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May 17 2024
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UC Santa Cruz academic workers to strike Monday, angered over treatment of pro-Palestinian protesters
The union representing 48,000 academic workers across the University of California said Friday that its members at UC Santa Cruz would go on strike Monday over alleged worker rights and free speech violations, potentially dealing a blow to campus operations at a critical time during the final weeks of the spring quarter. work The decision to target UC Santa Cruz came after 79% of voting
Los Angeles TimesMay 12 2024
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AOC highlights effort to ‘win’ against ‘barbarism’ for the future
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was adamant that she will not give up working to fend off a future she views as undesirable, saying, “we have to fight for each other.” While speaking on Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-VT) podcast, AOC complained that people are forced to choose “between medicine and rent,” ostensibly because of perceived inequities in healthcare and wages, calling it “barbarism
Washington ExaminerMay 17 2024
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Real Madrid considering Kroos and Modric contract renewals
Real Madrid are considering renewing the contracts of Toni Kroos and Luka Modric. Both players’ deals expire on June 30 and this is the first time this season that Madrid have considered extending the midfielders’ stay at the club beyond the end of the campaign. The the idea since last summer has been that at least one of the two players would leave after the 2023-2024 campaign. This would
New York Times (News)Feb 02 2024
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January Jobs Shocker: Payrolls Explode By 353K, Double The Expected And Higher Than All Estimate As Wages Surge
January Jobs Shocker: Payrolls Explode By 353K, Double The Expected And Higher Than All Estimate As Wages Surge Well, we did warn readers that anyone hoping for a negative print in an election year would be disappointed, and moments ago the BLS proved us right. With Wall Street expecting a continued declines in the pace of monthly growth, and consensus looking for a decline from last month's
ZeroHedgeMay 16 2024
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Putin Backs Beijing Peace Plan for Ukraine as He Meets with Xi Jinping in China
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping are meeting in Beijing as Russia wages a new offensive in northeast Ukraine. Last year, China put out a 12-point peace plan to end the war in Ukraine. Earlier today, Xi said China “hopes for the early return of Europe to peace and stability.” Xi and Putin also signed a joint statement to deepen their partnership on trade, as
Democracy Now!May 17 2024
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UAW faces test of its plan to unionize auto plants in anti-union South as vote wraps up at 2 Mercedes-Benz factories in Alabama
The United Auto Workers union faces the latest test of its ambitious plan to unionize auto plants in the historically nonunion South when a vote ends Friday at two Mercedes-Benz factories near Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The voting at the two Mercedes factories — one an assembly plant, the other a battery-making facility — comes a month after the UAW scored a breakthrough victory at Volkswagen’s
FortuneMay 17 2024
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Gildan Investors Should Back Browning and Reinstate Fired CEO, ISS Says
Gildan Activewear Inc. shareholders should vote for all eight board nominees put forward by activist investor Browning West LP, including the chief executive officer who was fired by the board last year, proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. said.
It’s a big victory for Browning West, which has a 5% stake in Gildan and has been waging a monthslong campaign to turf
BloombergMay 15 2024
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Regional Complexities Of The Israel/Hamas War : Fresh Air
The Economist Middle East correspondent Gregg Carlstrom explains why some Arab leaders hate Hamas, fear Iran and have some sympathy for Israel — although not for how Israel is waging the war.
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NPR Fact CheckJan 22 2024
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Thousands of California State University staffers launch 5-day strike over wages, working conditions
Thousands of staffers at California State University, the largest public university system in the U.S., launched a five-day strike on Monday over wages, workloads and health and safety concerns they said have been dismissed by management. The California Faculty Association, representing about 29,000 workers, has been bargaining since May. The professors, librarians, coaches and other workers
New York Daily NewsDec 28 2023
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Workers in New England states looking forward to a bump up in minimum wages in 2024
BOSTON (AP) — Workers in several New England states are looking forward to a bump up in the minimum wage in 2024 while advocates in Massachusetts are pushing a ballot question aimed at phasing out the state's subminimum wage of $6.75 per hour for tipped workers. In Rhode Island, the state's current $13 minimum wage will jump by $1 to $14 an hour on Jan. 1. It is the next step in a phased-in
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