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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The National Association of Letter Carriers is preparing to deny city letter carriers even the right to vote on their next contract if closed-door mediation with the US Postal Service proceeds directly to binding arbitration. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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NALC union prepares to deny letter carriers right to contract vote as historic USPS cuts loom
If no tentative agreement is reached, according to NALC, “unresolved issues would be addressed through an interest arbitration process,” producing “a final and binding decision on the contents of a ne...
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ruthsny.bsky.social @ruthsny.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
. Postal and delivery workers remain on their routes without protection, and the union apparatus has done nothing www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Shut down plants and workplaces amidst spreading toxic air!
Wildfire smoke from Canada and Minnesota has given Detroit the worst air quality in the world. The International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees calls for workers to take independent acti...
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ruthsny.bsky.social @ruthsny.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Logistics and warehouse workers are also vulnerable to extreme heat. Most postal delivery and UPS vehicles still lack air conditioning, putting drivers at risk. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Workers swelter at worksites and in factories, as new heat wave moves across the United States
Some US locations have already seen the highest temperatures ever recorded, as a heat dome moves east, creating unhealthy and dangerous conditions at workplaces and factories that lack adequate coolin...
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ruthsny.bsky.social @ruthsny.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
“Disgust with corruption is not enough. The question is: What are we going to do about it? It is not enough to complain. We must act.” www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Rank-and-file candidate for UAW president calls for abolition of union bureaucracy as criminal probe of Shawn Fain continues
Will Lehman, a Mack Trucks worker in Macungie, Pennsylvania, who was nominated for UAW president at last month's Constitutional Convention on a program of abolishing the union bureaucracy, issued a st...
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ruthsny.bsky.social @ruthsny.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
As with the deaths in Michigan and Georgia, the lack of transparency surrounding the incident at Morgan underscores the need for postal workers to speak out collectively, document and participate in a worker-led investigation independent of USPS management and the union www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Postal employees say coworker died on the job at Morgan PDC in Midtown Manhattan
At the time of writing, neither the postal service nor the postal unions have issued any public statement acknowledging the worker's death or explaining the circumstances surrounding it.
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ruthsny.bsky.social @ruthsny.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
The time has come to take a stand ,to take control of safety conditions, guarantee the right to life, health and safety on the job, and end the dictatorship of production for profit. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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“They treat us like property”: Postal workers in Detroit, Atlanta outraged over workplace deaths of Nick Acker and Russell Scruggs Jr.
“It’s a shame what they are doing. And they are doing all over the place. They are so damn greedy. The top 1 percent, what do they control? 60 percent of all the wealth? They are getting it all, but w...
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ruthsny.bsky.social @ruthsny.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Time To Take A Stand !!! www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Postal workers: Come forward with information on workplace deaths and unsafe conditions!
“The only way we will see justice is if we reveal the truth, hold accountable those responsible for the conditions that put us in harm’s way, and set up our own shop floor organizations to take contro...
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ruthsny.bsky.social @ruthsny.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
worker‑led inquiry is essential: to collect the facts honestly and build a case. The only way we will see justice is if we reveal the truth, hold accountable those responsible for the conditions that put us in harm’s way, and set up our own shop floor organizations www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Postal workers: Come forward with information on workplace deaths and unsafe conditions!
“The only way we will see justice is if we reveal the truth, hold accountable those responsible for the conditions that put us in harm’s way, and set up our own shop floor organizations to take contro...
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ruthsny.bsky.social @ruthsny.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
The Communication Workers Union’s (CWU) letter-writing campaign urging postal workers to contact their Member of Parliament (MP) for urgent action to “Protect Postal Services” is a political fraud from top to bottom !!! www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Reject CWU’s Royal Mail letter writing stunt
The pre-written email piles one falsehood on another to cover up the CWU leadership’s record of betrayal.
