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Study Claims White Drivers Pollute Black, Brown Areas of Los Angeles
March 10th, 2023 
Awake Goy A new study by a set of USC researchers claims that white drivers overwhelmingly pollute black and brown areas of Los Angeles. Source
Latvia confiscated hundreds of cars from drunk drivers: The first are now on their way to Ukraine
March 9th, 2023 Awake Goy Latvian authorities have vowed to hand two dozen confiscated vehicles from drunk drivers every week for delivery to Ukraine. Source
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No Comments »Mechanic Sees Drivers Trapped on Icy Road in Brutal Winter Storm, Frees Them for 7 Hours Till 6 A.M
March 5th, 2023 Awake Goy A brutal winter storm struck the western U.S. from Arizona to Wyoming last month, seeing many motorists stranded for long hours in cold weather and abandoned cars littering the highways. Twenty drivers trapped in a blizzard in Washington state on Feb. 22 have a pair of local heroes to thank for pulling them out. Uber […]
End of second general strike by truck drivers in ROK
December 16th, 2022 Awake Goy On December 9, South Korea’s Cargo Truckers Solidarity Union voted to end their 16-day strike. The decision brought to an end the second round of Yoon Suk-yeol’s stand-off with the left-leaning trade unions, which we have already discussed in previous articles. The strikers were demanding permanent status for the current temporary minimum wage scheme, plus […]
Second general strike by truck drivers in ROK
December 8th, 2022 Awake Goy Do you recall the summer story about the truckers’ strike in South Korea? It is now reoccurring and, in the author’s view, is not so much part of the workers’ struggle for their rights as an instance of the political confrontation between conservatives and democrats. On November 22, 2022, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions […]
In refusing to prioritize drivers’ safety, UPS risks major strike
September 6th, 2022 Awake Goy In late August, as temperatures soared around the United States, a driver for United Parcel Service (UPS) took before-and-after photos of chocolate chip cookies on a baking sheet. The delicious-looking confections were baked on the dashboard of a UPS truck whose internal temperatures shot to dangerous levels—not in an oven. It was an ingenious way […]
Posted in Climate Change, News Tags: drivers, Major, prioritize, refusing, risks, safety, strike No Comments »Cost of living crisis: UK bus drivers strike as medics and barristers threaten to walk
August 30th, 2022 Awake Goy As the cost of living bites, workers across the UK are continuing to strike, demanding higher wages to combat rising inflation. According to the trade union Unite, some 1,600 bus drivers in London walked out during the August bank holiday weekend between 27 and 28 August, following the first bus strike in the capital on […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: barristers, crisis, drivers, living, medics, strike, threaten No Comments »London Tram Drivers In Croydon Strike Against Real Terms Pay Cut
June 30th, 2022 Awake Goy Members of the Aslef union, the 150 workers rejected a 3 percent pay offer from operator First Group and voted almost unanimously to strike, on a turnout of 86 percent. With inflation at 11.7 percent RPI, the company’s offer amounts to a deep pay cut. Services were severely disrupted, affecting the Wimbledon tennis tournament, with […]
PHOTO – Bus Drivers Honor Uvalde with Vehicle Formation: ‘Bless Them for Doing This’
May 30th, 2022 Awake Goy Bus drivers working for Northside Independent School District (NISD) in San Antonio, Texas, honored Uvalde CISD on Saturday in a special way.
Texas DPS Border Inspections Take 1K Dangerous Commercial Trucks, 84 Drivers Off U.S. Roadways
April 14th, 2022 aW3aO7lN9v Texas Department of Public Safety troopers conducting safety inspections of commercial vehicles at ports of entry stopped nearly 1,000 trucks with “serious safety violations” from driving into the state. The increased inspections are being carried out under an order from Governor Greg Abbott as part of a response to the growing border crisis.
