Lowe’s Workers in New Orleans Petition to Form Company’s First-Ever Union
Lowe’s workers in New Orleans have filed a petition to unionize, seeking to become the first unionized location of the home improvement company’s 1,723 U.S. stores. According to the filingThe National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) posted the union. It would cover 172 employees at the store, including sales associates, fulfillment, merchandising, and receiving duties. Workers […]
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GOP Plans to Gut Social Security and Medicare If It Retakes Control of Congress
Wednesday’s warning by the Democratic chair of Congress Joint Economic Committee was made by the Democratic Chair. GOP’s plan to use a looming debt ceiling fight as leverage to secure cuts to Social Security and Medicare would be “economically catastrophic for seniors, families, and our entire economy.” “Past debt-limit brinksmanship resulted in the first-ever downgrade […]
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Wisconsin Paper Bashes Ron Johnson, Encourages Voters to “Send Him Packing”
The editorial board of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel the most widely read Wisconsin-based newspaper in the state, urged residents to vote against Republican Senator Ron Johnson on November. The editorial didn’t endorse Johnson’s opponent, current Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes (D). But the paper’s editors did say that Wisconsin voters in the 2022 midterms should not […]
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Rush to Mine Electric Vehicle Battery Elements Threatens People and Ecosystems
The Inflation Reduction Act became law this summer. Much of the excitement was focused on the potential boost it would give to electric vehicle sales. Sadly, though, manufacturing and driving tens of millions of individual electric passenger cars won’t get us far enough down the road to ending greenhouse-gas emissions and stanching the overheating of […]
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Brazil’s Runoff Election Will Have Enormous Effects on the Global Climate Crisis
Brazil is now headed toward a rocky presidential runoff vote on October 30, after its October 2 election produced no clear winner between far right populist president Jair Bolsonaro — an outspoken admirer of the brutal military dictatorship that came to power in 1964 by deposing a democratically elected president and lasted until 1985 — […]
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Cori Bush Condemns GOP’s Ongoing Attacks on Student Debt Relief
On Wednesday, a Missouri federal court heard arguments in a case that could decide the fate federal student debt cancellation. Democratic Rep. Cori Bus condemned GOP attorneys general who attempted to stop much-needed economic relief from tens of thousands of borrowers. “Efforts to undermine the Biden administration’s student loan cancellation program are the latest example […]
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MPs express their concern about the depletion of buses around the UK
In the debate that followed the oral question delivered to the Minister for Transport, Lucy Frazer by Anna Firth, MP’s discussed the funding delivered to buses across the UK. Frazer said that the government had invested nearly £2 billion in buses over the pandemic to ensure they stayed afloat. Mike Penning, MP from Hemel Hempstead, […]
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More Conservative MPs break cover to call for a mini budget U-Turn
Some three weeks on from Chancellor Kwarsi Kwarteng’s mini budget, a whole host of senior Conservative MPs have now gone public to call on the government to reverse its plans to reduce taxation paid from increased borrowing. The emerging public criticism from Conservative MPs follow comments by Liz Truss yesterday at prime minister’s questions in […]
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More Conservative MPs break cover to call for a mini budget U-Turn
Some three weeks on from Chancellor Kwarsi Kwarteng’s mini budget, a whole host of senior Conservative MPs have now gone public to call on the government to reverse its plans to reduce taxation paid from increased borrowing. The emerging public criticism from Conservative MPs follow comments by Liz Truss yesterday at prime minister’s questions in […]
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Starbucks Kept List of Pro-Union Employees to Punish, Ex-Manager Says
At least at one point in Starbucks’s anti-union campaign, the company’s upper management maintained a list of pro-union employees that they encouraged managers to seek out and punish, newly unveiled testimony from a former Starbucks manager reveals. David Almond, a former manager of several Starbucks stores in Buffalo, stated in testimony under oathIn August, he […]
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