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ruthsny.bsky.social @ruthsny.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
ALERT USPS another Union Sellout !!! The deal—which involves both the Urban and RSMC bargaining units—was struck in total secrecy. The union, moreover, is refusing to provide the membership with a single concrete detail of its contents www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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CUPW capitulates to government-management jobs massacre at Canada Post with “agreement in principle”
Postal workers must immediately move to countermand this sellout through the formation of independent rank-and-file committees in every postal sorting plant and depot across Canada.
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ruthsny.bsky.social @ruthsny.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
The time has come to take a stand ,to take control of safety conditions, guarantee the right to life, health and safety on the job, and end the dictatorship of production for profit. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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“They treat us like property”: Postal workers in Detroit, Atlanta outraged over workplace deaths of Nick Acker and Russell Scruggs Jr.
“It’s a shame what they are doing. And they are doing all over the place. They are so damn greedy. The top 1 percent, what do they control? 60 percent of all the wealth? They are getting it all, but w...
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ruthsny.bsky.social @ruthsny.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The time has come to take a stand. An independent investigation into the deaths of Nick Acker, Russell Scruggs, Jr. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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For a rank-and-file inquiry into the deaths of USPS workers Nick Acker and Russell Scruggs, Jr.!
An inquiry, organized by workers and not corrupt union bureaucrats, is needed to arm workers with the knowledge they need to defend themselves and go on the offensive against the regime of corporate d...
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ruthsny.bsky.social @ruthsny.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Russell died in the plant when his head hit the ground after falling. The exact cause of his fall remains unclear, but workers raised concerns over the lack of medical protocol and zero cell phone service in the building, which causes delays in their ability to get help www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Postal worker Russell Scruggs Jr. dies at Palmetto, Georgia distribution center
Russell Scruggs Jr. was 44 years old and had just started work at the USPS distribution center three weeks earlier.
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ruthsny.bsky.social @ruthsny.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Many questions remain unanswered in the week since the death of Nick Acker, a 36-year-old maintenance mechanic at the Allen Park USPS Detroit Network Distribution Center (DNDC) on November 8. links.wsws.org/ls/click?upn...
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“Why are people dying?”: Postal worker speaks out on death of Nick Acker
“I genuinely think that the Post Office feels that the American people want their mail at all costs, and I think that that is not correct. I think that the American people would rather have their mail...
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 07/09/2025
I don't want to start a thing so I'll just say that there will never be a good argument for privatizing USPS. That would be like privatizing libraries. The aim of services isn't to be run for profit, they are for serving the greater good, which USPS has been extremely successful at.
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5 Calls @5calls.org · 31/08/2025
Workers built this country. Not billionaires, or Wall Street, or private equity... YOU. This Labor Day, take a stand to stop the billionaire takeover and fight for the real wins workers deserve! #WorkersOverBillionaires Join us for a day of action near you: www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...
Labor Day 2025 event flyer #workersoverbillionairesIt's not too late to join Labor Day 2025! 1000+ events Nationwide! Workers Over Billionaires
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
This is why Trump is trying to take over and destroy the USPS. He knows he can’t win without cheating.
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ruthsny.bsky.social @ruthsny.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
A nationwide strike is a powerful tool which cannot be answered with tear gas, bullets and arrests. power to the working class !!!
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ruthsny.bsky.social @ruthsny.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
This reality underscores the decisive role of the working class in the unfolding political crisis. Workers who imagine that Trump’s violent attacks on immigrants or his fraudulent crusade against “crime” have nothing to do with them are gravely mistaken www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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The corporate-financial interests behind Trump’s executive orders to deploy the National Guard in US cities
Trump’s program speaks for a ruling class determined to reverse the entire course of modern American history, tearing up every social advance won through struggle since the Civil War.
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Pocket News 📰 @jeanpocket.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
🚨 BREAKING THIS IS NOT GOOD… #Trump did this…👇👇 “Postal services across Europe are pausing the shipment of “most merchandise” to the U.S. “amid a lack of clarity over new import duties” www.thedailybeast.com/european-pos...
