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Democrats And Republicans Unit Over What A Mess The Florida Election Recounts Are

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Democrats And Republicans Unite Over What A Mess The Florida Election Recounts Are If the election doesn't go one way or another, that's fair, one voter said. "But to have all this chaos, it’s just not democracy," she added. Posted on November 17, 2018,  Workers at the Broward County Supervisor of Elections office show Republican and Democratic observers ballots during a hand recount on Nov. 16, 2018.  Florida(Gowidenews)  — Democratic and Republican voters in South Florida’s two most contested counties don’t agree on much, but on this they do: that the election recount has been a giant mess and they’ve lost faith in their electoral system. “My family and I voted for different people — they’re Republicans — but all of us were like, ‘Oh my God, we’re the laughing stock of America right now because we can’t get our shit straight,’” Fallon Williams, a Democrat in her thirties, told Gowidenews. ADVERTISEMENT Members ...

Minimum Wage War in Nigeria: Govs Waging War Against Nigerian Workers on Minimum Wages

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Minimum wage: Govs waging war against workers, says Wabba Published November 18, 2018 President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Ayuba Wabba, has described position taken by governors that they cannot afford N30,000 minimum wage as an expression of a class war they are waging against workers. He reiterated the resolve of organised labour not to accept anything less than N30,000 minimum wage for Nigerian workers, adding, “And we have directed workers to vote out any state governor or his successor who says he is not ready to pay.” He said the governors’ position that states did not have capacity to pay was a distraction which organised labour would not fall for. The governors, after report of the tripartite committee set up by the Federal Government which proposed N30,000 minimum wage was submitted to President Buhari, had expressed a position that many of the states lacked wherewithal to pay such.  But the labour leader, who spoke in Ado Eki...