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WASHINGTON—Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ind-Vt., is proposing the United States and the People’s Republic of China mutually agree to cut military spending, shifting the money to combatting global warming. Sanders made his proposal in an Op-ed in The Guardian on Aug. 21.
WASHINGTON—For Tonya Jackson, a Maximus call center worker from the Deep South, the point of the Martin Luther King, Jr., “continuation” march in D.C. is a decent job that pays enough to raise her family—and the right to unionize to get it.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif.—After large rallies in Los Angeles and New York City, bargaining between the Writers Guild of America and the Hollywood and New York bosses of streaming videos, TV networks, and motion picture studios resumed as members of both that union and SAG-AFTRA continued to walk picket li...
WASHINGTON—By an 86%-14% margin in a record turnout, Teamsters members working for United Parcel Service ratified what union President Sean O’Brien called “an historic contract” with the big freight firm. It’s the largest private-sector contract in the U.S.
HOUSTON—Gag orders. Turning school libraries into detention centers. New teachers getting “bait-and-switch” acceptance letters with much lower pay. Even a farcical “play,” starring the state-named schools chief, staged for thousands of elementary school kids, at Reliant Stadium.