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European Postal Services Halt U.S. Shipments Over Trump’s Tariffs
Commercial packages being shipped from India will also be affected, with more countries expected to announce similar measures.
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Postal services in Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Italy have suspended shipments to the USA due to tariff issues. France and Austria will follow on Monday.
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Dinga @dinga13.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
UK here, we have postal voting, pretty sure there are others, he chats a lot of shit doesn’t he?
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Did they speak back to him?
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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 18/08/2025
Just been told by Instantprint that, due to their now using UPS for deliveries, delivery charges to the Highlands will nearly double because, wait for it, the Highlands isn't part of the 'mainland'. 😬😡😡
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Postal Service
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ruthsny.bsky.social @ruthsny.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
In reality, the USW is complicit in the unsafe conditions, working to block any genuine struggle by steelworkers at the Clairton plant and across the country against the long-standing pattern of hazardous working conditions www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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“This could have been prevented”: Clairton steelworkers speak out after deadly plant explosion
Steelworkers at US Steel’s Clairton Coke Works have come forward to expose the long-standing and deadly safety hazards that preceded Monday’s explosion, which killed Timothy Quinn and Steven Menefee a...
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ruthsny.bsky.social @ruthsny.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
NALC approved USPS decision to make its members work in these unsanitary and dangerous conditions. The union neither consulted with the postal workers or provided them with any protective gear NALC’s actions reveal the hostility to members and its complicity with Mgmt www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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With union’s approval, Irvington, New Jersey letter carriers work in filthy, hazardous post office
By requiring letter carriers to work in a flood-damaged building that smells like sewage, the NALC bureaucracy has shown its open hostility to its members.
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ruthsny.bsky.social @ruthsny.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
A nationwide strike is a powerful tool which cannot be answered with tear gas, bullets and arrests. power to the working class !!!
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ruthsny.bsky.social @ruthsny.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Working Class Rise Up !!! Let’s Go
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Liz Shuler @lizshuler.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Eliminating the collective bargaining rights and union contracts of FEMA workers’ is a slap in the face for the people who help communities after disaster strikes - and it also hurts the communities they help rebuild. America’s unions won’t be silenced. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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ruthsny.bsky.social @ruthsny.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
The massive explosion at the US Steel Clairton Coke Works outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Monday has now killed two workers and injured at least ten others, five of them critically. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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The Clairton Coke Works disaster: Social murder in Pennsylvania
The fatal Clairton Coke Works blast, which claimed two lives and injured ten, exposes decades of unsafe conditions maintained to protect profits at the expense of workers’ lives.
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ruthsny.bsky.social @ruthsny.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
“The way forward is through the initiative of workers themselves,” Lehman said. “We need rank-and-file committees in every plant, controlled by workers—These committees must fight for what workers actually need—safe jobs, full-time employment www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Six UAW locals approve charges against President Fain as bitter infighting erupts within union bureaucracy
The effort to remove Fain is no democratic revolt from below. It is a cynical factional maneuver by officials who share full responsibility for Fain’s crimes.
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ruthsny.bsky.social @ruthsny.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
This must become the launching pad for a renewed fight based on an entirely new strategy—one that breaks the stranglehold of the CUPW bureaucracy and mobilizes the immense social power of the entire working class in a political class struggle www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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What way forward for postal workers after the rejection of Canada Post’s concessions-laden contract?
The contract rejection must become the launching pad for a renewed fight based on an entirely new strategy—one that breaks the stranglehold of the CUPW bureaucracy and mobilizes the immense social pow...
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Outraged Jane @outragedjane.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
More union busting crap that we will NOT stand for! We NEED MORE UNIONS, more UNITING, & more RESISTING EVERYWHERE across our nation! federalnewsnetwork.com/veterans-aff...
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VA says it’s ended most collective bargaining agreements
The decision ends union protections for 377,000 employees, more than three-quarters of VA's workforce.
