A small space there might be one telling that to 10 people who had to. Contract workers get less money and fewer rights and not just in the Meat Industry. German labor minister who because high are now wants to change things it will ban contract work and temporary work in the core activities of the Meat Industry because the pandemic called attention to contract worker exploitation in germany. The town of failed near fate of eating pork at the end of june thousands of people from Eastern Europe are essentially under house arrest guarded by police their work at the turn a slaughterhouse has been suspended. Around 7000 employees are in quarantine. A few kilometers away a relief operation is underway. Residents have made donations but the workers one of the organizers is an approach needed for over 70 years shes been fighting for the rights of turn his workers. Feel good. Much more than we ever expected it happened at very short notice our idea here is to give cat packages in solidarity sa
A russian dissident tells t w the order to poison alexina bali straight from the top. You. Could only have been carried out with the approval of lodging the approaching the cops to be seen down suffered a similar attack and other activists say that poison is just one tactic the kremlin uses it against its enemy plus 2 australian journalists fleet china fearing the rest as political pawns we speak with one of them and ask whats behind chinas crackdown on australian media in the country. And the show must go on thats the spirit in venice where the 1st major Film Festival since the pentagon make it is under way this years competition features a Record Number of entries from female to our 1st. Time sir. Welcome to the Program Uncertainty remains over what exactly happened on Tuesday Morning to one of the leading figures in the Opposition Movement in Officials Say that maria coalescent was detained trying to cross the border into ukraine and the authorities released these pictures of a car
Item number one is roll call. President brandon. Vice president adams. Commissioner gilman. Present. Commissioner woo ho. Here. Vice president adams. Madam president , you have a quorum. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible with Liberty Justice for all. Item number 3, approval of the minutes of july 14th, 2020 Port Commission meeting. I so move. Second. President brandon. Aye. Vice president adams. Commissioner gilman. Yes. Commissioner woo ho. Aye. President brandon the minutes have been approved. Clerk announcements for item number 4. Please be advised that a member of the public has up to three minutes to make Public Comments on each agenda item unless the Port Commission adopts a shorter period on any item. Please note that during the Public Comment period, the moderator will instruct dialin participants to use the touch tone phones to register their desire for Public Comment. Oug
I thank amanda for that. I thank amanda for the work shesing to and trying to do sthees doing and trying to do, but in too many instances, members of congress are not aware of the reality out there. The stories go on and on and on. Now that the 600 a week in Unemployment Benefits has expired. Now that the moratorium on evictions has also expired, this crisis is only to get worse and worse and worse. In my view, we need to extend the extra 600 a week in Unemployment Benefits for the 30 million measures who have lost their jobs. I think that is a nobrainer. People are hurting. People are desperate. People cannot feed their kids. People are going to be evicted from their homes and their apartments. We have got to respond to that pain and extend that 600 supplement to normal unemployment. I would go further. I believe that we need to make sure that every workingclass person in this country receives 2,000 a month until this crisis is over so they can have the security that they need, that t