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DETROIT—The United Auto Workers set the exact hour last night at which they will expand their historic strike to more than the three plants in three states currently being struck since the walkout began last week.
WASHINGTON—Hoping to keep voters’ eyes off their battle over whether to keep the government going or not beyond September 30, the House’s ruling Republicans have come up with a diversion: A budget blueprint that threatens Social Security.
DETROIT—With “no serious progress” by Detroit’s Big 3 automakers, GM, Ford and Stellantis, in talks on new contracts with the United Auto Workers, UAW’s bargaining team will send more locals out on picket lines by Friday, union President Shawn Fain warned.
ROME—Never one to pull his punches when supporting workers and opposing capitalist greed, Pope Francis I blames deaths and injuries on the job on corporate dehumanization of workers.
WASHINGTON—Bowing to the radical right Trumpites of the so-called Freedom Caucus and the corrupt corporate class who backs them—House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., commissioned three House committees to open a joint impeachment inquiry against Democratic President Joe Biden.