Category: Seattle
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Hundreds of Hilton hotel workers walk off the job in Seattle By Reuters
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(Reuters) – More than 100 workers at the Hilton Hotel in Seattle have quit their jobs to demand higher wages, fair hiring and workloads and a reversal of coronavirus-era cutbacks, the United Here union said on Saturday. “The week-long strikes by 374 workers at the DoubleTree by Hilton Seattle Airport…
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Tesla was in Full Self-Driving mode when it hit and killed Seattle motorcylist, police say By Reuters
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Written by Hyunjoo Jin SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A Tesla Model S was in “full self-driving” mode when it struck and killed a 28-year-old motorcyclist in the Seattle area in April, police said, making it at least the second fatal accident involving the technology that Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon…
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Bayer’s Monsanto unit to pay $160M settlement to Seattle over PCB pollution
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Sean Gallup/Getty Images News Bayer (OTCPK:BAYRY) (OTCPK:BAYZF) has agreed to pay $160 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the city of Seattle, Washington, which accused the company’s Monsanto unit of polluting the local Duwamish River with banned chemicals in what the city says is the largest such incident since…