Tesla Workers United said employees were fired in ‘retaliation for union activity’ and to ‘discourage’ it.Several employees at a United States Tesla factory in Buffalo, New York were fired a day after launching union-organising efforts, according to the local labour group Tesla Workers United (TWU). The workers received an email Wednesday evening updating them on a new policy that prohibits them from recording workplace meetings without all participants’ permission, the group said in a release Thursday. It said such restrictions violate federal labour law and flout New York’s one-party consent law to record conversations. “We’re angry. This won’t slow us…
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The San Diego Padres and veteran starting pitcher Cole Hamels agreed to a minor-league deal on Thursday afternoon, per FanSided’s Robert Murray and MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand. .acf-block-preview .instagram-twitter-container width: 340px; margin: 0 auto; .acf-block-preview .instagram-twitter-container width: 340px; margin: 0 auto; The 39-year-old Hamels has only thrown in one game since 2020, pitching 3.1 innings for the Atlanta Braves before being forced to the IL in the pandemic-shortened season. He last signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2021 but was ruled out for the season after his shoulder flared up shortly after signing. Hamels has undergone surgeries on his left…
The Canadian women’s soccer team is going purple, a colour associated with gender equality, for its opening game against the U.S. at the SheBelieves Cup on Thursday. A team representative confirmed that the players, currently embroiled in a labour dispute with Canada Soccer, will arrive at Exploria Stadium in purple T-shirts which they plan to wear during the anthems. The Canadians will also wear purple tape on their wrists for the game. .acf-block-preview .instagram-twitter-container width: 340px; margin: 0 auto; The players wore their training tops inside-out at practice Wednesday to hide the Canada Soccer crest. Veteran midfielder Sophie Schmidt explained…
After launching a $400m appeal for Syrians, the United Nations has now appealed for funds for the Turkish relief operation.The United Nations has appealed for more than $1bn in funds for the Turkish earthquake relief operation, just two days after launching a $400m appeal for Syrians. UN aid chief Martin Griffiths, who visited Turkey last week, said on Thursday that the people have “experienced unspeakable heartache”, adding: “We must stand with them in their darkest hour and ensure they receive the support they need.” The February 6 earthquake has so far killed at least 36,187 in southern Turkey, while authorities…
Cheltenham Racecourse will provide coaches for racegoers after the RMT announced strike action during this year’s festival. Cheltenham has partnered with National Express to ensure people can attend the race weekend. Earlier on Thursday, the RMT announced industrial action on March 16, which is St Patrick’s Day at the festival and March 18, the day after the festival finishes.National Rail will be offering increased coach services directly to Cheltenham Racecourse from March 15-17, with services departing from London, Birmingham, Bristol and Cardiff.Ian Renton, managing director at the Jockey Club Racecourses (West), said: “Every year, a large number of racegoers rely…
Los Angeles, California – The United States military shot down a flurry of objects this month: a large object it identified as a Chinese surveillance balloon followed by three smaller objects that the government said might be “benign”. The airborne objects were drifting through airspace increasingly crowded with commercial and amateur balloons, drones and possible aerial surveillance craft belonging to adversaries. Their rising numbers pose a challenge to aviators and government agencies. Experts say that while heavy commercial balloons must meet strict Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations, lighter amateur balloons are exempt from most rules, and the FAA might not…
Bab al-Hawa, Syria – Hundreds of Syrian refugees in Turkey who survived last week’s earthquakes are returning to their war-torn homeland after once again losing everything. Turkish authorities have announced the opening of border crossings for Syrians after the February 6 quakes, which killed tens of thousands of people. Mohamad al-Sawad, 69, is a refugee from Halfaya in the northern Syrian countryside. He has been living in the town of Belen for 11 years near the city of Iskenderun in Turkey’s Hatay province. Al Jazeera spoke to him as he entered Syria through the Bab al-Hawa border crossing after he…
Shortly before being elected leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) in late 2014, Nicola Sturgeon embarked on a rock star-style tour of Scotland, appearing in front of packed audiences around the country, usually illuminated on stage by a row of blazing lights. On Wednesday morning, in the more sedate Georgian surroundings of Bute House, the Scottish first minister’s official residence in Edinburgh, Sturgeon announced her decision to resign as leader of the SNP and head of Scotland’s semi-autonomous government at Holyrood. The contrast between those two moments – one brash and celebratory, the other somber and unexpected – is…
The agreement would provide for monitoring mechanisms designed to prevent war in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.Armenia has presented Azerbaijan with a project for a full peace treaty to end the decades-long dispute over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said. The two former Soviet republics have been locked in a state of conflict over the mountainous area, which lies in Azerbaijan but whose population is largely Armenian. An agreement would provide for monitoring mechanisms by both sides to prevent breaches of the peace deal, said Pashinyan. He told a cabinet meeting on Thursday that Yerevan had completed “another stage of…
North Korea has increased its stockpile of weapons-grade plutonium from 50kg to 70kg, South Korea’s new defence paper estimates.South Korea has released its latest defence white paper in which it described North Korea as an “enemy” and reports that Pyongyang has increased its stockpile of weapons-grade plutonium by an estimated 40 percent. The defence paper published on Thursday offered a glimpse into North Korea’s growing number of nuclear weapons and missile stockpiles, as well as its conventional military capabilities, with an estimated North Korean troop strength of 1.28 million active-duty personnel. North Korea has continued reprocessing spent fuel from its…