Posted in Jewish News Tags: border, commercial, dangerous, drivers, inspections, Texas, trucks Comments Off on Texas DPS Border Inspections Take 1K Dangerous Commercial Trucks, 84 Drivers Off U.S. RoadwaysTunisia: Fuel drivers announce a 3-day strike
January 6th, 2022 Awake Goy Tunisia’s fuel transport drivers began a three-day strike today over unfulfilled social demands, Anadolu reported. Secretary General of the General Union of Hydrocarbons Transport Workers of the Tunisian General Labour Union said in a statement that the drivers decided to go on a strike after the failure of three negotiation sessions with the Ministries of […]
EU Lays out Plan Giving Rights to Uber, Deliveroo Drivers
December 10th, 2021 Awake Goy BRUSSELS—The European Commission announced draft rules on Thursday to give many workers such as couriers for online platform companies including Uber and Deliveroo employee benefits, a move which labour unions say is overdue but some companies argue will lead to job losses. The proposal, a global first that needs to be thrashed out with EU […]
How NYC Taxi Drivers Took On Predatory Lenders And Won
November 19th, 2021 Awake Goy Above Photo: A Person Attends A Protest By New York Taxi Drivers About Debt Relief In New York On Oct. 20, 2021. Carlo Allegri / Reuters File. After a two-week hunger strike and two months of sit-ins, dozens of taxi drivers in New York City hosted a long-awaited celebration outside City Hall on November 10. […]
School Bus Drivers In Nationwide Strikes Over Poor Pay And Covid Risk
November 18th, 2021 Awake Goy Above Photo: A Savannah Chatham County Public Schools bus climbs the ramp onto Veterans Parkway as drivers who called out sick on 3 September, hold a protest outside the operations center. Richard Burkhart/AP. Drivers are left ‘begging for better pay’ even as the school bus driver shortage is worsening in the new school year. Yellow […]
Shell Is Tricking Drivers With Its Carbon Neutral Campaign
November 16th, 2021 Awake Goy Above Photo: The advertisements being challenged are part of Shell Canada’s Drive Carbon Neutral program, which launched in November 2020. Szabolcs Toth / Unsplash. If you find yourself filling up at a Shell station across Canada, you’ll likely be greeted by an ad, one that ensures you can drive “carbon neutral” if you participate in […]
Taxi Drivers Plan Hunger Strike For Debt Relief
October 20th, 2021 Awake Goy Above Photo: Taxis parked in protest at New York City Hall. (RBLFMR / Shutterstock) A Group Of Protesters Hope The Action Will Force A New Plan From City Hall To Help Them Pay Off What They Owe On Medallion Loans. After 30 days of protesting outside City Hall, a group of New York City taxi medallion […]
UK To Bring in Thousands Of Foreign Truck Drivers – Tory MP Suggests Using Afghans
September 27th, 2021 Awake Goy The British government is planning to issue 5,000 temporary visas to foreign drivers in order to ease a shortage of truck drivers that is causing widespread disruption. Boris Johnson agreed to go ahead and one Tory MP even suggested using Afghans, despite the fact that covid lockdowns have left many British citizens out of work. […]
Georgia School Bus Drivers Protest Inadequate COVID-19 Protection And Low Pay
September 15th, 2021 Awake Goy Above Photo: School buses at Dewar Elementary School, Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia (Wikimedia Commons) On September 3, 54 school bus drivers in the Savannah-Chatham County Public School System SCCSS) in Georgia began a rolling sickout and staged a protest at the school district offices over pay structure and lack of adequate protections from COVID-19. The […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: covid, drivers, Georgia, inadequate, protection, protest, school No Comments »Lyft, Uber to Pay Legal Fees for Drivers Sued for Transporting Passengers to Murder Babies Under New TX Abortion Law
September 5th, 2021 Awake Goy (FOX Business) — A number of big-name tech companies are expressing their opposition toward Texas’ new abortion law with new policies and offers. Several companies have taken steps to either limit abortion whistleblowers or support women who want to receive abortions in light of the new law banning women from getting abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected around the […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: babies, drivers, legal, Murder, passengers, transporting, under No Comments »Australian Truck Drivers Plan to ‘Block Every Highway’ in COVID-19 Protest
August 25th, 2021 Awake Goy Australian truck drivers plan to block the highways in protest of COVID-19 vaccines and how the governments have handled their COVID-19 responses. According to social media posts, the protests are planned for Aug. 31 across the country, separate to the upcoming Transport Worker Union (TWU) backed protest over a pay dispute. “Block every hwy [highway] […]
Posted in International Tags: Australian, block, covid, drivers, every, highway, truck No Comments »‘Out of gas:’ Multiple U.S. states declare emergency, drivers in the U.S. Southeast are scrambling for fuel
