Hints and tips:
...The Starbucks Workers United union now represents workers at about 350 of the 9,000 stores that Starbucks operates in the US. But its efforts to win a contract have stalled....
...Cleveland had also secured the backing of the United Steelworkers union....
...US federal prosecutors have accused an unnamed Indian government official of orchestrating a “murder-for-hire” plot to kill a Sikh activist in New York....
...Members of the United Steelworkers union have also voiced dismay....
...the United States and are not guaranteed by the United States....
...Central bankers, wary of being complacent on inflation, have united behind a mantra of “higher for longer”....
...It's full of tax credits designed to draw in investment into the US economy. And it's all being funded by the federal government over the next 10 years....
...Rodrik: The United States never abandoned industrial policy....
...Getting behind the United Auto Workers will help on that score. Unions are rightly seen as defenders of a decent standard of living. Biden’s team is pushing Bidenomics....
...Yesterday Joe Biden addressed striking members of the United Auto Workers union outside a General Motors plant in Belleville, Michigan, as the 2024 presidential campaign heats up....
...union’s leadership and auto executives failed to reach agreement....
...While a draft version of the IRA’s electric vehicle tax credit required union labour, the provision was removed in congressional negotiations....
...Recall that Congress has the Article I power “to borrow money on the credit of the United States.”...
...Coincidentally, this week is also the anniversary the 1707 Act of Union coming into force, when the English and Scottish kingdoms first united....
...He founded a private bank in Russia right after the fall of the Soviet Union....
...Marina became the first person from her community ever elected to the federal senate and built support for sustainable development in the Amazon region....
...I recently spent time at the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America union training headquarters in Las Vegas, which was vast, sparkling and filled not only with the traditional union workforce...
...In public, they presented a united front. But the way they spent their wealth suggested a union of sharply different men. Black accumulated artworks by Pablo Picasso and Edvard Munch....
...He explained that Moscow had no objections to us cloning credit cards or defrauding banks in Europe and the United States but anywhere within the CIS was off limits.”...
...“We should not consider efforts to bolster the relationship with the United States as a move to disregard China,” finance minister Choo Kyung-ho told a parliamentary session in May....
...Credit Suisse believes that because the tax credits are uncapped, the $370bn worth of subsidies, grants and loans in the IRA could morph into $800bn worth of total federal spending — amounting to $1.7tn...
...Now, I also, again, give the Biden administration credit. I think their China policy has been quite adept....
...India, Aero India 2023 air show begins in Bengaluru United Arab Emirates World Government Summit begins in Dubai....
...Some tax credits in the IRA and Chips act require companies to meet prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements....
...UAE grants Russian lender rare banking licence The United Arab Emirates has approved a licence for MTS Bank....
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