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Fri, 17/05/2024 - 19:16
Max von Sydow (1929-2020) medverkade i över ett hundra filmer och TV-serier. Han gjorde många minnesvärda roller, men den som har berört mig mest är som fadern i Pelle Erövraren — baserad på Martin Andersen Nexös episka mästerverk. Bille August regisserade. Stefan Nilsson skrev musiken. Max von Sydow gjorde sitt livs prestation. Och det skär […]
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Fri, 17/05/2024 - 18:32

Labor’s budget is about making it look like the government is acting on the cost of living, in the hope of dampening the anger workers feel about it in time for an election in the next year.

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Fri, 17/05/2024 - 12:58

New environmental protection laws promised before the last election have been put indefinitely on hold, in another effort by the Albanese government to serve the coal and gas industry.

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Fri, 17/05/2024 - 09:30
Labor Historian Eric Loomis was asked to give a letter grade to Joe Biden’s administration on labor policy. Biden makes the honor roll: Joe Biden has pledged repeatedly to go further than any of his predecessors with his support for U.S. labor rights. “I intend to be the most pro-union president leading the most pro-union administration in American history,” Biden said at a White House meeting in September 2021 that brought together ordinary workers, labor leaders and government officials. He has expressed this intention many times, sometimes clarifying his goals. For example, in 2023 he said in Chicago that his administration was “making it easier to empower workers by making it easier to join a union.” Based on my research regarding the history of organized labor in America, I would give Biden an A-minus for his record on workers rights. In my view, the man dubbed “Union Joe” has lived up to the claim, with one notable error. He says it’s the same grade he would give to FDR.