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Sept 20 (Reuters) – AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP (AZN.L) has been sued in the U.S. by a former senior director who claims the drugmaker refused to pay her nearly $130,000 in promised bonuses and stock options because she worked from home full-time.
A dramatic brawl on the Montgomery, Alabama, riverfront pitted people standing up for a Black riverboat worker against a group of white people who began beating him for telling them to move their illegally parked pontoon. The Saturday night fight, which was captured in multiple videos posted to social media, appeared to unfold largely along […]
Screenwriters first went on strike in early May after talks between their union and employers collapsed, ultimately freezing production in Hollywood. The 11,500 screenwriters represented by WGA are joined by 160,000 actors also on strike. But it’s not just actors and writers on the picket line this summer: 3,000 workers went on strike at 150 Starbucks […]
Donna Hansbrough, 68, attempted to stop a gang of shoplifters and was left with a bruised face The long time employee of Lowes was fired for violating company policy that state’s employees who witness shoplifting must not intervene Hansbrough said she ‘loved’ her job but must now look for new employment A Lowe’s worker has been […]
Federal law enforcement agents in the U.S. have arrested a Los Angeles County man wanted by Mexican authorities in connection with the slayings of at least three Tijuana sex workers, according to officials in both countries. Bryant Rivera, a 30-year-old Downey resident, is charged in Baja California with at least one count of femicide and […]
Washington, DC(CNN) Compensation for US workers picked up in the first three months of the year, showing that a major source of inflationary pressure persists. The Employment Cost Index, released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, showed that workers were paid 1.2% more in wages and benefits in the first quarter from the prior […]
March 28 (Reuters) – Walmart Inc (WMT.N) has been sued by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which on Tuesday accused the largest U.S. retailer of illegally firing a North Carolina deli worker with Crohn’s disease.
A TikToker recorded themselves confronting a restaurant hostess for the seating arrangement at an Olive Garden. User Shon (@shonti2funny) says that customers were being grouped by the color of their skin in the location, and asked the hostess why black customers were seated in one area of the restaurant away from other diners with a […]
The US government sued Exxon Mobil Corp. for racial discrimination against a Black employee after the company allegedly failed to adequately respond to the appearance of five hangman’s nooses at a Louisiana petrochemical plant over several years. Exxon “failed to take prompt measures reasonably calculated to end the harassment,” the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission […]
Commentary: Labor union calls for worker protections in final cannabis bill
Black Hot Fire Network
April 3, 2023
Workers tend to plants in a grow room at a medical marijuana facility in Richmond, Virginia. Photo by Ned Oliver/Virginia Mercury. By Ademola Oyefeso The writer is director of the Legislative and Political Action Department at United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, the largest private sector union in the United States. Last week, while […]