Sickout. He has more on whats behind all of this and how it will impact you. Thats right, wendy. Metro and its Largest Union are locked in a heated and contentious contract dispute, thats where all of this is coming from. Metro workers have been telling their supervisors theyre not coming into work on friday. That is what our sources are telling us. An email has been going around telling supervisors theyre going to have to staff up and be ready to work 12hour shifts this entire weekend, just in case metro front line workers, like train operators and Bus Operators dont show up. What does that mean . Really, it comes down to the nasty blood that is just going on now between metro and its Largest Union, as these contract disputes go out. A spokesperson for metro said there have been an unusually high number of absentee requests for this weekend. Thats why they are taking this action. A says he doesnt believe a sickout will happen, but its a tactic that they are using to try to get the gen
It is important that people can get back to work, because there is a massive, massive Economic Cost to what we are having to do for Health Reasons. A fire at a St Petersburg hospital has killed five coronavirus patients recieving treatment in an intensive care unit. Russian News Agencies are reporting that the blaze was started by a short circuit in a ventilator. A hospital in the Afghan Capital is under attack by armed men. A doctor who fled the building told the bbc that about 140 members of staff were inside at the time. Figures released by the ons this morning show that the number of deaths mentioning coronavirus has dropped substantially for the First Time Since the epdemic began. Theyre down a quarter in the week up to may 1st. The number of total deaths is also down. Meanwhile today more than six Million People in the uk will hear whether their wages will continue to be subsidised beyond june today. In other developments, borisjohnson has defended his plans to relax the lockdown
By Leonard Powell of RNZ Neighbours of the abandoned Gulf Harbour Country Club have taken matters into their own hands, with some buying their own ride-on.
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