May 12th, 2021 Awake Goy Gas (fuel) outages are spreading across the U.S. Southeast as motorists rush to fill up their cars days after the biggest U.S. fuel pipeline temporarily shut down following a cyberattack. Gas stations in Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee were seeing some panic buying, said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy. Virginia and […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: declare, drivers, emergency, multiple, scrambling, southeast, states No Comments »Drivers Forced To Drive Around Extinction Rebellion Protesters
May 3rd, 2021 Awake Goy Above photo: Extinction Rebellion Swansea. The 30 minute protest, took place across three locations in Swansea on Saturday. Swansea, Wales – Extinction Rebellion protesters across Swansea stopped traffic across the city after staging a sit down protest on busy roads. The 30 minute protest, took place on Swansea’s High Street, Gower Road in Upper Killay […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: around, drive, drivers, extinction, forced, protesters, rebellion No Comments »Dystopia Prime: Amazon Subjects Its Drivers to Biometric Surveillance
April 2nd, 2021 Awake Goy Some high-tech surveillance is so dangerous to privacy that companies must never deploy it against a person without their voluntary opt-in consent. It comes as little surprise that Amazon, the company that brought you Ring doorbell cameras and Rekognition face surveillance, has a tenuous understanding of both privacy and consent. Earlier this week, Motherboard revealed the company’s cruel “take it or leave” demand to its 75,000 delivery drivers: submit to biometric surveillance or lose your job. Amazon’s “Privacy Policy for Vehicle Camera Technology” states it may collect “face […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: Amazon, biometric, drivers, dystopia, prime, subjects, Surveillance No Comments »Drivers To Be Given Real-Time “Risk Scores” Using Embedded Telematic Surveillance Sensors
March 14th, 2021 Awake Goy credit: I Scoop Gone are the days when insurance companies used race, sex and a person’s age to determine their auto insurance premiums. A new whitepaper by Cognizant, titled “The New Auto Insurance Ecosystem: Telematics, Mobility and the Connected Car” reveals the real reasons why auto manufacturers are installing machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, or telematics in new cars. “Nowhere is […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: drivers, embedded, given, scores, Surveillance, telematic, using No Comments »Joe Biden Expected to Roll Back Deportations for Illegal Alien Drunk Drivers, Assailants
February 9th, 2021 Awake Goy President Joe Biden’s administration is expected to roll back deportations starting this week for illegal aliens who have been convicted of drunk driving, simple assault, and a number of drug crimes. Internal communications reviewed by the Washington Post, and nearly confirmed by White House press secretary Jen Psaki, details how the Immigration and Customs Enforcement […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: alien, biden, deportations, drivers, drunk, expected, illegal No Comments »Amazon Caught Red Handed Stealing From Delivery Drivers-Ordered to Reimburse Them By FTC
February 3rd, 2021 Awake Goy 012February 2, 2021 AP Photo/Elaine Thompson (Associated Press) Amazon is paying nearly $62 million to settle charges that it took tips from its delivery drivers. The Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday that for more than two years, Amazon didn’t pass on tips to drivers, even though it promised shoppers and drivers it would do so. […]
Spain ‘to make it illegal’ for drivers not to slow down when overtaking cyclists
January 28th, 2021 Awake Goy Spain is reportedly planning to introduce a new law that will make it illegal for drivers not to slow down when overtaking cyclists. Current safety laws in the country already require motorists to leave a gap of 1.5 metres when trying to pass bikers on the road, even if this means crossing the unbroken white […]
Israeli race drivers traveled to Saudi Arabia to compete in Dakar Rally
January 17th, 2021 Awake Goy Israeli drivers traveled to Saudi Arabia to take part in this week’s Dakar Rally, despite a ban on Israeli travelers to the kingdom. Two of the drivers, Danny Pearl and Charly Gotlib, were listed as representing Belgium and didn’t wear any identifying Israeli symbols. However, some members of their team entered the country on their […]
Stranded truck drivers scuffle with police at UK’s Dover Port
December 24th, 2020 Awake Goy Scuffles broke out at the UK’s Dover Port on Wednesday when police attempted to make space for health workers to arrive as efforts to clear a backlog of stranded drivers continued. A police escort led in a group of cars carrying National Health Service test and trace workers and people were instructed to return to […]
