For thousands of out-of-work Floridians, the abrupt stop to their weekly $600 federal unemployment checks was a mystery. They had been approved for and been collecting Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation for weeks, on top of their state benefits, but around Memorial Day week, the checks inexplicably ceased.
Restaurant workers laid off at Orlando’s airport protested Wednesday, calling for the airport authority to require concessionaires to rehire former workers and establish mandatory health protections as a condition of rent waivers the restaurants and other businesses are receiving from the authority. The airport is very gradually coming back to life.
The two companies didn’t take a chance to try to settle antitrust concerns with an early-stage offer that had to be submitted by Wednesday, Bloomberg reported. Longer probes can allow companies to argue for fewer concessions or to hammer out more complicated divestments.
The vehicles are Bentayga V8 SUVs built between January 2018 and March 2020, mostly for the U.S. market.
On Tuesday (June 9), Taylor Swift made a powerful anti-racist statement and urged fans to vote.