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Apr 12 2024
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The collapse of Baltimore's Key Bridge highlights risks construction workers face
NPR Fact CheckApr 16 2024
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LA council committee OKs 22% raise over 5 years for thousands of city workers
A Los Angeles City Council committee approved new contracts Tuesday with three labor groups representing thousands of employees that would result in pay raises totaling 22% over the course of five years as well as improved benefits. The three-member Personnel, Audits and Hiring Committee voted unanimously in favor of the contracts, which will be considered Wednesday by the full City Council.
Los Angeles Daily NewsApr 16 2024
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Toll Worker Called Out of Work Hours Before Garbage Truck Crashed into Plaza
A New Jersey woman went with her gut instincts, which may have saved her life. On the morning of Friday, April 12, toll collector Jessica Daley called out of work because she felt something bad was going to occur, and she was right. Just a few hours later, a garbage truck crashed into the toll plaza and the booth she mans on the Garden State Parkway, reports NBC New York , New Jersey News 12
PeopleApr 11 2024
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For South Florida’s immigrant construction workers, Baltimore bridge collapse is personal
Pedro Marcos Raymundo knows what it’s like to work in hazardous conditions. Since moving to South Florida in 2014, the Guatemalan man has worked in electricity, plumbing, any construction work he can find. During roofing jobs, he often won’t be able to get down to get a drink of water or rest in the shade. Under the heat of the sun, headaches and stomach pains set in. The metal roof sheets and
Miami HeraldApr 16 2024
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NYC saw ‘tech talent boom’ as top destination for relocating workers in 2023: study
New York City is “in the midst of a tech talent boom” — and was the preferred destination for relocating tech workers in 2023, according to an industry study. The Big Apple posted a 3.6% net gain in tech talent, meaning more workers relocated to the city than left to pursue opportunities, according to an analysis released by venture capital firm SignalFire. The gain was the largest of any city
New York Post (News)Apr 18 2024
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Wichita KS city worker finds loaded gun while doing maintenance in storm drain
A Wichita city worker found a loaded handgun while doing maintenance on a storm water drain in west Wichita, according to a report and police. The black, Taurus Spectrum .380 was found in the drain in front of a home in the 3300 block of West St. Louis, which is close to Sheridan and Central. The gun was found around 9:41 a.m. Wednesday. “The gun will be processed as evidence to determine if
The Wichita EagleApr 08 2024
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Israeli Inquiry into Aid Worker Deaths Reveals ‘Internal Failures’
Around 11 p.m. local time last Monday, seven aid workers employed by World Central Kitchen (WCK)—an NGO that provides food aid in times of disaster and war—set off along a coastal road used to deliver aid in the central part of the Gaza Strip. They’d been part of a convoy transporting 100 tons of food aid that had arrived at a recently built pier to a warehouse in Deir el-Balah. After
The DispatchApr 18 2024
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GOP Senators Seek to Reinstate Secret Ballots for Unionization as Volkswagen Workers Vote on Joining UAW
A group of Senate Republicans is seeking to reinstate secret ballots for unionization of workplaces in the United States as about 4,300 auto workers at Volkswagen’s Chatanooga, Tennessee plant decided whether to join the United Auto Workers (UAW). Last year, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) abandoned more than half a century of precedent where secret ballot elections were considered
Breitbart NewsApr 18 2024
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‘Done out of anger.’ Former Kentucky youth worker admits guilt in excessive force case
A former worker at a Kentucky juvenile detention facility pleaded guilty in connection with breaking a 15-year-old boy’s arm. Nathaniel Lumpkins pleaded guilty to a federal charge of violating the teen’s Constitutional right to be free from excessive force. The incident happened in January 2019 at the Woodsbend Youth Development Center in Morgan County. Lumpkins responded to a call to help two
Yahoo NewsApr 15 2024
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Fed up with burglaries, gaming store workers wrestle alleged thief to the ground in California
Employees of a novelty store in California were fed up by robberies and wrestled to the ground the last alleged thief who brazenly stole from the shop. Unfortunately, the man was armed and escaped after threatening the workers. The incident unfolded on Friday at about 8:00 p.m. at the "Into the Retroverse" store in the city of Colton. The workers said that the alleged burglar walked into the
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