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Suit accused Wal-Martof locking in janitors
NEWARK, N.J. -- A civil-rights suit filed against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. by illegal immigrants was expanded Monday to accuse America's biggest retailer of locking its janitors inside stores during their shifts.
The amendment to the lawsuit comes as a federal grand jury in Pennsylvania weighs evidence to determine whether Wal-Mart will face criminal charges in the use of illegal immigrants to clean its stores.
A lawyer for Wal-Mart denied the new allegation.
The suit claims some workers were forced to work seven-day, 70-hour weeks for $1,500 a month. The amended claim follows a report in The New York Times that contained the separate allegation that janitors were being locked in.
Super Bowl commercialstop list for TiVo users
NEW YORK -- Apart from Janet Jackson's now infamous "wardrobe malfunction," the most popular moments for TiVo users of Sunday's Super Bowl broadcast were, once again, the commercials.
TiVo Inc., in its third annual report of viewing patterns by its viewers during the game, also released its latest list of the top 10 most popular ads Monday, based on how many times they were viewed by users of the TiVo recording devices.
TiVo is one of the latest entrants into the growing industry of ranking Super Bowl ads, a natural outgrowth of the seemingly unstoppable surge in interest in the competition among the spots, which go to increasing lengths each year to grab attention and laughs.
A case in point: The most popular ad among TiVo viewers was one showing a sleigh date gone awry because of a flatulent horse.
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BOARDMAN -- WKBN and WYFX-TV and the union representing 35 news employees will return to the bargaining table at 9 a.m. Friday, said Joe Bell, a spokesman for Local 47 of the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians, a division of the Communications Workers of America. A federal mediator will join the talks Friday afternoon.
Workers have been manning informational pickets at the stations' Boardman headquarters since Saturday when managers refused to let them come to work. The union rejected a company contract offer Saturday.
Bell said union members have been asking other labor unions and politicians not to advertise with the stations while the lockout continues and "at least 20" business advertisers have agreed to pull their ads. A WKBN spokesman could not be reached.
Vindicator staff and wire reports