A day in the life of an apprentice: Pablo at the Hartford
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Greece to repay chunk of bailout debt early
Athens, Greece — Greece will make an early repayment of 5 billion euros ($5.3 billion) in bailout-era debt in 2025, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told a banking conference in Athens on Monday, describing the move as a signal of the…
Zambia, Zimbabwe seek move to wind, solar to avert power shortages
VICTORIA FALLS, ZIMBABWE — Zimbabwe and Zambia are holding a summit this week in Victoria Falls to identify ways to attract investors for energy projects and development. The talks come as the neighbors experience their worst recorded…
A tale of two strikes
A tale of two strikes
Workers at the Port of Baltimore.
What do symphony musicians and longshoremen have in common? At first blush you might say “not much.” But if you said that this fall, you would have been wrong.…
Public confidence in unions soars
Public confidence in unions soars
Data courtesy of Gallup. Graphic produced by the U.S. Department of Labor.
A recent Gallup poll revealedthat disapproval of labor unions has fallen to 23%, the lowest level in 57 years,…
Take advantage of your open enrollment period to get the coverage you need
Take advantage of your open enrollment period to get the coverage you need
When your open enrollment period for your job-based health, dental, vision and other coverage begins, it’s important to take a look at your options and…
Los Angeles Holocaust Museum installs freight car that transported Jews to camps
The Holocaust Museum LA recently installed a new exhibit on its roof: a German-made freight car that was used to deport Jews across Nazi-occupied Europe to the Majdanek concentration camp near Lublin, Poland. From Los Angeles, Angelina…
Pentagon rejects Kremlin criticism of US-fueled escalation in Ukraine
Pentagon — The Pentagon dismissed a new round of Russian accusations that the United States is pushing the war in Ukraine into ever more dangerous territory as “reckless” rhetoric, calling out Moscow and its allies for escalating tensions.…
For Ukraine, US approval of long-range missiles marks strategic shift
Warsaw — Many in Ukraine see the Biden administration’s decision to allow Ukraine to use U.S.-supplied long-range missiles to strike targets inside Russian territory as a turning point in the war but welcome it with a mix of gratitude and…