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Apr 15 2022
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‘That was my beloved son’: family of Patrick Lyoya say police killed their son in an ‘execution’
The grief-stricken parents of the Black man shot in the back of the head by a white Michigan police officer have described their son’s death as an “execution”.
Patrick Lyoya, a 26-year-old Congolese refugee, was killed after a traffic stop in Grand Rapids on 4 April.
“I didn’t believe that … there’s a genocide in this country,” said his father, Peter Lyoya, on Thursday through an
The GuardianFeb 03 2020
Background
Should Uber Drivers be Employees?
WHY THIS QUESTION MATTERS: California recently passed legislation that will change the employment status for more than one million people in the state, and set a new precedence for “gig economy” workers in general.
Let’s take a step back: "Gig" workers are engaged in non-traditional work such as driving passengers via Uber, delivering food via GrubHub, or performing an errand via
The ThreadOct 01 2021
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NYC’s Private Garbage Industry Is Getting Overhauled. Can a Notorious Teamsters Local Clean Up Again?
Just after 4 one morning in the fall of 2019, long before COVID-19 upended New York City’s trash-hauling industry, a non-union sanitation worker and two organizers for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters convened over orange juice in a booth at the Bronx’s Rainbow Diner. “Did they give you uniforms and other stuff that they was required to?” asked Allan Henry. The young driver scoffed
Mother JonesJan 17 2022
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Cost of masks and tests deepens a pandemic wedge between the haves and the have-nots
In recent weeks, as the omicron variant spread rapidly across the United States, Americans have found that the financial costs of the pandemic are increasingly falling on their shoulders.
As Covid-19 cases have climbed, public health experts have urged people to dump their cloth masks in favor of higher-quality options and to test more frequently to curb the virus.
The Centers
NBC News DigitalJun 07 2022
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Amazon fired Chris Smalls. Now the new union leader is one of its biggest problems.
A year ago, Chris Smalls couldn’t get politicians to return his calls.
But on a muggy morning in late April, two of the biggest names in politics — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) — were making a special trip to Staten Island, New York to visit with the 33-year-old former Amazon warehouse process assistant, father-of-three, and leader of a resurgent
VoxApr 08 2022
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Supply Chains Widely Tainted by Forced Labor in China, Panel Is Told
Human rights activists, labor leaders and others urged the Biden administration on Friday to put its weight behind a coming ban on products made with forced labor in the Xinjiang region of China, saying slavery and coercion taint company supply chains that run through the region and China more broadly.
The law, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, was signed by President Biden in
New York Times (News)Jun 03 2021
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Minneapolis' George Floyd Square: Crews dismantle barriers as city moves to reopen intersection
Minneapolis city workers could be seen at the intersection at George Floyd Square early Thursday morning – the site of a memorial where former police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee in the upper body of Floyd last May.
Video broadcast by local affiliates showed workers in hard hats and heavy machinery, including a dump truck, being brought into the intersection at 38th St. and
Fox News DigitalMay 17 2022
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US Congress holds first public UFO hearing in over 50 years
The first public congressional hearing into UFO sightings in the US in over 50 years is being held on Tuesday.
The highly-anticipated testimony from two top military officials tasked with probing the sightings will be closely watched after decades of secrecy.
The Pentagon brass are expected to say that it has been a struggle to unearth witness accounts from government workers
BBC Fact CheckAug 08 2022
Fact Check
Fact Check: White House Says Teenage Layabouts Drove the Labor Force Participation Rate Down
Claim: The decline in the labor force participation rate fell in July because fewer teenagers were working.
On Friday, after the Department of Labor’s jobs numbers showed that the labor force participation rate declined from 62.2 percent to 62.1 percent despite employers taking on 528,000 new workers, White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre claimed that the decline as “about
Breitbart Fact CheckNov 09 2021
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Hundreds of Thousands to Go on Four-Day Nationwide Strike Over Vaccine Mandates: Organizer
A nationwide strike against vaccine mandates will take place from Nov. 8 to Nov. 11, according to the main organizer for the walkout, Leigh Dundas, a human rights attorney and public speaker.
The event will kick off in Los Angeles on Monday. The locations of the marches have not yet been disclosed.
The walkouts involve people from various industries such as trucking and telecom.
The Epoch Times