Month: December 2023

In a check-in room at Orly airport, September 2014. STÉPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP The unions are still not taking off against Air France's decision, announced in mid-October, to leave Orly airport to consolidate all its activities at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle. Within two years, at the latest, the group will only be represented at Orly by its low-cost subsidiary Transavia. The inter-union association, which brings together all the airline's organizations, with the exception of the two main pilots' unions, the National Union of Line Pilots (SNPL) and the Air France Pilots' Union, filed a notice of strike for Thursday, December 14. The…

The Ethics Committee, contacted by the organizers of the Paris Olympic Games, recommended Monday the exclusion of former basketball player Emilie Gomis from her role as ambassador of the event, for having positioned herself against Israel at war against Hamas, in a publication on Instagram. It is now up to the Organizing Committee to make the decision whether or not to terminate the contract of the Olympic vice-champion with Les Bleues in 2012, also a member of the board of directors of Paris-2024. Two days after the attacks perpetrated by Hamas in Israel on October 7, Emilie Gomis published a…

Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York announced a $1 billion investment plan Monday to expand chip research operations in Albany, N.Y., as the state aims to remain a global semiconductor center.The plan is expected to create 700 new permanent jobs and retain thousands more, and includes the purchase of a new version of one of the world's most expensive and sophisticated manufacturing machines, as well as the construction of a new building to house it.At an event in Albany, Governor Hochul positioned the investment as a national priority. “The Chinese are trying to dominate this industry,” she said. “We have…

University of Pennsylvania President Elizabeth Magill resigned Saturday, four days after she was criticized for her responses during a congressional hearing Tuesday in which she was pressed, alongside the presidents of Harvard and MIT, on whether students calling for the genocide of Jews should be disciplined.Ms. Magill appeared to dodge the question and drew sharp criticism from donors, students and others, some of whom were already angry because she had allowed a Palestinian writers' conference to take place on campus in September. Ms. Magill is the first president of a major university to resign due to the fallout from protests…

What are the effects of hybrid work on employees' working conditions? The latter respond in a paradoxical way: 92% of them experience their teleworking situation well or very well, but 35% consider that working time is longer remotely than in person, according to the Observatory's first study. . teleworking, led by the General Union of Executive Engineers and Technicians (Ugict) of the CGT. This observatory, created in December 2022, brings together scientists (sociologists, psychologists, economists, etc.) and trade unionists, in order to better understand the evolution of the phenomenon by promoting reference work on teleworking and by organizing its own…

Clara Ysé, in the Sarragan quarry, in Baux-de-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône), November 1, 2022. OLIVIER METZGER By Lacanian homophony, there is the mother, the philosopher and psychoanalyst Anne Dufourmantelle, who died in 2017, at the age of 53, on a beach in Ramatuelle (Var), after having rescued two children who were in danger of drowning. And there is the sea, towards which the first album of the singer and novelist Clara Ysé turns. From its beautiful title, Oceano Noxborrowed from Virgil'sAeneid : “And ruit oceano nox” (“and the night rushes from the ocean”). It is tempting, and misleading, to interpret this record…

A national advocacy group has retracted its startling estimate that "organized retail crime" was responsible for nearly half of the $94.5 billion in missing store merchandise in 2021, a figure that helped amplify claims that the United States was experiencing a nationwide surge in shoplifting.The group, the National Retail Federation, edited that claim last week from a widely cited report released in April, after the trade publication. Retail Diving revealed that faulty data was used to arrive at an inaccurate figure.The retraction comes as retail chains like Target continue to claim they are victims of massive shoplifting operations that have…

You never know what you might find in a famous person's typewriter. Joe DiMaggio's old machine contained the cut fragments of his expired credit card. Steve Soboroff, who purchased the typewriter from the Yankees Hall of Fame in 2011, found the small pieces under the keys while cleaning it.Mr. Soboroff also unearthed childhood photos of Ernest Hemingway in the writer's 1926 Underwood Standard Portable. But Mr. Soboroff's greatest discovery with these machines — and others, including typewriters owned by Maya Angelou, Tennessee Williams, John Lennon and Shirley Temple — was a historic connection to wonderful people.“It’s really hard for me…

Yellow, the trucking company that shut down operations and filed for bankruptcy protection this summer, on Wednesday rejected a trucking industry executive's offer to buy and restructure its company.In a letter sent to the potential buyer, Yellow's lawyers claimed the offer was "not viable", saying they had received no indication that the offer had the support of the company's creditors. company, including from the Treasury Department, which had provided an emergency loan. to business during the pandemic.The letter, a copy of which was reviewed Thursday by The New York Times, also says the plan to revive Yellow underestimates the costs…

For Moscow, peace implies a neutral and amputated Ukraine Comforted by the failure of the Ukrainian counter-offensive, Russia believes more than ever that peace requires a Ukraine deprived of its southern and eastern regions, said Maria Zakharova, the spokesperson for Russian diplomacy, in an interview . written with Agence France-Presse. In addition, she reaffirmed the official line that the Russian army attacked its neighbor on February 24, 2022 to protect Russia and Russian-speakers in Ukraine from Westerners. “We do not allow the existence near our borders of an aggressive Nazi state whose territory will constitute a source of danger for…