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Four big unions, including the Service Employees International Union and the Teamsters, urged the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Monday to oppose Amazon.com's plan to buy Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, saying it would reduce competition in the streaming video market.

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I first read Alice Sebold when I took on “The Lovely Bones.” She then had me reading more of her works. There are very few contemporary writers who have that kind of power over writers. Now out with her next, “The Almost Moon,” Sebold tells the after-tale of a daughter killing her mother.

As the situation continues to escalate at Activision Blizzard, we've mapped out the timeline of how we got from the initial lawsuit to now.

At the beginning of the week, Image Comics staffers stated that after voting in a supermajority, they were forming a union, Comic Book Workers United, to

Workers in multiple unions have voted overwhelmingly in the past month to authorize a strike at Kaiser Permanente hospitals, including a possible open-ended walkout planned for November 15 by nearly 32,000 staff.

There's a tentative deal between the Catholic Health and the Communications Workers of America to end the five-week-long strike at Mercy Hospital in South Buffalo. The deal will also cover various units at other Catholic Health hospitals.

Approximately 10,100 members of the United Auto Workers will extend their strike into a third week after rank-and-file union members of farm and construction equipment maker, John Deere, voted down Tuesday what the company called its best and final proposal.

A new report predicts negative long-term consequences of ongoing remote work trends.

Just 31 votes separate the top two.