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Apr 23 2024
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Nearly 800 Heathrow workers to strike in May, union says
April 23 (Reuters) - Nearly 800 workers at Heathrow Airport will strike next month after the company laid out plans to outsource hundreds of roles in an effort to cut costs, a British labour union said on Tuesday. The workers will strike from May 7 to May 13, Unite said in a statement, adding that the country's busiest airport did not enter into negotiations with the union about alternatives
ReutersApr 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 19 2024
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UAW: Tennessee workers at VW plant vote yes
Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga overwhelming voted to join the United Auto Workers, giving the union a key victory in the historically anti-union South. By 10:09 p.m. ET more than half the 4,300 eligible workers had voted to join the union, according to the UAW posted count. The final results have yet to posted by the National Labor Review Board, but throughout the night the union had been
The TennesseanApr 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 TimesApr 19 2024
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Bomber targets Japanese workers in Pakistan; all survive
KARACHI, Pakistan — A suicide bomber targeted a van carrying Japanese nationals in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi on Friday, police said. The Japanese nationals escaped unharmed but officials later said one bystander was killed. Initially, police said the van was heading to an industrial area where the five Japanese nationals worked when it came under attack, local police chief Arshad Awan
San Jose Mercury NewsApr 18 2024
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Louisiana Panel Repeals Lunch Breaks For Child Workers
Lawmakers on a Louisiana House committee voted Thursday to repeal a law requiring employers to give child workers lunch breaks and to slash unemployment benefits — part of a Republican-backed push to roll back regulations on companies and reduce aid for injured and unemployed workers. The House Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations advanced the child labor bill, House Bill 156, along
JoeMyGodApr 18 2024
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Volkswagen Chattanooga workers consider voting in UAW this week
Volkswagen Chattanooga workers consider voting in UAW this week From left, Volkswagen Chattanooga assembly team member Isaac Meadows, 40, talks with body shop team member Angel Gomez, 40, at a community gathering in support of the UAW effort, at IBEW Local 175 in Chattanooga, TN, April 14, 2024. The Detroit News/Robin Buckson Robin Buckson, The Detroit News Signage in favor of the UAW is
Detroit NewsApr 17 2024
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Google Workers Protest Cloud Contract With Israel's Government
Dozens of Google employees began occupying company offices in New York City and Sunnyvale, California, on Tuesday in protest of the company’s $1.2 billion contract providing cloud computing services to the Israeli government.
The sit-in, organized by the activist group No Tech for Apartheid, is happening at Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian’s office in Sunnyvale and the 10th floor commons
WiredApr 23 2024
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'Everyone's Afraid': Ukraine Power Plant Workers Fear Fresh Strikes
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Barron'sApr 17 2024
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Google Workers Arrested for Protesting Israeli Military Contract
In a video posted on social media, police could be seen entering a room and removing peaceful protesters Tuesday, with one knocking over the camera being used to record the scene. "The arrest of its own workers who participated in a historic, coast-to-coast 10 hour sit-in at the company’s headquarters," read a caption accompanying the video posted by the No Tech for Genocide campaign who
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