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for local law enforcement agencies, workplaces, and houses of worship, partnerships with schools that help them address bullying and harassment. im calling for a new era of national service to organizations like americorps to bridge divides in our society and im calling on congress to do its part, raise the living allowance for national service positions to the equivalent of $15 an hour. [ applause ] this would make national service an accessible pathway to success for more americans o...

In 1946 250,000 rail workers walked off the job bringing much of the united states to a screeching halt after negotiations for a pay increase stalled. >> weeks of negotiation proved fruitless, cutting off shipments of vital supplies and leaving thousands stranded in every part of the country. >> the strike suddenly ended when president harry truman, a democrat who despised strikes, made a shocking request of congress -- to grant him the authority to draft the striking workers into the armed forc...

Worklife balance and people are prioritizing more and you see across not just drivers but across the whole workforce people reevaluating how they balance their life and they are reprioritizing their family and the job which can keep you away from your family for weeks at a time, its one greatly impacted by this. >> theres also a letter i want to read to you, repugnant senators are concerned labor shortage will be made worse by the vaccine mandate, if it ends up going into effect, we fear vaccina...

The Emergency Management (Arrivals) (COVID-19) Direction 2021 has been created and replaces the Emergency Management (Cross Border Travel – General No

From midnight tonight Commercial Transport and Freight Workers entering South Australia by road must provide evidence of at least one dose of a

Essential Travellers required to show evidence of at having received at least one does of a TGA-approved COVID-19 vaccination by early October can now

Mick lynch is the general secretary of the rmt rail union. in one aspect of this you can see the benefit for some employers in keeping services going, but the other side is clearly that it means people are going to potentially be in a working environment who may potentially cause a health risk. where is your union on this? we need to protect all of our members. we were told on thursday and friday this would only apply to a limited number of our people, signalling and control workers, who would b...

Geroge Zangalis (left) at a protest for pensioner rights in 2019. Photo: Joe Montero / The Pen Communist, trade unionist and class-struggle fighter for migrant rights George Zangalis died on March 25. Radicalised during the Greek civil war at the end of World War II, Zangalis remained a fighter until the end. Despite the Communist Party of Greece leading substantial sections of the anti-Nazi Resistance movement during World War II, after the Nazi occupation of Greece ended in 1944, the British ...

Geroge Zangalis (left) at a protest for pensioner rights in 2019. Photo: Joe Montero / The Pen Communist, trade unionist and class-struggle fighter for migrant rights George Zangalis died on March 25. Radicalised during the Greek civil war at the end of World War II, Zangalis remained a fighter until the end. Despite the Communist Party of Greece leading substantial sections of the anti-Nazi Resistance movement during World War II, after the Nazi occupation of Greece ended in 1944, the British ...

Mandatory evacuations in ventura county have been lifted, so residents can start to make their way home, rob and jillian. rob: yeah, malibu has been decimated, thank you so much, ray, we appreciate your time. jillian: last-minute deal for ups could prevent extra headaches with christmas fast-approaching, that doesnt good. rob: tracee carrasco joins us live as the company avoids major strike, tracee. >> good morning, overnight ups freight workers approved a new labor contract avoiding a strike th...