Новости за 09.07.2021

The strike takes place as Volvo Trucks workers in Virginia, United States vote on a new contract worked out between the United Auto Workers union and Volvo management.

The US Defense Department has canceled the cloud computing solicitation known as JEDI and replaced it with a request for a more advanced IT platform that will enable imperialist warfare to be fought with artificial intelligence and unprecedented information gathering and processing power.

In a remarkable display of callousness, the NEA’s convention concealed every issue of substance facing educators, including work-related COVID-19 infections and deaths, while toeing the line of the Democratic Party on all fronts.

The “victory” at the University of Queensland consisted of the NTEU convincing five academics to quit their jobs in order to satisfy the cost-cutting demands of management.

On Wednesday, 21 of the world’s leading experts on the origins of infectious diseases published a preprint paper demolishing the conspiracy theory promoted by the Biden administration and the US media that COVID-19 was a man-made virus.

Families have picketed the road to Pike River coal mine, demanding that the Labour government reverse its plan to end the underground investigation into the 2010 disaster, which killed 29 people.

The stand taken by Volvo workers “is a beacon of light for all workers seeking to break out of the isolation imposed by the unions everywhere.”

The brutal conditions striking Frito-Lay workers are fighting against are the very ones agreed to by the BCTGM Local 218 union over decades, posing the necessity of a new organization for workers to take their struggle forward.

The reception for Prince Khalid bin Salman, a key accomplice in the savage assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, lays bare the hypocrisy of Biden’s “human rights” imperialism.

The Sri Lankan Action Committee for the Defence of Freedom of Art and Expression is holding a public online meeting and discussion to free poet Ahnaf Jazeem.

No Sudden Move is set in Detroit in 1954. To what extent the film, a gangster drama with only passing reference to the auto industry, has something meaningful to say about the city and its subsequent decline is another matter.

Authorities announced yesterday that the operation was being recategorized from a “search-and-rescue mission” to a “recovery effort,” meaning that there was little to no possibility of finding survivors in the rubble.

As a result of previous agreements struck by the Australian Education Union, education support staff face insecure employment, continued funding cuts and growing numbers of disadvantaged students.

While Ukraine and NATO often declare that their military exercises are “defensive” in nature, “Cossack Mace” differs in that it openly states that its forces are practicing for an offensive.

The cuts are driven by a deep-rooted assault on higher education. The ruling class views expanded access to science and culture as an intolerable encroachment on the wealth of the oligarchy.

Cases of COVID-19 across the US are climbing again, specifically across the Southeast and portions of the Midwest, where vaccination rates are relatively low in comparison to the national average.

USW officials have tried to explain away their support for a concessions-filled tentative agreement with lies, including the claim they had “no choice” but to endorse it.

Volvo Trucks management made a last-ditch effort Thursday to bully workers into accepting a six-year labor agreement worked out with the United Auto Workers (UAW).

The Democratic Party leadership has largely dropped efforts, either in Congress or the courts, to overturn restrictive new state laws.

Spanish unions sell out bank workers’ strike, agree 6,452 job losses at CaixaBank; warning selective strikes continue in German retail and mail order sector; driver and vehicle registration staff at UK centre in Wales continue stoppages ongoing since April over Covid safety; strike by 25,000 Tunisian finance workers over pay and conditions

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HFC is pleased to announce a new alliance with Arizona State University (ASU) to provide students a seamless transfer experience with the MyPath2ASU™ program.

Haiti hasn’t vaccinated a single person yet. Poverty and vaccine hesitancy don’t help, but political instability will make everything worse

With the draws for the early Rounds of the Emirates FA Cup and Buildbase FA Vase now revealed, Royal Wootton Bassett Town will first have to overcome a pair of tough tests if they are to come close to matching the record-equalling success they had in both competitions in 2020-21.