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Airport, farm, and fast-food workers rally for better heat protections
Airport workers in Phoenix and farm workers in California said access to water and shade or AC is l…
Catherine Boudreau
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An AI-powered robot is helping install Amazon's largest solar farm
AES Corporation's robot can lift solar panels and precisely place them into long rows.
Catherine Boudreau
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Autry Stephens sold his company for $26 billion but died before the deal was done. Here's how a Texas farm boy became an oil tycoon.
Autry Stephens built Endeavor Energy into one of the biggest private oil producers and sold the com…
Theron Mohamed
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This indoor farming company is trying to win workers over to agriculture — through desk-job benefits
Eden Green is changing how staples like lettuce are grown. And unlike many farm jobs, it offers wor…
Tim Paradis
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Extreme heat is affecting workers this summer. New federal rules would require bosses to provide rest, water, and shade.
The proposal would affect workers in industries like farming, and construction who've been exposed …
Catherine Boudreau
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Switching to plant-based diets could help clean up the air, save over 2 lakh people worldwide: study
World Health Organisation estimates showed that one-fifth of premature deaths, amounting to nearly …
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A rural Kansas county wants remote workers to move there. It's giving new residents $4,500 cash, an internet stipend, and fresh eggs.
Looking for a change? A rural county in Kansas is offering $4,500 cash and other perks for remote w…
Allie Kelly
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This couple built 3 luxury treehouses on a picturesque Welsh farm and now rent them out see inside
Linda and John Lewis built three luxury treehouses on their farm. They initially rented them out vi…
Claire Turrell
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A Texas farm owned by one of the US' biggest potato growers paid over $1.3 million in back wages to workers after denying them overtime pay
Larsen Farms didn't pay overtime premiums to almost 500 warehouse workers, and also didn't properly…
Grace Dean
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New rules addressing extreme heat could mean better air-conditioning and more breaks for millions of workers
Since 2010, hundreds of workers have died from extreme temperatures. Now the Biden administration i…
Charles Davis
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Grimes chased Elon Musk across at least 12 locations to serve him custody papers, including X headquarters and a horse farm
Grimes tried to find Elon Musk at headquarters for X, Tesla, SpaceX, and Neuralink, among other loc…
Grace Kay,Kelsey Vlamis
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Extreme temperatures are killing farm workers - and it's 'entirely preventable,' labor advocates say. They want Democratic governors to do something about it.
Labor advocates are hoping a push for strong worker protections at the state level will influence f…
Charles Davis
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How 'consent farms' turn one click on a website into an open invitation for spammers to blow up your phone with robocalls
Regulators have notched quiet victories in the fight against spam robocalls — and exposed an …
Jack Newsham
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Elon Musk's brother's 'smart farm' startup is shutting down most of its locations and gutting its workforce
Square Roots' CEO told employees in a Zoom call Tuesday that the startup would halt production at t…
Grace Kay
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An Idaho potato farm threatened to fire foreign workers and deport them to Mexico if they didn't accept wages below the legal limit, the DOL says
The farm also didn't meet housing health and safety standards, provide wage statements to workers, …
Grace Dean
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Caitlyn Loane, a Tasmanian TikTok creator known for inspiring women farmworkers worldwide, dies at 19
Loane had become an inspiration to female farmworkers across the world. Her parents confirmed her d…
Kieran Press-Reynolds
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Nearly 5,000 Thai workers have fled Israel since the Hamas terror attacks that killed 33 of them
The Thai government said that 18 of its citizens remain hostages of Hamas somewhere inside of the G…
Sam Fellman
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Trump administration move could slash wages for over 200,000 farm workers
The Trump administration plans to stop collecting farm worker wage data, which could lead to far lo…
Charles Davis
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A quarter of Indian gig workers’ salaries grew by 50% in the last one year
An overall growth of 150% was recorded in the payments/salaries to gig workers between October 2021…
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From farm to table, immigrant workers keep America fed, but Trump-era policies helped create a labor shortfall that is causing food prices to rise
Had US immigration levels maintained their pre-2016 trajectory, analysts estimate the US would have…