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Sherman A1's JournalParson rescheduling trade mission trip to Israel, Greece
Governor Mike Parson's office announced on Monday that his trade trip to Israel and Greece has been postponed due to travel restrictions.
Officials in several countries have banned travel from some southern African countries due to increased cases of the omicron variant of COVID-19. The variant has also been found in some European countries, Canada, and Australia.
"We are postponing our trade mission because we want to respect the travel policies and practices enacted by the host countries," said Parson in a release. "While we are disappointed that we have to postpone, delaying our trade mission is necessary and the best course of action to ensure the health and safety of our state leaders, private partners, and staff who were planning to join us. We look forward to traveling to Israel and Greece soon."
The Parson's would have been traveling from December 2 through December 11.
https://krcgtv.com/news/local/parson-rescheduling-trade-mission-trip-to-israel-greece
Duck-billed dinosaur may be one of many at Missouri site
Finding the fossils of a large duck-billed dinosaur in southern Missouri is exciting enough, but a paleontologist who helped lead the dig believes there are many more in the same area.
The latest fossils are a specimen of Parrosaurus missouriensis, first discovered at the same site in Bollinger County nearly 80 years ago but not confirmed as a new species until the latest dig. Experts believe the plant-eating dinosaurs grew to around 35 feet (11 meters) in length. Remains of four of the species have been found in the same area about 110 miles (180 kilometers) south of St. Louis.
Last month, a crane hoisted a 2,500-pound (1,130-kilogram) chunk of remains from the latest find from the glen of a wooded area. The fossils will go to Chicago’s Field Museum for further research.
University of Minnesota Paleontologist Peter Makovicky, who helped lead the dig, said Monday that he believes the remains of many other dinosaurs will be found at the site.
https://krcgtv.com/news/local/duck-billed-dinosaur-may-be-one-of-many-at-missouri-site
What do you call a group of pig's playing classical music?
A Porkestra..........................
OPINION: Republicans have a new idea to fix the labor shortage: Loosen child labor laws
By TRISH ROONEY and BRETT BACHMAN
Republican-controlled legislatures in several states have come up with a novel way to stem the effects of an ongoing labor shortage: loosen child labor laws governing the number of hours and times that teenagers are allowed to work.
It’s not exactly a new strategy. Businesses hiring minimum-wage employees across the country have advertised their use of teenagers to plug the holes in their workforce for months, especially fast-food chains like Chipotle, Burger King and McDonalds, among others. Seasonal work in tourism-heavy industries like amusement parks have also doubled-down on the strategy.
But at least two states, Wisconsin and Ohio, are now pushing for new laws that would allow 14- and 15-year-olds to work longer hours — the most brazen attempts to expand American businesses’ use of teenage labor in decades.
https://labortribune.com/opinion-republicans-have-a-new-idea-to-fix-the-labor-shortage-loosen-child-labor-laws/
Landmark safe-staffing mandate marks Buffalo Hospital Nurses' new pacts
By TOM CAMPBELL
Editor
Western New York Labor Today and PAI
Buffalo (PAI) — A landmark mandate for safe-staffing ratios–benefiting both patients and nurses–is the highlight of new contracts covering 2,500 staffers, mostly nurses, at three Buffalo hospitals. Communications Workers Locals 1133 and 1168 represent the workers.
While the pacts do not contain any actual ratios, they’re modeled on a California safe-staffing law, proposed federal legislation and a New York state law scheduled to start Jan. 1, said Debora Hayes, CWA’s area director.
They also represent a breakthrough in the campaign by CWA and other unions representing nurses, especially National Nurses United, to mandate such safe staffing nationally, overcoming the greed of—and lobbying by–both hospital chains and insurers.
The insurers ruthlessly demand cuts in patient care, including short-staffing and early evictions of convalescing patients, in their quest for higher profits for shareholders and bigger salaries and bonuses for corporate honchos.
https://labortribune.com/landmark-safe-staffing-mandate-marks-buffalo-hospital-nurses-new-pacts/
ST. LOUIS LABOR RETROSPECTIVE: Wild West St. Louis: street railway employees fight for rights
One of bloodiest strikes in St. Louis history
By ZACHARY PALITZSCH
Archivist, Missouri State Historical Society
During the late 1800s and early 1900s, the quickest and easiest way to get around in St. Louis was the railway streetcar. Over 400,000 St. Louisans relied on this mode of transportation to get to work, home, school, or the store. That all came to a halt when the employees of the St. Louis Transit Company went on strike.
OVERWORKED, UNDERPAID
In 1899, the St. Louis Transit Company employed around 4,000 workers, and 2,100 of them had joined the newly established St. Louis division of the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employees of America (AASREA).
Not appreciating their employees’ rights as workers, the St. Louis Transit Company fired any employee caught wearing a union button or openly admitting they were a part of the union. On top of this, many employees were working 12-hour workdays for a mere pittance of 12-16 cents per hour.
Outraged by their mistreatment, leaders of St. Louis AASREA organized a meeting to discuss negotiating for more rights as workers.
https://labortribune.com/st-louis-labor-retrospective-wild-west-st-louis-street-railway-employees-fight-for-rights/
My ex used to hit me with stringed instruments.
If only I had known of her history of violins.............
Missouri wants to keep outsourcing unemployment call center
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri officials want to continue having a private company handle calls about jobless benefits in the state even though the unemployment rate has returned to pre-pandemic levels.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the state Department of Labor and Industrial Relations is asking companies to bid on a contract to run a call center that would help officials process unemployment claims and employ up to 150 people.
A California company called Protiviti has been handling those duties since October 2020, and it has been paid $18 million under a contract to help the state after the unemployment rate soared during the pandemic. That company has employed as many as 300 people at times while handling those inquiries.
The unemployment rate reached as high as 12.5% in April 2020. Currently, it is down to 3.7%, which is equal to the rate in March 2020 before the pandemic began.
https://krcgtv.com/news/local/missouri-wants-to-keep-outsourcing-unemployment-call-center
PBS World Channel News Programs
For those with access to this channel I highly recommend it for the several foreign news programs.
NHK, DW, France 24 and BBC are all simply wonderful in my opinion. News without blathering talking heads spouting a bunch of maybes or could happens to fill airtime and collect their paychecks. 
The Three Hardest Things to Say,
1). I was wrong.
2). I need help.
3). Worcestershire Sauce………….
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