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UAW reaches agreement on pay and safety at electric vehicle battery plant

UAW reaches agreement on pay and safety at electric vehicle battery plant

Associated media - Linked media GM and Ultium released statements saying they were pleased with the deal. The union has said it wants to use the Ultium Cells contract as a model to negotiate local deals at other battery plants that GM and its Detroit rivals are building. GM began production this year at a battery plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee, and has another under construction in Lansing, Michigan. Ford Motor plans two battery plants in Kentucky, one in Tennessee and one in Michigan. Stellantis, the maker of Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge and Ram vehicles, plans two battery plants in Indiana.…
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John Jaso gave up baseball to enjoy life on a boat

John Jaso gave up baseball to enjoy life on a boat

Related media - Connected media He also took several trips to Europe, discovering a passion for exploring his father’s ancestral land in the Basque Country in northern Spain. And he drove a camper van around Australia and Indonesia. But the boat was his greatest pleasure. “I want my life to be simple, and there’s nothing simpler than being on a sailboat,” she said. “You treat the boat well and it treats you well. That’s all. Before the pandemic, the Roaming Rose docked in Turks and Caicos. Due to travel restrictions, he was stuck there for almost two years. When he…
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What weapons is North Korea accused of supplying to Russia?

What weapons is North Korea accused of supplying to Russia?

Related media - Connected media If filled with 152-millimeter artillery shells, the containers could carry up to three million shells, South Korea’s defense minister said. Or, if filled with 122-millimeter rockets, they could hold more than half a million shells . They might even have contained a mix of both weapons, he said. In his latest estimate, Minister Shin Wok-sik last week put the number of containers shipped from North Korea to Russia at 10,000. Additionally, the White House said in January that Russia had begun firing ballistic missiles made in North Korea. Arms control experts said fragments of the…
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Amazon fined nearly  million over warehouse labor quotas

Amazon fined nearly $6 million over warehouse labor quotas

Linked media - Linked media An Amazon spokesperson said in a statement that the company is appealing the sanctions and denied that the company used “fixed quotas.” Spokeswoman Maureen Lynch Vogel said “individual performance is evaluated over an extended period of time, relative to the performance of the entire site team” and that workers can “review their performance whenever they wish.” . California law also prohibits quotas that interfere with employees’ ability to take mandatory breaks or use the bathroom, or that prevent employers from following state health and safety laws. Experts said the law was among the first in…
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Putin arrives in North Korea as war in Ukraine redefines ties with Kim

Putin arrives in North Korea as war in Ukraine redefines ties with Kim

Related media - Related media Among other things, the conflict has given Pyongyang a rare opportunity to evaluate the performance of its missiles in combat and potentially refine their design. North Korea would also welcome greater access to sophisticated Russian military technology, including its vast knowledge of satellites. Two months after Kim’s visit to Russia last year, North Korea put its first military reconnaissance satellite into orbit, a launch that South Korean officials say was aided by technological assistance from Moscow. Russia, which has the world’s largest arsenal of nuclear weapons and one of the most sophisticated submarine programs, has…
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Elon Musk got 72% in Tesla shareholder vote on pay

Elon Musk got 72% in Tesla shareholder vote on pay

Connected media - Related media With the pay package, Musk would own 20.5% of Tesla, up from about 13%. He has said he would like a 25% stake, stressing in January that it would be “enough to be influential, but not so much that it can’t be overthrown.” If he didn’t get such a large stake, he said, “he would rather build products outside of Tesla.” Even after this week’s rally, Tesla shares are down more than 20% this year, versus a 14% gain in the broader stock market. The company remains by far the most valuable auto company, with…
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Disney’s Splash Mountain will reopen with a Princess Tiana theme

Disney’s Splash Mountain will reopen with a Princess Tiana theme

Related media - Associated media Tiana’s Bayou Adventure uses the same trails as Splash Mountain, and riders still ride in vehicles made to look like hollowed-out logs. But everything else has been redesigned. Instead of a suspenseful story involving Br’er Rabbit being thrown into a field of brambles, the new attraction focuses on a Mardi Gras party: Tiana and her friend Louis, a trumpet-playing alligator, are at the search for creatures to form a band. Midway through the film, the cheerful Mama Odie, a voodoo queen in “The Princess and the Frog” and now a “fairy godmother of the bayou,”…
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Morrie Markoff, considered the oldest man in the United States, dies at 110

Morrie Markoff, considered the oldest man in the United States, dies at 110

Connected media - Connected media As of April, the world’s oldest living man is believed to be England’s John Alfred Tinniswood at 111, according to Guinness World Records. (Guinness lists María Branyas Morera, a California native living in Spain, as the world’s oldest woman, at 117.) When Mr. Markoff heard the news of his rise to the top of the list, “he just smiled and said, ‘Well, someone has to be there,'” his daughter said in an interview. He stood out not only for his longevity but also for his lucidity unusual for his age. Until his final months, she…
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Blinken defines some Hamas changes to the ceasefire proposal as “unacceptable”.

Blinken defines some Hamas changes to the ceasefire proposal as “unacceptable”.

Linked media - Connected media A United Nations commission investigating the October 7 attacks on Israel and the resulting conflict in Gaza accused both Palestinian armed groups and Israel of committing war crimes, and the commission said Israel’s conduct of the war included crimes against humanity.In a report released Wednesday, the three-person commission — led by Navi Pillay, a former U.N. human rights chief — provided the U.N.’s most detailed examination yet of the events since Oct. 7. The report itself does not entail any sanctions. , but presents a legal analysis of actions in the Gaza conflict that is…
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