Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., leaves the U.S. Capitol after filing a motion to remove House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., from office on Friday, March 22, 2024. Tom Williams | CQ Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she will let her fellow House Republicans hear her constituents’ opinions before deciding…
In a landmark victory for organized labor, workers at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee voted overwhelmingly to join the United Automobile Workers union, becoming the first non-union auto plant in a Southern state to do so. The company said in a statement late Friday that the union won 2,628 votes to 985 against in a…
Last fall, the United Automobile Workers union won major wage increases at Detroit automakers, and the impact quickly spread to nonunion auto plants throughout the South. Afterwards, Toyota, Honda, Volkswagen, Nissan, Hyundai and Tesla increased wages for their own hourly workers in the United States, none of whom are unionized. On production lines in Alabama,…
Workers at a Mercedes-Benz factory in Alabama have asked federal officials to vote on whether they should join the United Automobile Workers, the union said Friday. This is a step forward in their efforts to organize workers in auto factories in the South. The union is trying to build on momentum from contracts it won…
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield votes on a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza during a United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian issue, at the UN -Voice Headquarters New York on March 25, 2024. Angela Weiss | Afp | Getty Images…
Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, said in an interview published Sunday that she would not vote for former President Donald J. Trump. She also did not rule out leaving the Republican Party. In the interview Ms. Murkowski gave to CNN, she said she would “absolutely not” support Mr. Trump in the November general election….
In Tuesday night’s results in Michigan, about one in eight Democrats voted “non-committal” in the Democratic primary, a protest against the Biden administration’s policies toward Israel and the war in Gaza. In some predominantly Arab-American districts in Dearborn, about three in four Democrats voted “non-binding” in protest. It’s not entirely unusual for one in eight…
Signage is seen at the Federal Communications Commission headquarters in Washington, DC Andrew Kelly | Reuters WASHINGTON – A federal consumer watchdog said Wednesday that it will vote on rules requiring cable and satellite providers to display a “flat rate” for video programming on consumer bills and promotional materials. The Federal Communications Commission’s final rules…
Campaign posters for Nawaz Sharif, former Prime Minister of Pakistan, along a street ahead of Pakistan’s national election in Lahore, Pakistan, on Friday, February 2, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Pakistan’s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday declared victory in the country’s 2024 general election, which many Pakistanis and human rights groups…
