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VIDEODONALD TRUMP!That is the ONLY reason why Joe Biden flew all the way to Detroit to spend twelve, count 'em, TWELVE WHOLE MINUTES with the UAW strikers. Sleepy Joe just couldn't stand the thought that he would be completely overshadowed by Trump speaking to the auto workers on on September 27 so he just had to make his brief dozen minute long appearance the day before. To keep the brevity of Biden's UAW picket line appearance in perspective, I am able to air fry my breakfast sausages in the time Quickie Joe appeared at their staged event. Of course, during...

WASHINGTON – Hunger strikers for voting rights legislation began to feel the health consequences on the second day of their strike outside the U.S. Capitol, but remained committed. "I'm feeling very tired, cold and hungry, obviously, but committed to being here," Un-PAC co-founder Shana Gallagher told Fox News Digital. Gallagher said she's also "having trouble sleeping" and experiencing "really bad" headaches. West Virginia graduate student Dominic DiChiacchio said "the hunger is starting, but it's still so early, so the morale is still really high."

Kellogg plans to permanently replace some 1,400 workers who have been striking since October, the company announced this week. Kellogg and the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers International Union failed to reach a new contract agreement, leading to the planned change. “We have made every effort to reach a fair agreement, including making six offers to the union throughout negotiations, all which have included wage and benefits increases for every employee. It appears the union created unrealistic expectations for our employees,” Chris Hood, president of Kellogg North America, said in a recent statement. “The prolonged work stoppage has...

After months of planning and deliberations, the 75th Ranger Regiment has been deployed to Syria to participate in the war against ISIS as the coalition closes in on the so-called caliphate’s capital city of Raqqa. Yesterday, the first images emerged of Stryker armored vehicles on their way to Manbij. This comes weeks after Rangers deployed to theater with their Strykers and elements of the 75th Ranger Regiment had been passing through Kurdistan. By looking at the call sign tag on the back of the Stryker, it is evident that this is 3rd Ranger Battalion out of Fort Benning, Georgia,

Hyatt apologized Friday morning for an incident in which heat lamps were turned on above workers on strike at the Park Hyatt Chicago hotel Thursday, saying a manager is responsible for the controversial move. Hotel workers on strike were taken by surprise Thursday morning when 10 heat lamps hanging above their picket line flipped on and stayed on for what they claim was nearly an hour.

Greece's Socialist government is threatening to jail striking truck drivers who have defied an emergency order to return to work in a showdown over austerity reforms in the crisis-hit country. A legal amendment being debated in parliament would see drivers who refuse to return to work stripped of their licenses and facing prison sentences of up to three years. Lawmakers are scheduled to vote on the proposal later Thursday. Truck drivers have been striking since Sept. 13, opposing plans to overhaul licensing rules as part of measures Greece agreed to in order to receive international rescue loans and avoid bankruptcy....

6/8/2009 - SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. (AFNS) -- Members of Air Mobility Command's hub for global airlift, air refueling and aeromedical evacuation here are "all in" with its commitment to support joint worldwide operations, kicking off efforts this week to airlift more than 300 Stryker vehicles to military forces in Afghanistan. The term Stryker applies to a family of armored troop-transport vehicles used by the Army for ground operations. One vehicle can carry up to 11 troops and weighs approximately 19 tons, depending on the variation, according to an Army fact sheet. Moving the Strykers, which are assigned to...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26, 2008 – After nearly seven months of holding religious services in conference rooms, the Army Strikers at Forward Operating Base War Eagle in the Adhamiyah district of Baghdad christened their new chapel with a Christmas Eve candlelight service Dec. 24, 2008. Army Spc. Dale Harris, an information systems specialist, 1st Lt. Ivan Lugo, an unmanned aerial vehicle platoon leader, and Spc. Jerrod Fox, an unmanned aerial vehicle operator, lead Christmas carols at a Christmas Eve candlelight service on Forward Operating Base War Eagle Dec. 24. U.S. Army photo by Maj. Mike Humphreys   (Click photo for screen-resolution...

After nearly three months on strike, a few Northwest mechanics have become restless and in one instance, violent. Airport Director Steve Warham says one striking employee used a sling shot to fire a rock through the window of a delivery truck. The truck’s driver apparently thought he had been shot at, and nearly lost control. Clinton Muskopf admits firing the shot. “Tempers build up. Sometimes you get out of control,” he said. “Sometimes you get caught up in the rhetoric and you make a lot of idle threats. When push comes to shove, I crossed the line,” says Muskopf. Charges...

More than 200 detainees in Guantánamo Bay are in their fifth week of a hunger strike, the Guardian has been told. Statements from prisoners in the camp which were declassified by the US government on Wednesday reveal that the men are starving themselves in protest at the conditions in the camp and at their alleged maltreatment - including desecration of the Qur'an - by American guards. The statements, written on August 11, have just been given to the British human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith. They show that prisoners are determined to starve them selves to death. In one, Binyam...

Anti-strikers join the scene outside SBC offices03:14 PM CDT on Saturday, May 22, 2004Associated Press Workers continued to picket SBC Communications Inc. Saturday, while the telephone giant and union negotiators resumed bargaining. The Communications Workers of America called a four-day strike Friday afternoon. Bargaining resumed at regional tables in Austin; Chicago; Pleasanton, Calif.; and New Haven, Conn., and was expected to continue through the weekend. The union has said it will end its strike shortly after midnight Monday to limit its impact on the company and workers. Most of the picketers outside the San Antonio headquarters on Saturday were members...