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Chapter 1: What recent actions has President Trump taken regarding Iran?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. President Trump wrote online this morning Iran has taken too long to negotiate a deal. And quote, now they will have to pay the price. This comes after the U.S. attacked sites in Iran this week after the president said Iran downed a U.S. military helicopter. Iran has responded to the strikes with strikes of its own against U.S.
bases in Jordan, Bahrain, and Kuwait.
NPR's Franco Ordonez reports. The president called U.S. strikes on Iran a necessity after a U.S. helicopter went down near the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian officials say they did not target the U.S. helicopter, but Trump called it an attack.
Mona Yakoubian, a former State Department official who now works at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, says Trump was basically in a no-win situation.
If the U.S. doesn't respond, that will be portrayed as weakness. If, on the other hand, the U.S. responds as it should, that opens the way for further escalation.
It also makes it harder to reach a deal that the president had said earlier this week was potentially two or three days away. Franco Ordonez, NPR News.
The House has approved legislation intended to speed up the time it takes newly unionized workers to reach a first contract with their employers. NPR's Andrea Hsu reports.
After a union election, it takes an average of 465 days for workers and employers to reach a first contract. That's according to Bloomberg Law. The Faster Labor Contracts Act cuts that time dramatically. It requires employers to begin contract talks within 10 days of a union election. If there's no deal 90 days later, federal mediators get involved.
And if there's still no deal 30 days after that, an arbitration panel steps in to settle the matter.
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Chapter 2: How does the Faster Labor Contracts Act impact newly unionized workers?
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