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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The International Brotherhood of Teamsters strongly supports Senator Tammy Baldwin’s (D-WI) oversight request sent to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today, calling for renewed scrutiny of the 2018 Energizer-Spectrum merger. The letter comes as Energizer proposes plant closures in Portage and Fennimore, Wisconsin.   Energizer recently moved to outsource 600 good-paying Teamster

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Local Law Enforcement is teaming up with the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Region 7, which includes Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska for the national U Drive. U Text. U Pay. high-visibility enforcement campaign.   From April 3-10, 2023, law enforcement officers will work together

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) today released a new report that shows an upward trend in non-fire carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning deaths. The report, Non-Fire Carbon Monoxide Deaths Associated with the Use of Consumer Products 2019 Annual Estimates, covers deaths from 2009 to 2019. Most CO deaths occur in the colder months of

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Food and Drug Omnibus Reform Act of 2022 directed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, in consultation with other federal government partners, to develop an immediate national strategy to increase the resiliency of the U.S. infant formula supply chain, protect against future contamination and other potential causes of shortages, and ensure

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Waddell, Withers, and Smith: A Requiem for King is a multimedia exhibition by three Memphis-born artists opening at the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel on April 4, on the 55th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination at the historic site. As the first artistic reactions to the assassination,

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Unintentional pediatric poisoning deaths spiked 37 percent in 2021, with 59 children under five years old losing their lives after gaining access to prescribed or illicit drugs. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) encourages consumers to safeguard their families, especially those more vulnerable, from poisonings by taking control of potentially harmful

Aging workers are in demand; they are reliable, mature and professional by John Grimaldi WASHINGTON, DC, Mar 17 — It’s a given that the state of the U.S. economy over the past several years has caused many elders in our population to go back to work or, for those who are already in the workplace,

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is distributing $56.5 million to state fish and wildlife agencies through the State Wildlife Grant (SWG) Program to support conservation and stewardship efforts for imperiled wildlife and their habitats. These grant funds are allocated to all states, U.S. territories and the District of Columbia according to

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is warning consumers about the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning associated with the use of GLBSUNION and CUZMAK digital display carbon monoxide (CO) detectors. The CO detectors can fail to alert consumers to the presence of hazardous carbon monoxide. More than 200 people in the United States