Tag: workers
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Boeing prepares layoff notices for thousands of workers as turmoil deepens
Thousands of Boeing staff will get layoff notices within weeks, a union and industry sources said, as a senior U.S. official flew to Seattle to try to ease a crippling strike and a major airline issued a warning over the planemaker’s deepening turmoil. Acting U.S. Labor Secretary Julie Su’s first in-person intervention comes days after…
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Armed North Carolina man arrested on suspicion of making threats against FEMA workers, authorities say
An armed North Carolina man was arrested after it was reported that he had made comments about “possibly harming FEMA employees” involved in hurricane relief efforts in the state, authorities said. William Jacob Parsons, 44, was arrested Saturday after the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office received a call saying the caller witnessed Parsons making threatening comments…
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At Asheville’s Mission Hospital, workers describe the dire conditions after the storm
Facing what could be months without a steady water supply, the only solution for Mission Hospital was to dig a well. The Asheville, North Carolina hospital was crippled after the fast-moving Hurricane Helene dumped a record amount of rain in the region over the weekend. “The entire water infrastructure to the area was obliterated,” said…
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Tennessee investigating plastics factory after workers trapped by Hurricane Helene floods died, went missing
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, the state’s criminal investigation agency, said Wednesday it is looking into allegations against an Erwin plastics factory where several workers died and some went missing after they were swept away by floodwaters from Hurricane Helene. “At the request of 1st Judicial District Attorney General Steve Finney, TBI agents are investigating…
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Health workers killed in Lebanon
Share Netanyahu to speak at UNGA after defying international calls for a cease-fire Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Friday after striking a defiant note the day before as he vowed to continue hitting Hezbollah “with all our might.” Netanyahu said Israel will not stop…
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Families of workers killed and injured in Maryland bridge collapse sue owner and operator of cargo ship
Victims’ families and a survivor of a Maryland bridge collapse that killed six people filed claims Friday for wrongful death and punitive damages against the owner and the operator of the massive cargo ship that crashed into the bridge earlier this year. The 100,000-plus-ton ship Dali slammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in the…
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Amazon increases average pay for warehouse workers and adds free Prime membership perk
Amazon announced Wednesday it is raising wages for its hourly warehouse workers and adding a new employee perk that will give them a Prime subscription at no extra cost. Beginning this month, Amazon’s average starting pay for front-line employees in the U.S. will be bumped to an average of more than $22 an hour, up from roughly…