Congress steps to avert impending rail strike at Biden's ask. What do the rail workers want?
USA TODAY via Yahoo Finance· 4 months agoPresident Biden asked Congress to intervene in a labor dispute between rail workers and their...
Railroad unions and their employers at an impasse: Freight-halting strikes are rare, and this would...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 4 months agoThe prospect of a potentially devastating rail workers strike is looming again, prompting the Biden...
'Union Station Riot' depicts dark side of railroad strike
Tribune-Review, Greensburg, Pa. via Yahoo News· 3 months agoDec. 18—A painting at The Westmoreland Museum of American Art shows the dark side of a railroad strike in 1877. The oil painting, titled "Union Station Riot," depicts the station in Pittsburgh's ...
Around Burlington: Controversial newspapers were lively reads
The Hawk Eye via Yahoo News· 11 months ago1877 was not an especially good year for Burlington. Even more than usual, the town was split along class and ethic lines, thanks to a divisive railroad strike, a controversial city water project ...
How business and competition led to Merced becoming California’s ‘gateway’ to Yosemite
Merced Sun-Star via AOL· 4 months agoThe sounds of the season have already begun to fill the fresh, cold Merced air. Occasionally mixed...
Ellie Kemper on Involvement in Debutante Ball With ‘Racist, Sexist Past’: ‘Ignorance Is No Excuse’
Variety via Yahoo News· 2 years agoEllie Kemper has responded to backlash about her 1999 involvement in a St. Louis debutante ball with...
Grandview Heights Moment in Time
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 11 months agoWhen John F. Miller was 20 years old, he started work with the Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad, which later became the New York Central...
Letters to the Editor: Medicare for All; pray to fight climate change
Mansfield News Journal via Yahoo News· 6 months agoLabor Day solidarity and Medicare for All On Labor Day 2022, numerous labor Unions across the Northwest Ohio Region marched in Toledo in the annual Labor Day parade. This is a great sign of ...
Ellie Kemper was once crowned queen of a debutante ball called the Veiled Prophet - here's what to...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOld pictures resurfaced that showed Ellie Kemper at the 1991 Veiled Prophet Ball. The debutante ball...
Something worth fighting for
The Oak Ridger via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThere were many thousands of processing centers or internment camps for Jews during the Holocaust. Guilt is not heritable, but at the highest levels of...