Deere Union Members Reject Second Management Offer; Key Demands Include Greater Workplace Say
Deere union members at 12 of 14 factories put the screws on management by rejecting their latest offer.
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War on Cash: NYC Enforces its Cashless Business Ban
NYC sides with those who want to use cash and enforces its cashless business ban, hitting ice cream shop Van Leeuwen with $12000 in fines.
Read more...IM Doc on Medication/Medical Supply Shortages and Political Backlash
Key parts of the medical industry in the US are being held together with duct tape and bailng wire. What happens if the stresses get worse?
Read more...“Why I Still Believe Covid-19 Could Not Have Originated in a Lab”
Lab escape theories cannot clearly account for a virus that has evolved for human-to-human transmissibility.
Read more...In Maine, Vaccine Mandate for EMTs Stresses Small-Town Ambulance Crews
How Maine’s vaccine-only mandate is thinning staffing of already stressed emergency services.
Read more...On the Primacy of the Physician-Patient Relationship, From an Unlikely Source – The Attorney General of Nebraska
On the slippery slope of curtailing a doctor’s ability to treat his patient.
Read more...Supply Chain Shortages and Inflation: How Bad Will the Disruption Become?
How the Biden Adminstration is if anything making the current supply chain mess worse.
Read more...Officials Double Down on “Let ‘Er Rip” Strategy, Placing Undue Faith in Vaccines as Regions With High Vaccinations Suffer Infection Spikes
Public health officials are again placing too much faith in vaccines as they end key international travel restrictions.
Read more...The John Deere Strike: Organized Labor’s Turning Point?
Will the Deere strike become a watershed event, a PATCO in reverse?
Read more...Insurance Focused on Virtual Visits? The Pros and Cons of a New Twist in Health Plans
The pandemic has made patients more comfortable with telemedicine for doctor visits. Insurers are betting that some patients will now embrace new types of health coverage that encourages video visits — or outright insists on them.
Read more...Swimming With Sharks in the Maldives
Maldivians are changing their attitudes towards sharks, sparking a tourism boom. Tourists bring plastic, creating a waste disposal problem.
Read more...‘Waive the Patents’: Moderna Still Refuses to Share Covid-19 Vaccine Recipe
Modern refuses to share vaccine recipe and acts as if they have absolutely no responsibility beyond maximizing their return on investment.
Read more...Sleep and the Covid-19 Pandemic
An unsystematic survey of the effect of SARS-COV-2, the virus, on sleeping individuals; and the effect of COVID-19, the disease, on populations.
Read more...Did Labor Action Over Vaccine Mandates Compel Southwest to Cancel Thousands of Flights?
The strange story of Southwest’s operational collapse this weekend
Read more...Just Keeps Getting Worse: Services Trade Surplus, the American Dream-Not-Come-True, Worst in 10 Years. Imports Worst Ever. Trade Deficit Worst Ever
Repeat after me: trade deficits = exporting jobs. The latest results confirm how crappy US policies are.
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