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03/10/23
Author: 
Mark Gruenberg
Caroline Lucas, executive director of the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, along with workers employed by the healthcare giant. 75,000 or more of them could be on strike starting Oct. 4. | Courtesy of Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions

Oct. 2, 2023

KENSINGTON, Md.—Linda Bridges, president of Office and Professional Employees Local 2, has some of her Kaiser Permanente clinic union members “sleeping in their cars.”

That’s because even with their jobs at Kaiser clinics in the D.C. suburb of Kensington, Md., plus second jobs after that, they can’t afford rent.

“They drive to work. Then they drive to their second jobs. Then they sleep in their cars” and report to their Kaiser posts again, Bridges explains.

02/10/23
Author: 
John Helmer, Moscow
KICK START OR KICK OVER — CAN THE US DEFEAT RUSSIA IN THE LITHIUM BATTERY WAR?

Sept. 28, 2023

In January of this year the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported the reserves of the nine leading countries in the world which mine lithium, the new fuel to power electric batteries. Chile led, followed by Australia, Argentina, China, and the US which claims to have one million tonnes. Russia was left out of the USGS chart.

02/10/23
Author: 
Adam D.K. King
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a deal Thursday that will give fast-food workers a pay bump in 2024. LA Times

2 Oct 2023 

It’s these types of incremental reforms that build the basis from which workers can continue the fight for more.

Back in August 2022, I wrote about a newly passed law in California that would create a sector-wide labour-management council giving fast food workers the right to bargain over wages and standards in their industry. At the time, myself and many others considered the law a significant victory.

01/10/23
Author: 
Vipal Monga
Flying over the Hudson Bay Lowlands to the Ring of Fire in Northern Ontario.

Sept. 28, 2023

$67 Billion of Rare Minerals Is Buried Under One of the World’s Biggest Carbon Sinks

A fight is brewing in Canada about how, or whether, to dig out materials essential for EV batteries that lie deep beneath vast peat bogs

The pace of the global transition to electric vehicles depends on the future of a remote region in Canada known as the Ring of Fire.

29/09/23
Author: 
Michael Wilson and Hurubie Meko
flooding in New York

Sept.29, 2023

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