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...To the degree that President Biden received a mandate, it was to govern from the middle, steward our institutions, and unite America,” he said in a statement....
...Lindsey Graham, the Republican senator from South Carolina and one of McCain’s closest allies in Congress, tweeted: “America and Freedom have lost one of her greatest champions....
...Members of the Unite and GMB unions had rejected an offer last month, even though union shop stewards recommended acceptance....
...Shop stewards claimed pledges that there would be no redundancies while IREM, an Italian contractor, was on the site were being broken, and that staff involved in the original dispute were being victimised...
...It was this formula that received the tentative approval of the shop stewards, who on Thursday morning will put the detailed proposal to striking workers at the Lindsey refinery....
...Industrial peace was in sight for one of Britain’s most troubled industries on Friday after shop stewards voted to recommend a two-year pay and conditions deal for up to 30,000 construction workers at power...
...Phil Davies, the GMB’s national secretary, said shop stewards felt union members would not accept the pay freeze and were not satisfied by changes in the contract auditing arrangements....
...The strikes followed a dispute over Portuguese and Italian workers at Lindsey oil refinery in Lincolnshire in February....
...The move came as the dispute at the centre of the affair was nearing resolution, with shop stewards at the Lindsey refinery poised to recommend an end to the illegal strike on Thursday....
...“The men would have walked out willy-nilly last week but the shop stewards persuaded them to have a meeting....
...Though this is not an issue at Sellafield, union shop stewards said foreign companies elsewhere were undercutting and refusing to hire locals....
...“We’ve agreed to go back to work on Monday because we’ve reached our objective,” said Tony Ryan, a shop steward for Unite....
...Of course, Clinton has also been finding kind words to say about one-time tormentors such as Newt Gingrich and Lindsey Graham....
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