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Ervin said the minimum wage for his workers under Amazon's contract was $19.75. “If you ask people to make this a career, you should have better working conditions and pay your drivers more,” said Ervin, a 26-year Air Force veteran. Amazon did not directly respond to this criticism. The company noted that its contractors, which it calls delivery service partners, have created 279,000 driver jobs over the past five years. “Helping DSPs create a good overall work experience is important to us, which is why we have invested more than $8 billion in cutting-edge technologies, safety features, pricing, programs and…

A week after losing a hard-fought election at two Mercedes-Benz factories in Alabama, the United Automobile Workers asked federal officials Friday to order a new vote, saying the German automaker violated labor laws to suppress support to the union. Mercedes-Benz has waged a “relentless anti-union campaign” characterized by “unbridled lawlessness,” the UAW said in a complaint to the National Labor Relations Board. Among other things, the union said, Mercedes fired four employees who supported the union, banned pro-union employees from campaigning and forced employees to watch anti-union videos. Workers at Mercedes plants outside Tuscaloosa, which make SUVs and batteries, voted…

The plenum celebrated by the young people of the Council of Toledo, chaired by Concepción Cedillo, ratified that the institution more than 52%. of the cost of the estancia of students who reside during the academic course in the Residencia Universitaria 'Santa María de la Cabeza', dependiente de la Diputación. In the session he gave the green light to the ordinance that regulates the public price of estancias and complementary services in university residences. The cost to families of this residence continues to be lower than other similar institutions in the province of Toledo. From the data obtained from the…

A sense of panic swept through Rafah, southern Gaza, on Monday after Israel issued an evacuation order for parts of the city, which has become home to more than a million Palestinians seeking refuge from seven months of war .People dismantled their tents in the pouring rain. Fuel and food prices skyrocketed. And some weighed the potential risk of staying against the dangers of traveling through a war zone. “If we have to leave, we will enter the unknown,” said Nidal Kuhail, 29, a resident of Gaza City and refugee in Rafah with his family. “Will we have somewhere to…

The United Nations has warned that Israel's military incursion into Rafah and the closure of border crossings pose a major obstacle to aid operations in the Gaza Strip, with disastrous implications for its population.No aid trucks have entered Gaza since Sunday, the United Nations said Wednesday, while Israel sent tanks and troops to Rafah and blocked the two southern crossings where most of the aid entered, Rafah on the Egyptian border and near Kerem Shalom on the Israeli border. . Israel said the Kerem Shalom crossing reopened on Wednesday, but did not say when the Rafah crossing would reopen. The…