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TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--After ten weeks of walking the picket line, the 24 members of CUPE Local 5525 Villa Colombo Supportive Housing, are finally returning to work. The workers had been on strike since May 28th. The union and the employer reached a tentative agreement on Friday, August 1st, with the union members ratifying the vote with over a 94% margin. The agreement is the first in the local’s history and sets the baseline for their future negotiations. The workers are returning to work...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dozens of cultural leaders in film, television, music, and other creative industries are marking 80 years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by calling attention to the underappreciated and escalating catastrophic risks posed by nuclear weapons. Their statement—endorsed by the Governors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and former U.S. Secretary of Energy and Co-Chair and CEO of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) Ernest J. Moniz—is captured in a letter ap...

TAMPA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. (NASDAQ: OMEX), an ocean exploration pioneer engaged in the discovery, development, and extraction of strategic minerals that provide solutions to global challenges, today expressed strong support for the newly announced cooperation between the United States (U.S.) and the Cook Islands to advance scientific research and the responsible development of seabed mineral resources. “We commend the leadership of both the U.S. and Cook Isla...

OTTAWA, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Air Canada Component of CUPE, the union representing over 10,000 flight attendants at Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge, says its members have voted 99.7% in favour of strike action, if necessary. The vote reflects the deep frustration of flight attendants after months of negotiations without result, due to the airline's refusal to fairly negotiate on key issues like unpaid work, work rules, and poverty-level wages. "The company would rather drag their feet t...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Optimized Plant Mediated Solutions, O.P.M.S., Kratom industry leader since 2010, applauds the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s actions against dangerous products containing synthetically concentrated 7-hydroxymitragynine (7-OH). As part of those actions the Agency recommended the scheduling of certain 7-OH products under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). FDA also released letters to heath care professionals and consumers to educate them on the risks of these d...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NMHC is pleased to hear that the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is authorizing each GSE to annually purchase up to $2 billion in Tax Credit Equity, an increase from their current $1 billion limit, for a combined increase of $2 billion. This significant move will improve housing affordability and expand housing opportunities for those most in need. NMHC appreciates the Trump Administration’s commitment to lowering housing costs by expanding housing supply. “Th...

PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OTG workers at the Philadelphia Airport filed over 50 complaints alleging multiple violations of Philadelphia's local wage and hour laws....

WILMINGTON, Del.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, following the announcement that Delaware’s Court of Chancery will introduce randomized, automated case assignments – or “wheelspin” – effective September 15, 2015, Citizens for Judicial Fairness released the following statement from TransPerfect Founder Phil Shawe “For over a decade, TransPerfect has fought for basic fairness in the Chancery Court. Adopting a randomized “wheelspin” method to decide what judge is assigned to a case--and taking that power...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Former Commonwealth Edison CEO Anne Pramaggiore, the only female CEO in the company’s history, who turned around a failing electric utility and turned it into one of the country’s best while cutting rates four times and reducing outages to historic lows, released the following statement today through a spokesman, Mark Herr Communications: Statement Counsel for Anne Pramaggiore has filed a notice of appeal today with the United States District Court for the Northern Dis...

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Following a deadly crash in Kaufman County involving a U.S. Postal Service (USPS) contract truck that killed five people — including four members of one Texas family — Dallas attorney and nationally recognized traffic safety advocate Amy Witherite is demanding immediate federal reforms. “Enough is enough. The Postal Service’s pattern of negligence is costing lives,” said Amy Witherite, founding attorney of Witherite Law Group. “We now know that from 2018 to 2022, 89 peo...