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• ISMAILIA, Egypt (AP) — A skyscraper-sized cargo ship wedged across Egypt’s Suez Canal further imperiled global shipping Thursday as at least 150 other vessels needing to pass through the crucial waterway idled waiting for the obstruction to clear, authorities said
• The Ever Given, a Panama-flagged ship that carries cargo between Asia and Europe, ran aground Tuesday in the narrow, man-made canal dividing continental Africa from the Sinai Peninsula
• In the time since, efforts to free the ship using dredgers, digging and the aid of high tides have yet to push the container vessel aside

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• BESSEMER, Ala
• ― Darryl Richardson took a job on the factory floor at Faurecia Automotive Seating, a seat supplier to Mercedes, in Cottondale, Alabama, in 2011
• He soon joined a successful effort to unionize the plant with the United Auto Workers

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• BESSEMER, Ala
• ― The union election taking place at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama is exceptional in many ways
• With nearly 6,000 workers, a victory for the union at this facility would mark the biggest win for organized labor in more than a decade, while creating the first unionized workforce among all of Amazon’s sprawling U

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• A pioneering bill has been introduced in California that, if passed, would make kids’ sections in department store gender neutral
• “Let kids be kids,” tweeted State Assembly member Evan Low, who chairs the California Legislative LGBT Caucus
• He’s co-sponsoring Assembly Bill 2826 with colleague Cristina Garcia, who chairs the California Legislative Women’s Caucus

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• Royal Dutch Shell vowed last September to reach net-zero carbon pollution in its business by 2050
• The goal was vague but notable, and seemed to become more realistic when the corporation announced earlier this month that its crude oil production had peaked in 2019 and would likely never increase again
• Yet while Shell abandons the outright climate obstructionism it once espoused, the oil giant has continued to fund a network of lobbying groups that fight policies to curb planet-heating emissions and rein in new drilling

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• Roughly a hundred organizers have been calling workers from Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse in recent weeks, making the case for why they should unionize
• The robust phone-banking operation reflects the high stakes for organized labor as workers at the facility consider forming the first Amazon union in the U
• The organizing effort extends well beyond the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), which would represent the facility’s employees