• Brightspeed union workers picket for better benefits

    DOTHAN, Ala. (WDHN) — A disconnect between the Brightspeed corporate office and its employees led to an information picketing event in Downtown Dothan on Saturday afternoon. Over 20 people at the intersection of West Troy Street and North Oates Street in Dothan picketed to try and get better benefits from Brightspeed. This internet company is []

  • Twins lose to Orioles 11-3; Baldelli says team needs to be better prepared

    In the 11-3 loss to the Orioles, Twins starter Chris Paddack was hit even harder than Louie Varland was the night before. Both pitchers have identical ERAs of 8.36 through their first three starts.

  • Graduate workers deserve better

    In the United States and at the University of Iowa, it is unacceptable that trying to further their education often leads to graduate students financial turmoil. Recently, the UI’s graduate student union Campaign to Organize Graduate Students, or COGS, held a protest on the Pentacrest to continue their push to end graduate student fees. In

  • I-Team: Another worker with a child in a government car

    A taxpayer turned to the Fox 8 I-Team with a video of a child getting out of a county vehicle outside a school. This comes after a recent firestorm over kids in City of Cleveland cars.

  • Better Communicate Data with Your Team for $20 with Microsoft Visio

    Visio features a wide range of diagramming tools that can support projects across all industries.

  • Google fires 28 workers after protest over Israeli contract

    Google fired 28 employees Thursday following sit-ins at the company’s New York and Sunnyvale, California, offices.

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    AGO to reopen April 30 after workers ratify new contract

    The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) will reopen its doors to the public next week after its workers voted to ratify a new agreement. The AGO has been closed since March 26, when 400 workers, represented by OPSEU/SEFPO Local 535, rejected the museum's initial offer and walked off the job. Earlier this week, the union announced that it reached a tentative deal with the AGO following a 16-hour bargaining. In a statement on Friday, OPSEU/SEFPO Local 535 revealed that 85 per cent of the workers...

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    Starbucks, Workers United made 'significant progress' in this week's contract talks

    Starbucks and the union plan to meet again in late May to keep working on the framework that will inform every single-store contract.

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    Target store in Woodbury on lockdown; SWAT team dispatched to ‘active scene’

    A SWAT team was dispatched Monday morning to the Target store in Woodbury Village for an “active scene,” police said. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, which investigates when law enforcement officers uses force, said the agency is responding to a use-of-force incident at the location in Woodbury on Monday afternoon. The store, located near Valley Creek and Interstate 494, was

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    Airbus workers at Quebec plant reject company's third contract offer

    Unionized workers at an Airbus assembly plant north of Montreal have rejected a contract offer for the third time. The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, which represents about 1,300 workers at the Mirabel, Que. facility, says nearly 70 per cent of its members voted against the agreement in principle. Union spokesman Éric Rancourt says negotiators thought they had reached a deal that would satisfy members, but the vote shows that wasn't the case. Earlier in...

  • Discogs and Record Store Day team up for a special international 'Afters' event

    Customers in participating regions can order online after Record Store Day

  • Google fired 28 workers who protested Israeli government cloud contract

    Google has fired 28 employees involved in protests against the company's "Project Nimbus" cloud contract with the Israeli government, according to an internal memo seen by The Verge. That follows the arrest and suspension of nine employees on April 16 and a previous firing related to the same project last month.  Some of the fired workers were forcibly removed after occupying the office of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian. Google head of global security Chris Rackow said that the company "will not...