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March 28, 1968
 Martin Luther King, Jr., leads a march of striking sanitation workers, members of AFSCME Local 1733, in Memphis, Tenn. Violence during the march persuades him to return the following week to Memphis, where he was assassinated. ~Labor Tribune

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Updated: Mar. 28 (22:04)

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Oct. 26, 2016  | JOBS | Uber, best known for it’s ride-hailing app, has been branching out lately. The company’s latest venture: long-haul driverless trucking. It’s still early days for driverless technology: Otto trucks have a driver and an engineer on board at all times. What then, does the arrival of self-driving big rigs mean for truckers and for long-haul shipping companies? “It’s important that there be a full understanding in testing of the potential benefits and risks, as well as limitations – our current infrastructure being one. We believe experienced, skilled drivers will be needed well into the future,” Kara Deniz, press secretary for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, tells The Christian Science Monitor in an email…csmonitor.com
 
 
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