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In the early hours of Thursday morning, the White House announced a tentative agreement between the major rail carriers and the remaining holdout unions, Teamsters’ Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) and the Transportation Division of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail, and Transportation Workers (SMART-TD).
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Though not all details have been released, it appears that the rail unions made limited but meaningful gains on some key issues, while holding the line on others.
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Two-person crews are protected in this agreement, a critical safety issue that the carriers have been trying to attack.
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In fact, the rail carriers are profiting more than ever as they push their workers to the breaking point.
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Over the last week, the US has been jolted into reckoning with the profound implications of a national freight railroad worker strike.
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While that may sound like a lot, that figure is less than 3.5 percent of their massive annual profits.
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Clearly the upper echelons of the state haven’t forgotten this, as President Biden’s intense involvement in brokering a settlement demonstrates.
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We don’t know where or how far all this energy will go, but it’s clear that the question of labour will dominate politics in the years to come.
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For many rail workers this is not simply another contract; it could determine whether they decide to stay in the industry altogether or not.
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Workers would have a 24 percent wage increase by 2024, including an immediate 14 percent raise.
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These recent events have reinforced a fundamental truth about US economic life.
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Importantly, this development is happening both among unionised workers and unorganised workers forming unions.
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The proposed agreement includes the best wage increases for rail workers in over forty years.
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In a letter from SMART to Congressional leadership last week, the union said, ‘The railroads have taken away our members’ ability to be a worthy parent and dependable spouse, and they have eliminated any realistic means for an employee to receive medical services.’
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As more details come out, it is now up to the rank and file to discuss the agreement and cast their vote.
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Shippers are reporting more delays and higher rates in 2022 than the previous two years.
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Railroad workers have reminded us that the issue of work in the US is too explosive to ignore. | SUBJ | false |
Though some journalists with knowledge of the rail industry or the labour movement have been sounding the alarm for months, the last few days have seen mainstream media outlets publish increasingly frantic articles about the potential for a strike.
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This panicked response from political elites and media institutions was not completely unfounded; a rail strike would indeed have caused a crisis in our supply chain and the general economy.
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As recent events revealed, a strike of even just some of a relatively small number (115,000) of rail workers could completely upend the economy and provoke a political crisis.
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This could cause more companies to ship goods by truck, which in turn could lead to a downward spiral in the rail industry with further cuts to an already beleaguered workforce.
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The union also managed to win no increases to health care co-pays and deductibles, a key sticking point that was underreported in the media.
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Rail workers have no sick days and a very limited amount of paid time off, making the job increasingly unsustainable for any kind of family life.
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The Biden administration is breathing a (perhaps temporary) sigh of relief, as it pulled out all the stops to avert a strike.
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During the ‘Striketober’ of late 2021, rank and file workers at companies like Kellogg’s and John Deere voted down substandard agreements and won better contracts in the end by doing so.
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Momentum is already building for the highly anticipated United Parcel Service (UPS) contract fight in the summer of 2023.
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While it’s misguided to put all focus or hope onto one section of the working class, we can’t ignore this immense latent power that logistics workers possess.
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International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) workers had the attention of the country as they almost went on strike over unsustainable work schedules, similar to the rail labour dispute.
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The agreement still needs to be ratified by members, a process that will play out over the next few weeks.
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This is a far cry from the rail unions’ original demand of fifteen paid sick days.
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Instead of investing these profits in its workers or rail infrastructure, the carriers have spent $196 billion on stock buybacks since 2010.
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In the US, freight railroad workers have been pushed to breaking point while the rail carriers profit more than ever – and while a strike was averted in the early hours of Thursday morning, it isn't off the table.
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Workers would be granted only one single paid sick day.
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White House aides worked to create contingency plans for the supply chain in the event of a strike.
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Republicans attempted to pass a resolution that would have enabled Congress to force workers to accept a deal, which was fortunately blocked by (who else) Senator Bernie Sanders.
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Even as fewer things are manufactured in this country, a whole lot of products are transported and warehoused here.
