Workers at U.S. Starbucks stores have begun a five-day strike to protest a lack of progress in contract negotiations with the company. The strikes began in Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle and could spread to hundreds of stores across the country by Christmas Eve. Workers at 535 of the 10,000 company-owned Starbucks stores in the…… MORE
Amazon Workers Are Striking At Multiple Facilities.
Amazon workers affiliated with the Teamsters union are on strike for a second day at seven of the company’s delivery hubs just days before Christmas. At midnight on Saturday, the Teamsters say workers at a prominent unionized warehouse in New York will also join. The union has not indicated how many employees were participating in…… MORE
JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, Bank Of America Facing Federal Lawsuit Over Zelle Payment Network Fraud
A federal regulator has sued JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Bank of America. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says the banks failed to protect hundreds of thousands of consumers from rampant fraud on the popular payments network Zelle, in violation of consumer financial laws. In the federal civil complaint, the agency asserts that banks rushed…… MORE
American Airlines Settles Discrimination Claims with Several Making the Allegations.
(ASSOCIATED PRESS) – American Airlines said Thursday it has settled a federal race discrimination lawsuit filed by three Black men who were ordered to deboard a flight last January. Financial details of the settlement weren’t released. American called it an “amicable resolution” to the lawsuit, which was filed in May in federal court in New…… MORE
Unidentified Drones Hovering Restricted Military Zones in White Settlement
(WBAP/KLIF) — The unidentified flying drone issue comes to North Texas. White Settlement Police Chief Christopher Cook released a statement, Wednesday morning, regarding reports of drone sightings. In a post on the social media platform ‘X’, Cook says: “We started responding to multiple reports of drones flying near city neighborhoods, federal and military properties on…… MORE