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Tesla’s Swedish labor dispute pits anti-union Musk against Scandinavian worker ideals

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:52 GMT

Tesla has found itself locked in an increasingly bitter dispute with union workers in Sweden and neighboring countries. The showdown pits the electric car maker’s CEO Elon Musk, who’s staunchly anti-union, against the strongly held labor ideals of Scandinavian countries. None of Tesla’s workers anywhere in the world are unionized, raising questions about whether strikes could spread to other parts of Europe where employees commonly have collective bargaining rights — notably in Germany, Tesla’s most important market.Here are key things to know about the union fight: HOW DID THE TESLA STRIKE GAIN STEAM?About 130 mechanics at 10 Tesla garages across Sweden walked off the job on Oct. 27 over the company’s refusal to sign a collective bargaining agreement. Tesla doesn’t have a factory in Sweden, but does have a network of service centers. Since the mechanics with the powerful Swedish metalworkers’ union IF Metall went on strike, other workers around the cou...

2023 Atlas of Migration confirms continued strong EU support to Ukrainians fleeing the war

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:52 GMT

On the occasion of International Migrants' Day (18 December), the Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) released a new edition of the Atlas of Migration, an online tool providing the latest harmonized and validated data on migration for the 27 EU Member States and for 171 countries and territories around the world.The 2023 edition features a special thematic section on EU solidarity trends towards people displaced from Ukraine. It shows that the determination and resilience of Europeans to support Ukraine and the displaced people remains strong at EU level. This coincides with results of August 2023 Eurobarometer survey showing that 79% of people  are in favour of welcoming people fleeing the war to the EU.Promoting our European Way of Life Vice President Margaritis Schinas said: “The Atlas of Migration is an important tool to understand the dynamics of migration trends, not only at EU level but also worldwide. This information is key to grasp the complexity of migration, gives u...

'Glide' celebrates 60 years with new CEO

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:52 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) – The Glide Memorial Church and Foundation is celebrating 60 years serving San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood with free Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners, and so much more. Now a major leadership transition is taking place there, but not only a transition in leadership. It is also the launch of the new strategy to take glide forward.“Glide Forward" is actually the name of the new plan for the San Francisco institution. The iconic leader of this historic church - Rev. Cecil Williams - is officially passing the baton to a dynamic woman with deep San Francisco roots.There is a lot of excitement about this changing of the guard.“Honestly, it feels like I stepped into a place that’s been waiting for me for a long time,” said Dr. Gina Fromer. Passionate, down to Earth and determined, Dr. Fromer is a sixth-generation San Franciscan. Raised in Bayview-Hunters Point, she led a number of nonprofits in the city before coming to Glide.She is well aware of the leg...

Anze Kopitar scores as Kings beat Sharks 4-1 for another road win

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:52 GMT

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Anze Kopitar had a goal and an assist as the Los Angeles Kings beat the San Jose Sharks 4-1 on Tuesday night.The Kings improved to 13-1-1 on the road, the best mark in the NHL. Trevor Moore got his team-leading 15th goal, Alex Laferriere also scored and Trevor Lewis added an empty-netter for Los Angeles. Kevin Fiala had two assists.“I guess we just have a little mojo on the road,” said Arthur Kaliyev, who assisted on Kopitar’s goal.Kings coach Todd McLellan said his team plays a simpler game on the road than at home, where Los Angeles is 5-5-3.“We hand off good shifts,” McLellan said. “Sometimes when we’re home, we play in pieces. We extend things. We get a little too cute. So we’ve got to take this road game and put it in play it at (home).”David Rittich made 14 saves in his Kings debut and nearly completed the shutout. The veteran goalie was called up from the AHL after backup Pheonix Copley was placed on long-term injured reserve Sunday. ...

Un río atmosférico trae fuertes lluvias al centro y sur de California, la alerta de inundaciones aumenta a 23 millones de personas

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:52 GMT

(CNN) — Un río atmosférico trae fuertes lluvias al centro y sur de California, la alerta de inundaciones aumenta a 23 millones de personasSe ha emitido una alerta de inundación para más de 23 millones de personas en el centro del sur de California, ya que un río atmosférico traerá fuertes lluvias al estado en las próximas horas, según el Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (NWS).Las alertas de inundaciones para el centro de California expirarán este jueves por la noche e incluyen Bakersfield, Buena Vista, Buttonwillow – Lost Hills – I5, Frazier Mountain Communities, Grapevine, South End San Joaquin Valley, Tehachapi y West Side Mountains al sur de 198.Partes de la cordillera de Sierra Nevada tienen una elevación lo suficientemente alta como para que una advertencia de tormenta invernal esté vigente hasta el jueves por la mañana, donde es posible que caigan entre 1 y 2 pies de nieve por encima de los 8,000 pies. Las ráfagas podrían alcanzar hasta 45 mph.Las alertas de i...

