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.
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck: The skills shortage and inflation – why ECB leaders and German immigration policy are completely off the mark
Sometimes a very simple statement can tell you abruptly how a society lies to itself in order to avoid unpleasant contexts. So it is with inflation – and so it is with unemployment. One year […]
EU politics
Yiannis Βaboulias: “Orientalising” Greece in the international press and how we’re missing the coming threat.
This is a pan-European problem, unfortunatley reported in a national perspective. Read here
Climate Crisis
Climate Home News: Germany, Italy, Poland snub call for net-zero carbon EU by 2050
Angela Merkel is still hailed as the “Environment Chancellor” in mainstream media. Merkel and the German political elite have little regard for the environment. While Germans meticulously sort the rubbish and buy organic food, their […]
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