health and safety
Uber, Lyft drivers keep up the pressure: ‘We are employees, not contractors’
May 13, 2020Labor researchers calculate the two companies together owe more than $400 to California's state unemployment system.
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Judge’s ruling puts gold mine project in eastern Idaho on pause
May 12, 2020“The area is an important site for grizzly bears and other wildlife, especially wildlife that needs to migrate from Yellowstone to other parts of the Rockies."
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The reason Smithfield decided to slaughter workers along with the hogs
May 8, 2020Coronavirus is riding the waves of the capitalist economy. It’s a cruel, cold-blooded system that hurls human bodies into the maw of a ravenous virus.
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Trump administration kills CDC reopening guidelines, pushes responsibility onto states
May 7, 2020This approach matches Trump’s clai he isn’t responsible for the country’s lackluster testing efforts and his description of the federal government as a “supplier of last resort" for states.
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Activists file new challenge to proposed Twin Metals mine
May 6, 2020Opponents of a proposed copper-nickel mine in northeastern Minnesota sued Wednesday to challenge the federal government’s renewal of Twin Metals’ mineral rights leases.
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