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• A federal labor official cleared the way Friday for Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama to cast ballots in an election that could create the first union among the company’s U
• Under the decision from the National Labor Relations Board, workers at Amazon’s facility in the Birmingham suburb of Bessemer will vote by mail over the course of several weeks in February and March, with ballots to be counted March 30
• If a simple majority of those cast support unionizing, then the workers will be represented by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU)

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• A former supervisor at the Parkway coal mine in Western Kentucky pleaded guilty Tuesday to taking part in a scheme to hide the threat of black lung disease from federal safety officials
• Steve DeMoss, a former safety director and foreman for Armstrong Coal, which owned and operated the Parkway mine, acknowledged in court that he helped submit misleadingly low coal dust readings to mine regulators
• Miners can develop black lung disease by breathing too much coal dust in a mine’s atmosphere, leading to a debilitating ailment that sufferers compare to the sensation of drowning

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• HONG KONG (AP) — YouTube has suspended U
• President Donald Trump’s channel for at least a week amid concerns over “ongoing potential for violence,” making it the latest platform to limit the president’s online activities
• The Google-owned platform said it removed content that was uploaded on January 12 from the Donald J

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• Sheldon Adelson, a billionaire casino magnate whose huge political donations made him a top influence on the Republican Party and President Donald Trump, has died
• Adelson was the founder and CEO of the Las Vegas Sands Corp
• , which announced his death Tuesday from complications related to treatment for non-Hodgkin lymphoma

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• More than 20 female former employees of United Way Worldwide have said that sexual harassment, discrimination and retaliation is commonplace at the nonprofit
• In a letter sent on Dec
• 22 to the chairs of the organization’s boards of trustees, the women also said their opportunities at United Way were limited because of their gender

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• One of the largest grocery chains in the U
• has decided to end much of its in-house delivery service, outsourcing the work to third-party companies like DoorDash that rely on independent contractors to drop off food to customers on the cheap
• Unions representing workers at Albertsons say the chain’s decision will end up degrading good delivery jobs by putting the work on a “gig” model