Slog AM: Boeing's New Plane Can't Fly in the Rain, United Auto Workers Divest From Israel, Alan Greenspan Dies

Slog AM: Boeing's New Plane Can't Fly in the Rain, United Auto Workers Divest from Israel, Alan Greenspan Dies

Washington Dems Decline to Condemn MGP for Anti-Trans “Genocide” Vote: There was a strong push by delegates at Washington Democrats’ party convention in Spokane this weekend to punish US Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp-Perez for voting for a Republican bill last month that would force teachers to out transgender students to their parents. But the push wasn’t strong enough to sway partisans who think Democrats need all the seats they can get in Congress, …

United Auto Workers Vote to Divest from Israel in Historic Victory

The divestment vote makes the UAW the first major national union to vote to divest from Israel.

Historic Move — UAW Votes to Divest From Israel

The United Auto Workers or UAW, which boasts some 400,000 active members across the U.S., June 18 voted to divest its estimated $400,000 from Israel bonds. The divestment vote makes the UAW the first major national union to vote to divest from Israel. UAW members voted at the union’s 39th Constitutional Convention in Detroit, […] The post Historic Move — UAW Votes to Divest From Israel appeared first on .

Slog AM: Boeing’s New Plane Can’t Fly in the Rain, United Auto Workers Divest from Israel, Alan Greenspan Dies – The Stranger

Washington Dems Decline to Condemn MGP for Anti-Trans “Genocide” Vote: There was a strong push by delegates at Washington Democrats’ party convention in Spokane this weekend to punish US Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp-Perez for voting for a Republican bill last month that would force teachers to out transgender students to their parents. But the push wasn’t strong enough to sway partisans who think Democrats need all the seats they can get in Congress, …