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The adoption of precision schedule railroading has dramatically reduced the number of workers, while delivering immense gains to Wall Street.
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Zooming out to a broader view, this labour dispute is one more sign of a growing restlessness and combativity among US workers.
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Trucking and shipping companies have been slowly recovering from supply chain issues caused by Covid-19, but things have gotten worse in rail.
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On paid time off and sick days, perhaps the most defining issue of the dispute, the gains are more ambiguous.
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The tentative agreement allows workers to take some unpaid sick days without losing attendance points, though it still is not known exactly how many.
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As Bernie Sanders pointed out during his testimony in Congress, it would cost the rail carriers a total of $688 million per year to fulfill this demand.
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Biden himself got personally involved and phoned in to the negotiations that Labour Secretary Marty Walsh convened.
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More recently, unexpected organising has taken place at high-profile companies like Amazon, Starbucks, and Chipotle.
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Regardless of whether this tentative agreement is approved or not, deep issues with the rail system will remain.
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Given the combative willingness of rank-and-file rail workers to vote down contracts recently, it shouldn’t be simply assumed that workers will vote in favour of accepting the agreement.
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As this logistics system becomes more interdependent and fragile, the potential leverage of these workers increases to a dramatic level.
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Despite all the talk of a postindustrial and service economy, there is no getting around the fact that our economy still cannot function without industrial labour.
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A clique of executives from Meta have snapped up properties in London since the social media giant’s new King’s Cross offices opened this year, and they are far from alone.
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This had several side effects – namely that PCL became mostly lined with empty properties and prices went into ‘trophy’ mode.
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Look at a prime location such as Egerton Crescent in Knightsbridge – at first glance it appears there are just two houses (with prices around the £12 million mark) on the open market there.
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Firstly and most evidently, demand – and prices – are on the up.
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But a top buying agent tells me that access to 13 can be gained if you know the right people.
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The reasons given are a bounce-back in property values and a demand for discreet, secure houses of this kind.
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Secondly, in a signal of just who is stalking the market, there is a cloak of privacy surrounding property coming up for sale.
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There are two things in particular that show PCL is back in business.
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A large development site in a mews in South Kensington had been granted planning permission in 2014 for double-basement townhouses but struggled to attract interest from buyers.
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Over several decades, Prime Central London – or PCL – had become a repository for cash from wealthy foreigners, whether they actually wanted to live there or not.
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If you’re looking for a bellwether for the world economy, you could do worse than consider what’s happening at the very highest end of London’s property market.
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I’ve never known so many ‘on it’ friends who simply shrug and are happy to state they haven’t a clue.
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In a turbulent world, these strengths are bringing London back to the attention of the global elite again. | OBJ | false |
Anyone sticking their head above the parapet and claiming they know where the world will be in 12-36 months is sticking their finger in the air.
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Plenty of people are keen to diss the UK at the moment, but the factors that make Britain a safe place to live and work remain steady – we are on the Greenwich meridian so can trade east and west; we are politically stable; we are an island; and we have a strong rule of law.
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After all, these wealthy investors felt fairly confident that they had at least some grasp on what was happening in the world economy in the short- to medium-term – and PCL was left somewhat in the doldrums.
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Suddenly, though, multiple prospective purchasers are chasing each one – despite the recent vast increases in the cost of building them.
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This is not a world where details of properties circulate on supposed ‘off market’ websites; it’s one controlled by a cabal of high-end buying/selling agents operating completely off the grid.
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Then Brexit appeared on the horizon, and for some time rich international buyers avoided London out of fear of complications that might arise from being outside the EU.
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But all that has gone out of the window since the Ukraine war began.
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This unique set of circumstances has brought PCL back into focus as the safe haven of choice for global players seeking somewhere to stash their cash.
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Chart B shows that the Covid-19 injection was proving to have negative effectiveness against infection among both children who had previously been infected with Covid-19 prior to vaccination and children who had not been infected with Covid-19 prior to vaccination within 20 to 22 weeks (5 Months) after they were given the first dose.
