From healthcare to Hollywood, workers are demanding higher wages, fighting cuts and seeking better safety and conditions
Tens of thousands of workers around the US could go on strike in the coming weeks in what would be the largest wave of labor unrest since a series of teacher strikes in 2018 and 2019, which won major victories and gave the American labor movement a significant boost.
Ship's anchor among possible causes of leak, says head of Amplify Energy, which operates pipeline
A person stands near the shore at Huntington State Beach in California on Sunday after a major oil spill that sent an estimated 572,800 litres of heavy crude into the ocean waters. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall off the coast of Louisiana, triggering a slow-moving disaster as floodwaters breached the levees around New Orleans. Nearly 2,000 people were killed over several weeks, hundreds of thousands of homes were destroyed, and the city was left in ruins. Environmental scientists warned that Katrina was a taste of what was in store for the Gulf Coast region if climate change continued unchecked.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mary Taboniar went 15 months without a paycheck, thanks to the COVID pandemic. A housekeeper at the Hilton Hawaiian Village resort in Honolulu, the single mother of two saw her income completely vanish as the virus devastated the hospitality industry.
