'UAW All the Way': Ohio EV Plant Workers Hail Historic Contract Victory UAW Local 1112 members at Ultium Cells' Lordstown, Ohio facility approved their new local contract by 98% on Sunday. Under the contract, production workers will be paid $35 an hour by October 2027. Sunday's vote came after the workers at the plant—a joint venture between GM and South Korea-based LG Energy Solution—voted in December to unionize.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ultium-lordstownDisney's feud with DeSantis is over — and it's donating to Republicans again Since ending its feud with Florida's governor, Ron DeSantis, Disney has wasted no time donating to Republicans again. The Walt Disney Comany gave more than $87,000 worth of in-kind, or nonmonetary, donations to political committees, including Republican lawmakers, in the months of April and May, the Orlando Sentinel reported. That's an about-face for the House of Mouse, which had paused political donations as it brawled with DeSantis.
https://www.businessinsider.com/disney-again-donating-republicans-ending-feud-desantis-2024-6Judge orders railway to pay Washington tribe nearly $400 million for trespassing with oil trainsU.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik initially ruled last year that the railway deliberately violated the terms of a 1991 easement with the Swinomish Tribe north of Seattle that allows trains to carry no more than 25 cars per day. The judge held a trial earlier this month to determine how much in profits BNSF made through trespassing from 2012 to 2021 and how much it should be required to disgorge.
https://apnews.com/article/swinomish-tribe-oil-train-trespassing-779e51b8abc5970580ff940655f55288Two key Democrats in US Congress approve major arms sale to Israel, Washington Post reportsRepresentative Gregory Meeks and Senator Ben Cardin have signed off on the deal under heavy pressure from the Biden administration after the two lawmakers had for months held up th
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