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A New England Journal of Medicine study has just confirmed what the data already has: that COVID-19 vaccines are giving people a new form of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).
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The mRNA injections completely degrade the human immune system of the vaccinated population and it worsens by the week.
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The huge study was conducted by several doctors and scientists at the University of North Carolina and the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.
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Chart D shows that vaccinated children who had previously been infected with Covid-19 were proving to have zero immunity against reinfection with the Delta variant, and the same decline was beginning to be seen against reinfection with the Omicron variant.
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It is a measure of a person’s immune system performance.
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The study backs up months of work, research, and data collection from ruling classes conducted by the team at The Expose.
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They have been analyzing official Government data for over a year and have found that the COVID-19 vaccinations take, on average, about 5 months to kill the injected.
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Note in the chart above that the baseline of 0 (before being vaccinated for COVID-19) immunity.
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and how after vaccination, within months, the injected are worse off than if they would have taken the shot.
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Another analysis of official UK Government data conducted by the team here at The Expose found that mortality rates per 100k are the lowest among the unvaccinated population in all age groups, and it takes approximately five months for the elevated mortality among the vaccinated to be realized.
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It also shows that the effectiveness of the Covid-19 injection against infection fell below zero by June 2022 among children vaccinated in December 2021.
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Despite a mass media campaign to make you believe getting a booster is essential to “top up your immunity” due to declining effectiveness, it is actually impossible for vaccine effectiveness to wane when it comes to the Covid-19 injections.
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But the New England Journal of Medicine study proves that “effectiveness” is breaking the 0% barrier into negative “effectiveness”.
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The study authors used a counting-process extension of the Cox model to formulate the time-varying effects of the BNT162b2 vaccine and previous SARS-CoV-2 infection on the rate of SARS-CoV-2 infection, with adjustment for demographic variables.
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Here are their findings: Chart A shows that the effectiveness of the Covid-19 injection against infection fell below zero by April 2022 among children vaccinated in November 2021.
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Vaccine effectiveness is NOT a measure of the effectiveness of a vaccine.
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–The Exposé The real problem is that the New England Journal of Medicine Study and real-world data have proven that the vaccinated population’s immune systems are not returning to the natural state seen among most of the unvaccinated population.
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Chart C shows that unvaccinated children who had previously been infected with Covid-19 were still proving to have positive immunity to reinfection against all variants of the Covid-19 injection by May 2022.
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If they were, then studies and the data would be showing vaccine effectiveness (immune system performance) close to 0%, or a return to a baseline.
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And real-world data supplied by the UK Government, the US government, and others, unfortunately, shows the exact same thing. | SUBJ | true |
COVID is continually evolving to become more immune evasive, according to Ray, and Omicron is spawning exponentially.
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BA.2.75 still predicted to overtake in many places, but BA.5.2.1.7 has similar advantage over plain BA.5, so different outcomes.
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He added he wouldn’t be surprised to see a new variant altogether this fall.
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pic.twitter.com/ThB42hdBHO — Tom Wenseleers (@TWenseleers) August 21, 2022 So far Belgium has seen the lion’s share of BF.7 cases identified globally: 25%.
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The variant, which scientists have named BF.7 (short for BA.5.2.1.7) allegedly made up 1.7% of sequenced infections last week in the U.S., according to new data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Right now, the most common variant is BA.5, at 85%, BA.4.6, which comprised 10.3% of infections, and BA.2.75, which comprised 1.3%.
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Would anyone be surprised?
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Of course, the suggestions are to continue masking and get injected: Continue to mask and get your booster.
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For months scientists watched BA.2.75, dubbed “Centaurus” by the Twitterverse, as a variant of interest with the potential to surge this fall.
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“The same growth advantage in multiple countries makes it reasonable to think that BF.7 is gaining a foothold,” and that it’s potentially more transmissible than parent BA.5, Ray said.
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