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Daimler Truck reaches deal with United Auto Workers, averts U.S. strike
Under Friday’s deal, Daimler Truck workers will receive a minimum 25% general wage increase over the four-year contract, Fain said. That would match what workers at the Detroit Three received. When the deal is ratified, Fain said members will receive an immediate 10% pay raise, followed by 3% increases six months and 12 months later. They also will receive cost-of-living adjustments to offset inflation and profit-sharing, both for the first time at Daimler Truck, as well as the end of wage tiers that paid those building buses less than those building heavy trucks, he said.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/27/daimler-truck-reaches-deal-with-united-auto-workers-averts-us-strike.html

FTC says Amazon executives destroyed potential evidence by using apps like Signal
The Washington Post (which is owned by Amazon founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos) reports that Amazon is just one of several companies recently accused of turning to encrypted messaging apps like Signal that can permanently erase messages automatically.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/26/24141801/ftc-amazon-antitrust-signal-ephemeral-messaging-evidence
https://archive.is/Wqb82

Biden to speak at White House Correspondents' Dinner, protests planned
Grassroots movement CODEPINK is expected to march to the prestigious venue from a nearby park, as "the United States media perpetuates anti-Palestinian narratives and ignores Israeli war crimes," it wrote on its website.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-speak-white-house-correspondents-dinner-protests-planned-2024-04-27/

California Residents Issued Dire Warning About Insurance Rate Rises
Several major insurers have pulled out of the state or refused to renew policies in recent months, forcing many Californians to resort to the FAIR Plan for wildfire coverage. The FAIR Plan is a privately run insurer of last resort meant to provide coverage to those who can't get it from the traditional market. These plans typically cost property owners much more money on average and are only intended to provide temporary coverage for catastrophic events.
https://www.newsweek.com/california-insurance-crisis-residents-warned-rate-rises-fair-plan-1894533

Seattle City Council debates reducing pay requirements for app-based delivery drivers
The proposed changes are meant to lower costs for customers and boost the number of orders for restaurants and drivers. But, some gig workers are pushing back against any changes. They claim the problem isn't the legislation but how the app companies respond to it.
https://www.komonews.com/news/local/seattle-city-council-app-based-delivery-drivers-committee-doordash-uber-eats-instacart-customers-business-gig-workers-legislative-policy-council-president-sara-nelson-lost-wages-minimum-wage-national-implications-regulatory-response-fee

NYC head of hate crimes prevention unit fired, plans to file discrimination claim
Last week, Adams’ chief adviser Ingrid Lewis-Martin confirmed that the administration is seeking to replace its top lawyer, Sylvia Hinds-Radix, with Randy Mastro, a former official in Mayor Giuliani’s administration. Dawn Pinnock, the head of the Department of Citywide Administrative Services, also recently announced she would be stepping down in June. And the administration is pushing out the head of the Civilian Complaint Review Board, Arva Rice, as well.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/04/26/nyc-head-of-hate-crimes-prevention-unit-fired-plans-to-file-discrimination-claim/
https://archive.is/4cD1M

Delta flight makes emergency return after exit slide separates from Boeing aircraft
A Delta Air Lines flight that departed from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City was forced to make an emergency return to the airport Friday morning after an emergency slide came apart from the Boeing 767, the airline said. A search for the slide was ongoing.
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/26/1247454971/delta-airlines-boeing-plane-emergency-jfk

Interview with TKP-ML Central Committee Political Bureau Member: “Our Party Will Continue Its War Against Fascism With Determination In Its 53rd Year Of Struggle”
– Founded on April 24, 1972, your party is leaving behind its 52nd year of struggle. On this occasion, we would like to interview you on behalf of your party. Before moving on to my questions, what would you like to say about this first? – Yes, it is easy to say that we have left behind half a century of struggle. Although this is a short period of time in terms of the struggle of societies and classes, it is also a very long period of time. We respectfully bow to the lives and memories of all our comrades, especially İbrahim Kaypakkaya, the founding leader of our party, Ali Haydar Yıldız, the first immortal of our people’s army, and Meral Yakar, the first immortal of our communist women’s organization, who became stars in these 52 years. I would also like to express our feelings of gratitude for the efforts of hundreds and thousands of our comrades who have been veterans, imprisoned and tortured in this costly struggle of more than half a century. We salute the militants of our party, our people’s army, our communist women’s organization and our komsomol who are currently in struggle, especially in the geography of Turkey, who are imprisoned in prisons and resist against the torture of isolation and torture, and who are in all areas of struggle in the Middle East and Western Europe, and we celebrate their 53rd year of struggle. And we thank you for giving us this opportunity.
https://www.tkpml.com/interview-with-tkp-ml-central-committee-political-bureau-member-our-party-will-continue-its-war-against-fascism-with-determination-in-its-53rd-year-of-struggle/
https://archive.is/Du63d

Why the US and UK are facing a military recruitment crisis
We are in a “prewar era”. That was the message from Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in a recent speech. It was not an original thought; in fact, Tusk was late to the choir. In January, UK Defence Secretary Grant Shapps delivered a watershed Lancaster House speech, in which he announced that Europe was no longer in a postwar but a prewar situation. The head of the British army has been singing the same hymn. But amid all the talk of a new European war, the political establishments in the UK and US face an enormous problem: in neither country can the armed forces attract sufficient young people to meet the demands of the military. The British army is now the smallest it has been since 1714. In the UK, the recruitment crisis is so acute that senior military figures, backed by former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, are calling for the reintroduction of conscription. If any such effort were to make it off the pages of the Tory media and into the statute books, the conscription drive would face some very real problems. A recent YouGov poll showed that young people have a very pronounced aversion to military service. The poll asked 18- to 40-year-old respondents whether they would be willing to serve in the army if a new world war broke out. Only seven percent said they would volunteer, while 21 percent said they would serve if conscripted. A total of 38 percent said they would refuse to serve even if conscripted. That’s a lot of “draft dodgers”. More surprisingly, even if the country were facing imminent invasion, a full 30 percent said they would refuse to serve even if conscripted.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/us-uk-facing-military-recruitment-crisis-why

Frederick Engels: Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State IV. The Greek Gens [The Rise of Private Property]
Thus in the Greek constitution of the heroic age we see the old gentile order as still a living force. But we also see the beginnings of its disintegration: father-right, with transmission of the property to the children, by which accumulation of wealth within the family was favored and the family itself became a power as against the gens; reaction of the inequality of wealth on the constitution by the formation of the first rudiments of hereditary nobility and monarchy; slavery, at first only of prisoners of war, but already preparing the way for the enslavement of fellow-members of the tribe and even of the gens; the old wars between tribe and tribe already degenerating into systematic pillage by land and sea for the acquisition of cattle, slaves and treasure, and becoming a regular source of wealth; in short, riches praised and respected as the highest good and the old gentile order misused to justify the violent seizure of riches. Only one thing was wanting: an institution which not only secured the newly acquired riches of individuals against the communistic traditions of the gentile order, which not only sanctified the private property formerly so little valued, and declared this sanctification to be the highest purpose of all human society; but an institution which set the seal of general social recognition on each new method of acquiring property and thus amassing wealth at continually increasing speed; an institution which perpetuated, not only this growing cleavage of society into classes, but also the right of the possessing class to exploit the non-possessing, and the rule of the former over the latter. And this institution came. The state was invented.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/ch04.htm

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