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As Amazon union vote count drags on, activists say "this is everybody's fight" By Musadiq Bidar Updated on: April 6, 2021 / 9:35 PM / CBS News The public portion of the vote counting process to determine whether workers in a Birmingham, Alabama suburb will form the first-ever union at an Amazon warehouse is estimated to begin this week. The election will affect the 6,000 employees at the Bessemer warehouse. But the final results could be delayed because both Amazon and the Retail, Warehouse, and Department Store Union (RWDSU) have an opportunity to issue legal challen...

Link Copied President Joe Biden can’t expect a lot of cooperation from Texas. That much has been made clear by state Republicans’ behavior in just the past three months. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton led a far-fetched federal lawsuit to overturn Biden’s victory. After that failed, he brought a suit against the new administration’s plan to pause immigration deportations only two days into Biden’s presidency. Just days after that, Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order pledging to fight Biden’s climate-change agenda—and when a bitter winter storm knocked out the ...

Brookings used those projections to see how growth differs from the baseline in different states. Tourism-heavy states, like Nevada, see the biggest percent differences. DC and Massachusetts may experience smaller changes to their employment growth because of the pandemic than other states, based on a new Brookings report. Mark Muro, senior fellow and policy director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings, and research assistant Yang You looked at how employment may change across the US over 10 years. The analysis is based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics' recent projections that co...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package is being hailed by Democrats and progressive policy advocates as a generational expansion of the social safety net,...

The news from around the world for March 12, 2021