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Six Die in Amazon Warehouse Collapse
Late on Friday night, a massive tornado ripped through four states. Dozens are believed to have died in the storm which hit a candle factory in Mayfield Kentucky and an Amazon warehouse in Illinois....
9,000 NYC Workers Put on Leave over Mandate
On Monday morning, 9,000 New York City Municipal workers were put on unpaid leave after refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccine. The move came after New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio set a vaccine mandate...
Killed on the John Deere Picket Line
Update: Richard Rich has now been identified as the UAW member who was killed on the picket line. Tragedy has struck the John Deere picket line after one of their members was killed by a car in...
Union Workers Quit on Morning of Fatal Shooting
On Friday morning, the world was shocked to hear about the tragic death of Halyna Hutchins at the hands of Alec Baldwin. It has emerged that the actor fired a prop gun that he believed was not loaded...
NY AG Shuts Down Out of State Scabs in Buffalo Strike
This article first appeared on Labor Press. New York State Attorney General Letitia James last week stepped into the strike over understaffing at Buffalo’s Mercy Hospital, issuing a cease-...
Getting the Vax is Patriotic
The letter below first appeared in Newsday. During World War II, this country knew who its enemy was — the Axis of Germany, Japan and Italy. Many men and women enlisted, and some even lied...
IBEW: Vaccines Protect Everyone on the Job
This article was written by the IBEW Media Department. The COVID-19 vaccine is a modern medical miracle, the result of a decade of American-led research into mRNA vaccines and a half decade of...
Get a Shot, Protect our Kids
This editorial was written by Randi Marshall and was first published in Newsday. For years, I was one of "those" parents. As co-president of my daughter’s elementary school Parent...
15 Anti-Vaxxers Who Died
Over the last year and a half, conservatives have played a major role in pushing people to not take COVID seriously, not wear your mask, and to avoid getting a vaccine. Thanks to these efforts, Red...
New Law Targets Amazon Quotas
Fresh off of his overwhelming win in the California recall election, Governor Gavin Newsome has signed into law a first-of-its-kind bill to help workers at Amazon. The bill, AB701, gives workers...