our national conferences on how to cover specific beats or do specific stories and you have a resource that no reporter or editor should be without. These stories and tipsheets are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Logged-in members can view the tipsheets free online:
Search results for "labor unions" ...
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Spanish Translation of Investigating European Farmbusiness: Networking is the key
This is the Spanish translation of tipsheet #2681. Brigitte Alfter proporciona consejos para investigar la industria agricola en los EEUU y la Union Europea. Tambien da informacion acerca de la Ley de Acceso a la Informacion en los EEUU. Adicionalmente, hay muchos enlaces utiles que pueden ayudar a los reporteros en su labor.
Tags: 2681; agricultura; union europea; libertad de informacion; FOI; acceso a la informacion; espanol; negocios agrÃcolas europeos;
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Farmworker Web Sites
This tipsheet is a long list of websites about labor abuses. It is broken down into three categories: advocacy groups, legal groups, and government.
Tags: farmers; workers; internet; unions; rural legal aid; department of labor
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OSHA / Workplace Tipsheet
This tipsheet is about how to do an OSHA investigation without being overwhelmed. It includes advice about analyzing the data, as well as suggestions for making the data more manageable. The tipsheet ends with a list on web resources for an OSHA project.
Tags: Occupational Safety; data analysis; CAR; workers; unions; Labor and Industry Department.
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Investigating your local company whether public or private
This tipsheet outlines numerous tips, resources and websites that can be used to investigate a company, from UCC filings of a private company to SEC filings of a public one, from quarterly reports to court records, from labor unions to regulatory agencies.
Tags: business; companies; backgrounding; records; documents; CAR; computer-assisted reporting; Nature of Suit listing
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Job Profiles and Occupational Health Reporting
A list of federal, state and local sources for covering job profiles and occupational health.
Tags: OSHA; worker safety; unions; labor
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Tracking Your Hometown Business Overseas
Here's the 18-point checklist for investigating businesses abroad.
Tags: Foreign papers; Chambers of Commerce; labor unions; Red Cross; court filings; regulators; ministries of economic; U.S. embassy
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Hidden Data: Federal Databases that Federal Agencies Do Not Go Out of Their Way to Disseminate
An eclectic collection of updates reporting on access to federal information, labor, personnel and environmental stories and accompanying data, and a one-page list of federal online sources.
Tags: FOI; Office of Management and Budget; Americans with Disabilities Act; Unions Information Regulation; ADA
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Labor Racketerring
"A New Face in Labor Racketeering" looks at health insurance fraud targeting small companies or labor unions whom the larger insurance companies refuse to cover; racketeers set up phony insurance plans known as MEWA or Multiple Employee Welfare Benefits Plans, which are minimally regulated; racketeers defraud workers by charging for insurance then making off with the cash. Two-page handout offers tips for uncovering these schemes.
Tags: Labor