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French unions call for mass protests and strike after French retail group Casino announced to be in financial difficulty, saying it is ready to sell stores to competitors. At the group's headquarters in Saint-Etienne, in east-central France, employees are demonstrating the potential dismantling of their store. IMAGES
Employees at French retailer Casino are demonstrating outside the group's headquarters in Vitry-sur-Seine, south of Paris. Unions called for the protest as thefood retail group has declared itself to be in financial difficulty, saying it is ready to sell stores to competitors. The group owns several supermarket chains such as Monoprix, Franprix, Exito, Pao de Acucar... 200,000 employees work for the Casino group worldwide including 50,000 in France. IMAGES
Susan Walsh/AP; Erin Scott/Reuters There's no love lost between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. The billionaire tech CEOs — who helm Tesla and SpaceX, and Facebook, respectively — have been feuding since at least 2016, when a SpaceX rocket explosion destroyed a Facebook satellite. Since then, they've butted heads over everything from artificial intelligence to Facebook's data-collection practices. Most recently, Musk tied Facebook to the violent insurrection in Washington, DC, describing it as a "domino effect." Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.
Between COVID-19 and various efforts across the country to make it downright difficult to vote, the challenges of voting are becoming increasingly obvious. Following the lead of major retails, US tech giants like Twitter and Salesforce are giving their employees Election Day off in order to vote. According to Business Insider, rideshare company Uber is giving employees the day off as part of their 'Get Out the Vote' effort. Uber is providing links to voter registration sites through its app, and will assist in getting voters to the polls on election day. Other companies, like Apple and Facebook, are encouraging employees to volunteer to be poll workers.
Several hundred employees demonstrate in front of the Nantes headquarters of Hop!, the regional subsidiary of Air France, to protest job cuts. IMAGES
Adam Levine has opened up about the "positive" benefits practicing yoga has had on his life.
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