NASA Astronauts Don’t Receive Overtime Pay for Space Mission But Get a Day
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NASA Astronauts Don’t Receive Overtime Pay for Space Mission But Get $5 a Day

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines If your eight-day work trip was unexpectedly extended by nine months, you might expect to rack up some overtime pay. Not so for Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, the NASA astronauts who spent 278 extra days on the International Space Station after their…

East African Housekeepers Face Rape, Assault and Death in Saudi Arabia
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East African Housekeepers Face Rape, Assault and Death in Saudi Arabia

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Feith Shimila Murunga says her boss groped, beat and raped her. Mary Wanjiru Nyambura says she was thrown from a balcony. Winfridah Kwamboka never even made it back home. East African leaders and Saudi royals are among those profiting off a lucrative, deadly…

Government Workers Who Have Lost Their Jobs Worry About Their Housing
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Government Workers Who Have Lost Their Jobs Worry About Their Housing

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Lisa Sturtevant, the chief economist at Bright MLS, a multiple listing service, said that it is too soon to tell if the D.C. market has been shaken by the layoffs because “it hasn’t had enough time to filter into the housing market,” she…

As Off Broadway Crews Unionize, Workers See Hope, Producers Peril
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As Off Broadway Crews Unionize, Workers See Hope, Producers Peril

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A unionization wave sweeping across Off Broadway is poised to reshape the economics of theater-making in New York — for workers as well as producers. Striking stage crews have idled the nonprofit Atlantic Theater Company — the birthplace of the musicals “Spring Awakening,”…

Officers Flee as N.Y.P.D. Confronts Its Billion-Dollar Overtime Problem
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Officers Flee as N.Y.P.D. Confronts Its Billion-Dollar Overtime Problem

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Angeliesse and Mike Nesterwitz met and married as New York Police Department officers. They each made more than $100,000 a year, but life had become unbearable. The couple were eager to start a family, but they barely saw each other because they were…

Whole Foods Workers Form First Union in Amazon’s Grocery Chain
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Whole Foods Workers Form First Union in Amazon’s Grocery Chain

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Workers at a Whole Foods Market in Philadelphia voted on Monday to become the first unionized store in Amazon’s grocery chain, opening a new front in the e-commerce giant’s efforts to fend off labor organizing in multiple segments of its business. Employees at…

Amazon’s Fight With Unions Heads to Whole Foods Market
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Amazon’s Fight With Unions Heads to Whole Foods Market

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines At a sprawling Whole Foods Market in Philadelphia, a battle is brewing. The roughly 300 workers are set to vote on Monday on whether to form the first union in Amazon’s grocery business. Several store employees said they hoped a union could negotiate…

U.S. Oil Production Is Booming. Oil Jobs Are Not.
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U.S. Oil Production Is Booming. Oil Jobs Are Not.

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines For years, as oil and gas companies increased production, they hired lots of workers, enriching communities across the United States. That is no longer true. The country is pumping more oil than ever and near-record amounts of gas. But the companies that extract,…

Inside Elon Musk’s Plan for DOGE to Slash Government Costs
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Inside Elon Musk’s Plan for DOGE to Slash Government Costs

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines An unpaid group of billionaires, tech executives and some disciples of Peter Thiel, a powerful Republican donor, are preparing to take up unofficial positions in the U.S. government in the name of cost-cutting. As President-elect Donald J. Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency…