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Beyond the sheer loss of life, long-term damage will be extraordinary, according to weather, industry and government officials.
Shannon Martinez, who spent five years as a neo-Nazi skinhead, says leaving that way of life was like quitting a drug addiction.
Hurricane Irma is gaining strength and heading westward as Texas and the Gulf Coast are recovering from Harvey.
The bones and skull of a triceratops were found last Friday in Colorado at the construction site of a new public safety building.
The bones and skull of a triceratops were found last Friday in Colorado at the construction site of a new public safety building.
Trumka: Unions Are Needed Now More Than Ever
Michael Bonfigli/The Christian Science Monitor
This week, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka was the guest at the Christian Science Monitor breakfast, where he explained the importance of the union advantage, both for union members and for all working people.
In his opening remarks, Trumka said:
Simply put, union workers, empowered by the freedom to negotiate with employers—do better on every single economic benchmark. Union workers earn substantially more money. Union contracts help achieve equal pay and protection from discrimination. Union workplaces are safer. Union workers have better access to health care and a pension.
And here is the good news: The popularity of unions is rising. A Pew survey shows 60% of Americans support unions and that number is even higher among millennials. And in our Labor Day poll, a majority of working people said they would vote to join a union tomorrow if given the opportunity.
So let’s give them that chance—free from the employer interference and intimidation that has become all too common.
Whether it’s raising wages...
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The ruling appears to be the first to address the question of whether being labeled as transgender is sufficiently harmful to one's reputation to be libelous.
The ruling appears to be the first to address the question of whether being labeled as transgender is sufficiently harmful to one's reputation to be libelous.