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Sonny Fa'asala @faasala1.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
I wish they could hack into this clown 🤡 circus administration and take all their money? 🤣
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ruthsny.bsky.social @ruthsny.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
The PennLive report details some $367,107 in raises for the highest ranking members of the commission, including an $86,000 raise for CEO Mark Compton to bring his salary up to $348,118. patch.com/pennsylvania...
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PA Turnpike Used $367K In Toll Money To Give Executives Raises: Report
The raises come as the Turnpike plans to increase its tolls once again in 2026, on top of rates which critics already call "exorbitant."
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Nanners 🌻 @nanners3.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
WE ARE RIGHT NOW, LIVING IN A DICTATORSHIP! AMERICA NEEDS TO WAKE THE FUCK UP! 🇺🇸
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ruthsny.bsky.social @ruthsny.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Mail carrier dies and lays in yard in 94 degrees , No one checks on him for 2 hours !! Outrageous!!!
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ruthsny.bsky.social @ruthsny.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Our social life, our economic life, is organized in a way that continuously produces these disasters, and they will continue until a way is found of putting an end to the system which produces them. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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The death of autoworker Ronald Adams Sr. and the law of capitalist profit
It is the capitalist system that produces tragedies like the death of Ronald Adams Sr., a system that operates in the interests of the ruling class, which derives value and profit from the labor of wo...
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Richard Bellikoff @bellikoff.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Trump fired the BLS commissioner because he didn't like the jobs numbers, but he can't fire the vast majority of American adults who are stressed about the cost of groceries as prices continue to rise and concerns about the impact of his tariffs remain widespread.
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ruthsny.bsky.social @ruthsny.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
What hurt me more than anything is my union. They did not do anything for me, nothing. They always told me, “just abide by what management says.” We’re nothing but slaves. That’s what we are. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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“We’re like slaves”: Stellantis Dundee worker testifies at IWA-RFC hearing on death of Ronald Adams Sr.
John, a former skilled tradesman and co-worker of Ronald Adams, described a pattern of unsafe conditions at the Michigan engine plant during the July 27 hearing on Adams’ death.
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ruthsny.bsky.social @ruthsny.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
While Stater Bros. workers are paid poverty wages, they generated roughly $5 billion in revenue in 2024, according to Forbes. In the first 39 weeks of 2025, Supermarket News reported that Stater Bros. profits were $9.2 million !!! STOP UNION SELLOUTS www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Stater Bros. workers vote overwhelmingly to strike as UFCW moves to sabotage struggle
In a historic vote, 12,000 Stater Bros. grocery workers in Southern California have authorized a strike, but the UFCW is moving rapidly to suppress the struggle and deliver a pro-company contract.
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ruthsny.bsky.social @ruthsny.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Mail carrier dies and lays in yard in 94 degrees , No one checks on him for 2 hours !! Outrageous!!!
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ruthsny.bsky.social @ruthsny.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Never ever can this be justified !!! www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6UDNXkR/
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NALC Branch 913 President Eric Salazar talking about Dan Workman. Dan Workman passed away while delivering mail in Grand Junction, Colorado. 'Enforcing Heat Safety at USPS' Spotify / Apple Podcasts / ...
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Spudislander45 🇨🇦❤️🌎💪🫡 @spudislander45.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Solidarity #CUPW WAGE PACKAGE is a joke. Good they rejected it. Wage disparity between working class and corp is larger than ever. Enough is enough. Pay workers a living wage age. ground.news/article/unio...
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Canada Post union ‘resoundingly and decisively’ reject company’s final offer
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers have “resoundingly and decisively” rejected the company’s final offer in a forced vote from the federal government.
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ruthsny.bsky.social @ruthsny.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
My husband lost his life at Stellantis, but he also gave his life to Stellantis, for 19 years. And since his passing, I have received no answers from MIOSHA or the UAW. Not a letter, not a call, not a single word explaining why or how this happened. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Shamenia Stewart-Adams, widow of Ronald Adams Sr.: “Our family is demanding the truth”
Shamenia Stewart-Adams delivered powerful remarks to the public hearing on the death of her husband at the Dundee Engine Complex.
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