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2,000 SoFi Stadium Workers Ratify Contract With $40/Hour Pay and a Right to Strike Over ICE Raids

About 2,000 food service workers at SoFi Stadium ratified a new contract 99% in favor on June 11, 2026, five days after voting 96% to authorize a strike. The contract includes wages above $40 per hour and an explicit right to strike if ICE or Border Patrol activity at the worksite threatens worker safety.

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2,000 SoFi Stadium Workers Ratify Contract With $40/Hour Pay and a Right to Strike Over ICE Raids
Members of the hospitality workers' union UNITE HERE march behind the union banner at a labor rally (file photo). Photo: Jean Paul Holmes / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Industrial Accidents

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Worker Killed at West Virginia Lumber Mill; Sheriff and Safety Agencies Investigating

Hardwood logs stacked at a logging operation (file photo). Photo: Anne LaBastille / U.S. National Archives (DOCUMERICA) (Public domain).

Industrial Accidents

Worker Killed at West Virginia Lumber Mill; Sheriff and Safety Agencies Investigating

Michael D. Martin, 73, of Mannington, West Virginia, was killed in an industrial accident at Appalachian Forest Products in Buckhannon on June 9, 2026. The Upshur County Sheriff's Office and workplace safety agencies are investigating.

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Featured Investigations

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A garden-style apartment complex (file photo). Premises-liability claims over inadequate security most often arise at multifamily residential properties. Photo: Alfred Twu / Wikimedia Commons (CC0).

Investigations

When Property Owners Fail: How Negligent Security Turns Preventable Crimes Into Lawsuits

A crime happens at a commercial property. The police investigate the criminal. But the second question — could the property owner have prevented this? — is the one that drives negligent security litigation.

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An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 on the ramp (file photo). Photo: Boeing / Addison Salzman via Wikimedia Commons (CC0).

Corporate Accountability

Boeing's Safety Culture Remains Broken. The FAA's Oversight Isn't Much Better.

The NTSB determined Boeing's inadequate training and oversight caused the 737 MAX 9 door plug blowout. FAA audits found systemic quality failures. But accountability remains limited.

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Ongoing Litigation Coverage

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Active mass tort and class-action litigation tracked as a news beat — procedural posture, defendants, and the latest filings. Updates as courts move.

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An Ozempic (semaglutide) injection pen with North American English-language labeling, the product at the center of MDL 3094. Photo: Dennis Sylvester Hurd / Wikimedia Commons (CC0).

Lawsuits

In re Ozempic (Semaglutide) / GLP-1 Products Liability

Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly · Eastern District of Pennsylvania (MDL 3094)

Failure to warn of severe gastrointestinal injuries including gastroparesis, bowel obstruction, and NAION vision loss

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A stylist applies a chemical hair relaxer to a client. More than 11,500 women allege in MDL 3060 that long-term use of chemical hair relaxers caused uterine, ovarian, and endometrial cancer. Photo: Envato Elements.

Lawsuits

In re Hair Relaxer Marketing, Sales Practices and Products Liability

L'Oréal, Revlon, Strength of Nature, Namaste Laboratories · Northern District of Illinois (MDL 3060)

Failure to warn that long-term hair relaxer use is linked to uterine and ovarian cancer

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Welcome sign at the Holcomb Gate entrance to Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, the installation at the center of the 1953–1987 water-contamination litigation (file photo, 2008). Photo: U.S. Marine Corps via DVIDS (Public domain).

Lawsuits

In re Camp Lejeune Water Contamination Litigation

United States of America · Eastern District of North Carolina

Contaminated drinking water at Camp Lejeune (1953-1987) linked to cancers and serious illnesses among veterans, families, and civilian workers

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The Thomas F. Eagleton U.S. Courthouse in St. Louis, a federal court venue for multidistrict litigation (file photo). Photo: U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Lawsuits

Mass Tort Tracker — Active MDLs and Class Actions

Multiple defendants · Multiple federal and state courts

Tracking active mass tort and class action litigation: pharmaceutical, medical device, environmental, consumer product, and employment cases

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