Experts had noted a win there would have given the union more leverage in its quest to negotiate a contract with Amazon and a chance to demonstrate its prior win at a facility on Staten Island, New York, wasn’t a one-off.
Carol Semple
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First U.S. lease sale to be held for offshore wind on West Coast
Hundreds of offshore wind developers and experts gather in Rhode Island to talk about the future of clean energy – how to grow the offshore wind industry and address shared challenges.
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Ukraine’s power, water supplies under Russian attack again
Depriving people of water, electricity and heat as winter begins and the broadening use of so-called suicide drones that nosedive into targets have opened a new phase in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war.
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Are you a mosquito magnet? It could be your smell
Out of mosquitoes’ favorites, the researchers found a common factor: People who are mosquito magnets had high levels of certain acids on their skin.
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Novel by Sri Lanka’s Shehan Karunatilaka wins Booker Prize
Karunatilaka won the prestigious award for fiction for ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.’ Among those in the running was part-time Maine resident Elizabeth Strout.
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Up to 20 arrested after striking truckers block Massachusetts food plant exits
Sysco, which has distribution facilities across the country, supplies food to schools, hospitals, nursing homes and restaurants.
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Waves of suicide drones strike Ukraine’s capital, killing at least 4
The concentrated use of the drones is the 2nd barrage in as many weeks – after months in which air attacks had become become a rarity in central Kyiv.
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Bangor police justified in shooting despite 37-foot distance, attorney general finds
Officers were checking on Brian Barker and saw that he had a knife, which they repeatedly asked him to put down.
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Government says Steve Bannon should get 6 months for defying subpoena
The Justice Department push comes shortly after the House Jan. 6 committee took the extraordinary step last week to subpoena Trump himself, something the members said was necessary to get the full story of what happened that day.
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Civil rights activist, 91, stabbed in Boston park
Jean McGuire, the first Black woman to serve on the Boston School Committee, was walking her dog when she was attacked.