Railroad workers have reached a new tentative union contract with rail companies, averting a potential strike set to start on Friday that could have shut down rail service across the United States. The deal, which has yet to be released in writing and ratified by union members, is said to grant one paid sick day to workers, allow workers to attend medical appointments without being subject to attendance policies, and give a “semblance of a schedule” to rail workers, who are currently on call to work 24/7.
EU politics
The Observer: The Observer view on the shambolic way universities are run
In Britain academics are striking to defend their pensions. Pensions are just one of the many targets of neo-liberal policy. Executives at British Universities, whose financing seems to increasingly concentrate on business than education, have […]
Corruption
Client Earth: Client Earth launches legal action to avert another Dieselgate
Once again the European Union demonstrates that commerce and the money that the car industry is raining upon political parties is more important than the health of its citizens. Once again it is the citizens […]
EU politics
Medecins Sans Frontieres: Samos: Where Europe lost its values and moral responsibility
A new prison-like camp on the Greek island of Samos marks a dangerous turn of European migration policy. Read here A Greek national flag and a European Union flag flutter at a newly inaugurated closed-type […]
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