Workers from Bruegger’s Bagels’ Iowa City location protested Saturday, attempting to get the franchise to recognize “Bruegger’s Workers United,” the first union formed within Bruegger’s nationwide. “What we really wanted to do with this picket was get community support so that the people at the union feel more comfortable speaking out and showing their faces […]
Around 300 union workers across Washington joined Boeing firefighters on the picket line in Seattle as workers urged the global aerospace company to provide better working conditions and pay. WASHINGTON STATE LABOR COUNCIL EFFORTS: Boeing firefighters have been on the picket lines across Puget Sound since May 4 when the company announced its lockout. The […]
Want to live like you’re in a Norman Rockwell painting? You don’t have to go far in Central Jersey. According to a recent survey, Princeton was named among the top 100 best towns to live a quintessential “white picket fence” lifestyle. More: Hermès opens first Central Jersey location. Here’s where The results were uncovered when […]
May 6—MOSES LAKE — Staffing, safety and pay scales are at the root of a contract impasse that’s had Boeing firefighters locked out of the company’s Moses Lake facility since Saturday. “Currently, there is no fire protection here at Grant County other than one manager that’s been here since Friday,” said Daryl Gummere, business agent […]
Amid 90-degree heat on Saturday and coinciding with 4/20, about two dozen unionized cannabis workers and supporters conducted a two-hour picket outside a Phoenix marijuana dispensary at the heart of stalled bargaining negotiations. Nicholas Fredrickson stood alongside fellow Curaleaf employees participating in the rally organized by the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Local […]
By Jarrett Renshaw and Trevor Hunnicutt LAS VEGAS (Reuters) -President Joe Biden might join Las Vegas hotel employees on a picket line if they go on strike Monday, a move that would bind him closely with another group of workers in a 2024 election battleground state, the union’s chief told Reuters. Workers with the politically […]
From a film star at a Glasgow bingo rave to royalty at Glastonbury, there has been no shortage of celebrity sightings this year. With Samuel L Jackson, Ed Sheeran and Paris Hilton among some of the quirkier celeb spots, here the PA news agency takes a look at some of the best of the year. […]
The northern and southern lights are among nature’s most spectacular sights, providing beautiful light shows that dance across the night skies — but what exactly is an aurora? Auroras, also known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), are caused by the sun’s energy and particles interacting with Earth’s atmosphere as […]