Subject: U.S. Department of Labor

• Paul McKee's Yard-Maintenance Update: Mow Your Own Lawn, Mister!

  May 23, 2008

• Labor Pains: St. Louis landscapers worry they'll be short Mexican workers to mow lawns and bag leaves

  December 3, 2008

• Running on Empty

  Truck firms are so desperate for drivers that just about anybody can get behind the wheel

  May 10, 2006

• Nuclear Half-Lies

  Mallinckrodt's workers were poisoned and the government said it would pay. So far, those promises haven't been kept.

  August 13, 2003

• Purple Power

  May 21, 2003

• Remember Paris

  When Emerson pulls out of this small southern town, it'll leave bitterness and broken promises behind. That's what happens when a marriage ends badly.

  October 16, 2002

• Timed Out

  When the downtown safari corps demanded back pay, the Downtown Partnership told them to turn in their helmets

  August 14, 2002

• The Anarchists' Cookbook

  March 7, 2001

• EYE OF THE NEEDLE

  January 5, 2000

• Build-A-Bear Workshop or Sweatshop? Local Company Cited for Child Labor Violations

  www.greenfreak.netEarlier this week, the U.S. Department of Labor cited St. Louis-based company Build-A-Bear Workshop for child labor violations in five states and the makers of the cuddly little stuffed animals were slapped with more than $25,000 in fines.But while the phrase "child labor" conjures images of 8 year-old Filipino girls sewing soles on $120 sneakers for 2 cents an hour, that's not exactly the case in this instance. The violations stemmed from 16 and 17 year-old employees who were

  May 21, 2009