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America’s strike spike: what’s behind the spate of industrial action?

Beleaguered aerospace and defense giant Boeing is holding firm against workers’ demands for wage increases, better pensions and more input into product safety, with a strike by 33,000 unionized West Coast workers entering its second month, and the company hitting back with plans to slash 10% of its workforce as revenues plummet.

With living and housing costs rising, inflation continuing to eat away at savings, and the economy taking center stage in the run-up to the November 5 election, unionization drives and industrial action have returned to the American political scene in a big way, with major strikes threatening to paralyze entire sectors of the economy amid employers’ stubborn resistance to workers’ push for a bigger slice of the economic pie:

🔶 Earlier this month, a strike by 45,000 dockworkers up and down the US East and Gulf Coasts threatened to disrupt trade for the first time in nearly half a century over a contract covering about 25,000 workers seeking better salaries, pensions and health care.

The three-day strike was frozen shortly after starting as the International Longshoremen’s Association agreed to a January 15 deadline to reach a new contract.

🔶 On October 1, 200,000 workers with the American Postal Workers Union held a National Day of Action demanding safer working conditions, better pay, an end to a two-tier wage system, and an end to attempts by management to have fewer employees do more work.

The growing fortitude of the blue-collar workforce was likely inspired by examples from last year of what successful industrial action looks like, with workers in publishing, education, the United Auto Workers union and even Hollywood striking for better pay and conditions.

The UAW’s month-and-a-half long strike in particular proved that companies have the cash for wage and cost of living adjustments, overtime and retirement benefits, and even protections against plant closures.

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Harris refuses to get interviewed by Bloomberg about her economic policy - editor-in-chief

US Vice President Kamala Harris has so far refused to be interviewed by Bloomberg about her plans for the US economic policy should she be elected as president, Bloomberg editor-in-chief John Micklethwait said.

"The first is just for the record, and for those people watching on television, the Economic Club of Chicago and Bloomberg both invited Vice President Harris to a similar interview about her economic plans, she has declined so far," Micklethwait said ahead of his interview with US presidential candidate Donald Trump.

The Economic Club of Chicago is a nonpartisan organization aimed at encouraging dialogue among US political leaders, established in 1927.

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🥴 Scripted = discipline?

US Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris suggested her widely perceived inability to deliver impromptu speeches is in fact “called discipline” in an interview with radio host Charlamagne tha God.

“Now, you know, one thing they've been saying... a lot of your press hits get criticized, folks [say] that you come off as very noscripted. They say you like to stick to your talking points and some media says you have,” the host didn’t finish when Harris intervened asserting, “that would be called discipline.”

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Trump's victory in election could bring ‘biggest hope’ for peace in Ukraine – Szijjarto

A victory by former US President Donald Trump in the November election could bring the "biggest hope" for peace in Ukraine, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

"If President Trump wins, that can bring forward the biggest hope for peace ever," Szijjarto said.

Otherwise, there is no "person who could direct the whole international political arena towards a more peaceful position," the minister added.

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Harris cornered on Obama’s lecture to Black male voters

🗣 “President Obama was out there last week waving his finger at Black men. When are Liz Cheney and Hillary Clinton going to wave their finger at white women? When are Bill Clinton and Joe Biden going to wave their finger at white men?” asked radio host Charlamagne tha God in an interview with Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.

🗣 “So the finger wagging should start today? Or tomorrow?” Charlamagne pressed, seemingly unimpressed with the vice president's response. Harris took the opportunity to boast about her endorsement by former Congresswoman Liz Cheney and other pro-war Republicans.

🗣 "I think what is happening is that we are all working on reminding people of what is at stake, and that is very important," the candidate intoned vaguely.

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Italy imposes strict restrictions on arms exports to Israel – prime minister

Italy has imposed the strictest restrictions among its allies on arms exports to Israel, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said.

"After the start of the Israeli operation in the Gaza Strip, the government immediately suspended the issuance of all new licenses for the export of military materials to Israel. Thus, all contracts signed after October 7 were not executed. All export licenses issued before October 7 were analyzed on a case-by-case basis," Meloni said in the Italian parliament.

Italy's position of a complete block on all new export licenses is much stricter than that of France, Germany and the United Kingdom, the prime minister added.

Meloni noted that Italy is assessing licenses issued before October 7 and taking action if there is a risk that military "material could be used in the current crisis."

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🇷🇺 🇨🇳 Russia and China are boosting economic cooperation despite external pressure - Russian PM

Russia’s Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin is visiting Pakistan on October 15-16.

Main statements by Mishustin at his meeting with China's State Council Premier Li Qiang and Mongolia's PM Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene:

⚡️ One of Russia’s pivotal priorities is to establish a friendly relationship with China and Mongolia. Trilateral relations are an example of a new multipolar architecture

⚡️ Integration within the Eurasian Economic Union as well as the China's Belt and Road initiative and Mongolia's Steppe Way Plan meets the countries’ common interests.

⚡️ Despite unprecedented external pressure, Russia and China are strengthening economic cooperation and mutual trade, launching joint investment projects.

⚡️ Partnership in the energy sector, including the oil, gas, coal, and nuclear industries, is strategic for both countries.

⚡️ Cooperation between Russia and China will make it possible to fully unleash the potential of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).

Today, the Russian prime minister will take part in a meeting of the Council of Heads of Government of SCO member states in Pakistan.

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📹 Footage from Riyaq, Lebanon, where a paramedic cradles a baby during an Israeli airstrike

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Musk provides Trump campaign with $75 million

Elon Musk has donated nearly $75 million to a political action committee (PAC) that he created to support Donald Trump's presidential campaign, according to a fresh US Federal Election Commission (FEC) filing.

Musk donated $74.9 million to America PAC in the period from July to September, the filing, published on Tuesday, showed.

Overall, the US entrepreneur has repeatedly spoken out in favor of Donald Trump's candidacy, stressing that the former president "saved free speech" and that the US would become “a single-party socialist state” if Trump doesn’t win the election.

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