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Apr 16 2024
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Time Machine: Cedar Rapids’ Old Union Depot
It was ‘a foul blot, an insult, a monument to greed,’ The Gazette decreed As I wrote in a November 2014 Time Machine, “The Cedar Rapids Union Depot was a small, unattractive building that hardly suited a growing city.’ Plans for that first union depot began when the Chicago, Iowa & Nebraska Railroad ran a rail line through Cedar Rapids in June 1859, bringing passenger service to the city
Cedar Rapids GazetteMay 30 2022
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European Union Pledges to Curb Oil Purchases From Russia
European Union leaders said for the first time that they would impose an oil embargo on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, taking a big step forward in an economic fight against Moscow that is already reverberating in global markets.
The embargo would include an exemption for oil delivered from Russia via pipelines, an amount that makes up one-third of EU oil purchases from Russia. EU
Wall Street Journal (News)Apr 19 2024
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Volkswagen workers in Tennessee could change the trajectory of unions in the South
NPR Fact CheckApr 02 2024
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European markets set to open lower as caution returns; euro zone inflation data due
European markets are set to open lower Wednesday as sentiment turns cautious at the start of the new trading quarter.
The pan-European Stoxx 600 closed lower Tuesday after a subdued first day of trade after the Easter break.
Wednesday is light on the corporate earnings front, but inflation data is due out of the euro zone and Turkey.
Markets were lower in Asia-Pacific,
CNBCApr 17 2024
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VW workers in Tennessee begin voting in UAW union election
United Press InternationalJul 16 2018
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Trump Says European Union Is America’s Biggest ‘Foe’
President Trump called the European Union a “foe” of the United States in an interview which aired Sunday, just one day before his controversial — and still unexplained — meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Finland. Asked to name America’s “biggest foe globally right now” during an appearance on CBS’s Face the Nation, the first answer that came to Trump’s mind was the E.U.
New York MagazineApr 16 2024
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Salerno gets endorsement from major building trades union
The International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers (SMART) has endorsed businessman Joe Salerno for the Democratic nomination for Congress in New Jersey’s second district. Salerno is one of four Democrats seeking to take on Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-Dennis) in the general election. “Joe’s focus on job creation, fair wages, a stronger infrastructure, and affordable
New Jersey GlobeOct 28 2022
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European Union adopts ban on gas-powered cars beginning in 2035
Negotiators from the European Union reached a deal that would effectively ban sales of gas-powered cars beginning in 2035.
The deal was reached on Thursday by negotiators from EU member countries, European Parliament, and the European commission.
By 2035, the new law states that carmakers must cut their CO2 emissions by 100%, rendering it impossible to sell cars that are gas-
Fox BusinessApr 18 2024
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Mercedes-Benz workers at Alabama plant slated for union vote in May
Workers at Mercedes-Benz's plant in Vance, Alabama, outside Tuscaloosa will vote next month on whether to join the United Auto Workers labor union. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on Thursday said the 5,000 eligible workers at the factory will be able to cast their ballots from May 13-17. The announcement comes as voting is underway at Volkswagen's only plant in the U.S., where
Fox BusinessApr 18 2024
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Walgreens pharmacists’ union to demonstrate outside 46 Chicago-area stores
A union representing Walgreens pharmacists plans to demonstrate outside of more than 46 local Walgreens stores over the next month to protest pay and working conditions. The National Pharmacists Association-LIUNA, which says it represents 900 Chicago-area Walgreens pharmacists, plans to demonstrate outside two or three stores a day from now until May 10. The union says the pharmacists have
Chicago Tribune