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To labor cheers, Virginia OKs emergency anti-coronavirus safety standard
July 17, 2020And if the firms don’t obey, they’ll get hit in the pocketbook. The maximum Virginia fine will be $130,000 and there are no restrictions—including no restrictions on who is covered.
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Biden: Clean energy ‘must provide an opportunity to join a union’
July 17, 2020“Democrats will empower and stand with workers and communities who have put their health and lives on the line and who have been impacted by the changing energy market."
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Colorado wildfire causes over 1,000 evacuations
July 17, 2020Climate change has helped to increase the size and frequency of wildfires in the Western U.S. Of the more than 40,000 fires that burned from Colorado to California.
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Meatpackers hit for discrimination against workers of color in virus protection
July 16, 2020The nation’s big meatpackers, notably Tyson Foods and JBS, are racially discriminating against their predominantly brown, Black, and Asian front-line labor force.
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Cuba’s president and international coronavirus fighters talk about the pandemic
July 16, 2020The Cuban president arrived early, when the blazing summer sun was still just a gentle caress over the beautiful gardens of the La Pradera International Health Center, in the western part of the capital, Havana.
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