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A Washington State woman who monitors police scanners live-tweeted a fatal car wreck Wednesday, growing increasingly frantic as she began to suspect that the victim was her own husband.Caran Johnson, who live-tweets police activity in Vancouver, Wash.
Thousands of fast-food workers in more than 100 cities across the country are on strike today for a living wage of $15 an hour and the right to join a union. The strikes kicked off in the predawn hours on the East Coast and are rolling across America all day long.
On Monday, Dec. 9, EconomyInCrisis.org is hosting a seminar, "Do We Need Fast Track/Trade Promotion Authority?" at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The discussion will be led by R. Thomas Buffenbarger, president of the Machinists (IAM), and Lori Wallach, director of Global Trade Watch for Public Citizen. The event begins at 8:30 a.m. and goes to 11 a.m. Complimentary breakfast will be provided at 8 a.m.Wallach also will be at the AFL-CIO at noon for a book club discussion. You can RSVP here.
Using a crossbow and arrows, a Florida man shot his wife and teenage son dead in their Miami-area home and drove hundreds of miles north to Tallahassee and wounded his elder son. He then slit his own throat in a hotel room, police said.
An arctic blast that threatens 32 million will knock out power by coating parts of the South and Midwest with ice and send temperatures sinking by as much as 50 degrees Thursday, forecasters warned.
"I hate being unemployed. It is a waste of my abilities," says Stan Osnowitz of Baltimore, 67, a journeyman wireman electrician. Even with the recession, Osnowitz was able to find work on a three-year job that included overtime pay. But a five-month job he held earlier this year ended July 3, and now unemployment benefits are his only income. His savings already have been exhausted. Osnowitz is one of the people who testified at a House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee today to address the need for extending the Emergency Unemployment Compensation program, which will run out by the end of the year without any action from Congress.
Wildlife rescue teams will continue their push to save the more than 40 pilot whales stranded in shallow waters off Florida's Gulf Coast on Thursday morning, according to park officials.
The engineer who drove the New York commuter train that took a curve at 82 mph and flew off the tracks, killing four people, has been suspended without pay since the crash, a spokeswoman for the transit authority said Thursday.
Those of us in the labor movement are quite aware of the benefits that apprenticeship programs bring to workers—after all union apprenticeship programs train about 450,000 mostly young workers every year. But a new report from the Center for American Progress finds:Apprenticeships are not a familiar concept to many Americans, but expanding the use of this highly effective training model can help our nation meet the demand for skilled workers, create pathways to well-paying careers for unemployed young workers, and give American businesses a competitive edge in the global marketplace.
An arctic blast which threatens 32 million people could knock out power by coating parts of the South and Midwest with ice and send temperatures sinking by as much as 50 degrees Thursday, forecasters warned.
