Alabama
Autoworkers at Alabama’s Mercedes-Benz Plant File for a Union Election | #elections | #alabama
Mercedes-Benz workers in Vance, Alabama, will vote on whether to join the United Auto Workers (UAW). On Friday, the UAW filed for an election to represent all 5,200 of the plant’s hourly employees, after the union said a supermajority of workers at the company’s mammoth plant signed union cards in three months. Jeremy Kimbrell, a […]
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Arkansas
Walmart Heirs Launch New Music Festival in Bid to Make Arkansas an Art Destination | Smart News
The FORMAT festival will be held on 250 acres of open green land just a few miles outside of Bentonville, Arkansas. Zak Heald / Courtesy of FORMAT Some travelers know the Ozarks for the region’s forests and caves. Now, a new festival seeks to put Bentonville, Arkansas—home to Walmart’s headquarters—on the cultural map for something […]
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