Trail Blazers erase 22-point deficit for 109-04 win over Suns

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:52 GMT

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — DeAndre Ayton had a double-double of 16 points and 15 rebounds, Anfernee Simons had 23 points and seven rebounds, and the Portland Trail Blazers erased a 22-point deficit to beat the Phoenix Suns 109-104 on Tuesday night to snap a seven-game losing streak.The loss for the Suns was their fifth in seven games. Phoenix’s Kevin Durant led all scorers with 40 points while Devin Booker had 26 points and seven assists.Simons’ layup with 10.7 seconds left helped stop a late Phoenix rally after Portland pushed their lead to 14 in the 4th quarter. “I was trying to decide whether to go up with two hands or shoot a floater and at the last minute I switched it to a floater,” Simons said of his final basket.Ayton played a game-high 40 minutes and put up a season-high 18 field goal attempts against his former team. The former No. 1 pick downplayed any extra motivation against the team that drafted him.“I’ve just been focused on being a Trail Blazer and establishing who ...

STORY REMOVED: US–Black Historic Communities

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:52 GMT

DAUFUSKIE ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Please disregard US–Black Historic Communities, published on December 19, 2023, and datelined in DAUFUSKIE ISLAND, S.C.. It is intended for a future cycle.Source

EU strikes historic migration deal

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:52 GMT

BRUSSELS — The European Union on Wednesday broke years of political deadlock by agreeing on a deal that will significantly change how the bloc processes migrants, moves them around EU countries and effectively makes it easier to remove unsuccessful asylum seekers.European Parliament President Roberta Metsola hailed the deal as historic. Negotiators from the Parliament, Council and Commission worked through the night to agree on the overhaul of the EU’s asylum procedures. It came after years of failed attempts, with regulations aiming to balance the concerns of both border countries that want help handling asylum seekers and inland countries that argue too many migrants are arriving in one EU country, and then moving on to others. Under the agreement, which is preliminary and still needs to be formally ratified by the European Parliament and Council, frontline countries in Southern Europe will institute a stricter asylum procedure at their non-EU borders and will be more e...

UK inflation falls sharply in November, boosting BoE rate cut hopes

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:52 GMT

Inflation in the U.K. fell to its lowest in over two years in November, fanning the flames of speculation that the Bank of England will be start cutting interest rates relatively early next year. The Office for National Statistics said its consumer price index fell 0.2 percent from October, rather than rising 0.2 percent as economists had expected ahead of time. Underlying inflation, which strips out volatile food and energy prices, fell even more sharply, by 0.3 percent. That brought the headline annual rate down to 3.9 percent, down from 4.6 percent in October. While that’s still nearly double the Bank of England’s medium-term target of 2 percent, it represents remarkable progress from a peak of over 11 percent a year ago. Financial markets reacted enthusiastically to the news, pushing the benchmark FTSE 100 stock index up over 1.3 percent to its highest since May, the best performing market in Europe, while the pound fell half a percent against both the euro and the ...

US flies a bomber for joint drills with South Korea, Japan after North’s long-range missile launch

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:52 GMT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The United States flew a long-range bomber for joint drills with South Korea and Japan on Wednesday in a show of force against North Korea, days after the North performed its first interconnectional ballistic missile test in five months. The trilateral training off South Korea’s southern island of Jeju was meant to strengthen the countries’ joint response against North Korean nuclear threats, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.The exercise involved a B-1B bomber and South Korean and Japanese fighter jets, the statement said. It said the B-1B’s flyover is the 13th time that a U.S. bomber has been temporarily deployed near and over the Korean Peninsula this year.A B-1B is capable of carrying a large conventional weapons payload. North Korean has previously called the bomber’s deployment a proof of U.S. hostility and had reacted with missile tests.North Korea on Monday launched a Hwasong-18 ICBM into the sea in a drill it said was me...