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Oct 23 2023
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UAW strike expanded with walkout at Stellantis
The United Auto Workers union on Monday staged a surprise walkout of 6,800 employees at a Stellantis factory in Sterling Heights, Mich. The union has been on strike against Detroit’s top three automakers—Ford, Stellantis, and General Motors—for more than a month seeking higher wages, fewer working hours, and some benefits. Roughly 41,000 autoworkers are now on strike across the country. Why
World MagazineNov 14 2023
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Ford UAW contract: Why some think Kentucky Truck Plant employees voted 'no' on contract
The Ford workers at the automakers' highly profitable Kentucky Truck Plant voted against the tentative agreement the company and the United Auto Workers union reached in late October after a 41-day strike at Ford, which featured 9,000 Louisville workers on the strike line for two weeks. UAW Local 862, which represents the Louisville area's 12,000 Ford workers at KTP and the Louisville Assembly
The Courier-JournalNov 09 2023
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Health Department investigates dozens of cases of Legionnaires’ disease in New Jersey
Health Department investigates dozens of cases of Legionnaires’ disease in New Jersey The New Jersey Department of Health is investigating an increase in Legionnaires’ disease cases in Middlesex and Union counties. Officials say that as of Nov. 6, about 40 people tested positive for Legionella, the bacteria that causes the illness. The department is collaborating with local agencies to
News 12 New JerseyNov 06 2023
Fact Check
Pro-Trump PAC Spars with DeSantis over Puerto Rican Statehood
A pro-Donald Trump super PAC and Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign are both spinning the facts about support for Puerto Rican statehood.
A TV ad from the super PAC claims that when DeSantis, now Florida’s governor, was a U.S. congressman, he “sided with the liberals” and sponsored a bill “to make Puerto Rico a state,” a move it said would result in adding two Democrats to the Senate
FactCheck.orgNov 11 2023
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Biden draws laughter and cheers as he tells auto workers in Illinois he’s been ‘with the UAW longer than you’ve been alive’
BELVIDERE, Ill. (AP) — President Joe Biden put on a red United Auto Workers shirt on Thursday as he celebrated a labor deal that will reopen the Stellantis plant in Belvidere, Ill., treating the factory’s salvation as a vindication of his decision to stand with striking union members as they demanded higher wages. “American workers are ready to work harder than anyone else,” Biden told
MarketWatchOct 23 2023
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UAW expands strike against Stellantis, hitting pickup truck plant
WASHINGTON/DETROIT, Oct 23 - The United Auto Workers (UAW) union struck Chrysler-parent Stellantis's largest assembly plant on Monday, hitting the automaker's profitable RAM 1500 pickup truck production in a major expansion of the more than month-old strike. The UAW said another 6,800 workers at a Michigan truck plant are going on strike at Stellantis because the company has the "worst
ReutersOct 21 2023
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“Killers of the Flower Moon” Is a Groundbreaking Achievement
The United States was born in settler-colonialism; the story of America’s formation is one of the descendants of Europeans spreading out across a continent, murdering and expelling Indigenous peoples everywhere they go. Hollywood has recounted this story from its earliest days via a genre, the Western, that has traditionally cast Anglo-American cowboys as the vanguard of civilization,
New RepublicNov 10 2023
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Andover teacher strike extends into weekend
ANDOVER, Mass — The teacher’s strike in Andover will extend into the weekend. Although the Andover Education Association and the School Committee met for eight hours, a deal was not reached Friday, a union spokesperson told Boston 25 News. “Our strike vote has initiated the kind of bargaining we have wanted for months. We have a lot of ground to cover, but both sides are talking and that is
Boston 25 NewsOct 05 2023
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Day 2 of Kaiser strike: Latest on negotiations and possible next round of walkouts
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Thousands of Kaiser Permanente workers returned to the picket lines Thursday for the second day of a planned three-day walkout, and union leaders said if they can't come to an agreement with the health care provider, there will be a second strike. The strike began Wednesday morning at Kaiser facilities across the state. The Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions has been
ABC 7 Los AngelesNov 14 2023
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Sanders slams Senate hearing feud as ‘pathetic’
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Tuesday slammed the near-brawl between GOP Sen. Markwayne Mullin (Okla.) and International Brotherhood of Teamsters President Sean O’Brien, calling the encounter “pathetic.” Asked by CNN anchor Jake Tapper if he has seen a time like this before, Sanders said, “Well, it’s pretty pathetic. I mean we have a United States senator challenging….a member of the panel
The Hill