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Mar 17 2024
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Sisi: Egypt, European leaders agree to reject Rafah operation
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi says that Egypt and European leaders have agreed to reject a planned Israeli military operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah. An operation “would double the humanitarian catastrophe that civilians in the Gaza Strip are suffering from, in addition to the effects of that operation on liquidating the Palestinian cause, which Egypt outright rejects,”
The Times of IsraelApr 16 2024
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2 CVS pharmacies in Rhode Island file to unionize
Guild officials say understaffing at these retail stores has reached a “crisis level” for pharmacies across the US, as the industry faces severe shortages. Workers at pharmacies located in Westerly and in the Wakefield section of South Kingstown filed their petitions to the National Labor Relations Board, according to Guild officials. The actions come three weeks after workers at CVS Omnicare
The Boston GlobeApr 16 2024
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Tennessee VW workers voting on unionization this week
Employees at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga, Tennessee, plant will vote on whether to unionize this week in the first test of the United Auto Workers’ new organization drive. The more than 4,000 workers at the Chattanooga plant will begin voting Wednesday and continue until 8 p.m. Friday. The pro-union push needs a simple majority to succeed. The countdown to a vote began last month, when the UAW
Washington TimesMay 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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VW Workers in Tennessee Vote for Union, a Labor Milestone
In a landmark victory for organized labor, workers at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee have voted overwhelmingly to join the United Automobile Workers union, becoming the first nonunion auto plant in a Southern state to do so. In a statement late Friday, the company said that the union had won 2,628 votes, with 985 opposed, in a three-day election. Two earlier bids by the U.A.W. to organize the
New York Times (News)Apr 09 2024
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European Rights Court Hands Win to Swiss Seniors, Defeat to Portuguese Youth in Historic Climate Cases
In Strasbourg, France, the European Court of Human Rights handed out one victory and two defeats for the climate justice movement today as it ruled on three historic climate cases. The court ruled in favor of over 2,000 senior women from Switzerland who argued their rights were violated by governmental inaction on the climate crisis. Siofra O’Leary: “The court finds that there were some
Democracy Now!Apr 24 2024
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New Orleans used to have a strong teachers' union. Then Katrina happened.
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AxiosApr 17 2024
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Union vote underway at Volkswagen's only US plant
Workers at Volkswagen's lone U.S. factory are voting this week on whether to join the United Auto Workers in what is the union's third attempt at organizing the plant. Voting began Wednesday for the 4,100 hourly employees at Volkswagen's factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and will extend through Friday. This is the third time in 10 years the UAW has sought to represent VW Chattanooga workers,
Fox BusinessApr 13 2024
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More CVS pharmacies join movement to unionize
Two CVS pharmacies in Rhode Island, the state where the company's corporate headquarters is located, filed to unionize Friday as workers across the industry continue to highlight an escalating staffing crisis and cite concerns about patient safety. Pharmacists at the stores in Wakefield and Westerly are seeking to join The Pharmacy Guild, a U.S. trade union exclusively specializing in
Fox BusinessApr 20 2024
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Las Vegas Casino Unions Preparing To Take On Trump Again
It is the Democrats' not-so-secret weapon in Nevada -- a vast army of maids, cooks and bartenders that helped deliver this razor-tight swing state for Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden in 2016 and 2020. Now ahead of November's election, the Culinary Union, which represents 60,000 mainly Las Vegas-based hotel and casino workers, is preparing to mobilize its formidable network against Donald Trump
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