About 7,400 members of the ILWU Canada in Vancouver began striking on July 1, demanding better protections for workers and higher wages.

Source: https://bc.ctvnews.ca/tentative-deal-reached-in-b-c-port-strike-ending-13-day-work-stoppage-1.6478524

According to environmental groups, Illinois is at the precipice of a rush of corporations coming in to the state to lay thousands of miles of pipelines without the proper protections in place for neighboring residents.

Source: https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/5/6/23709936/carbon-capture-pipeline-central-illinois-navigator-co2-heartland-greenway

A dispute over American customs officers’ legal protections has kept Nexus enrolment centres closed in Canada more than three months after they reopened south of the border — due in part to a clash over U.S. agents’ right to bear arms on Canadian soil.

Source: https://www.lacombeexpress.com/news/southbound-surges-of-u-s-agents-causing-delays-disarray-at-canada-u-s-border/

AI protections — which have fueled intense debate on both sides — are also in the package as well.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/monicamercuri/2023/11/05/episode-cuts-likely-for-abbott-greys-anatomy-and-more-scripted-shows/

A judge restored federal protections for the animal last year.

Source: https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2023/08/02/wisconsin-regulators-propose-new-wolf-management-plan/

Alameda County has managed to keep evictions about six times under the average with its moratorium, Perigo said, and advocates are pushing for strategies to maintain these levels when protections expire.

Source: https://www.berkeleyside.org/2023/02/24/berkeley-eviction-moratorium-could-be-extended-to-september

An Alberta conservation group says off-highway vehicles are damaging the environment in public lands near Banff and Jasper National Parks, and wants the Alberta government to institute stronger protections.

Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-conservation-group-says-ohvs-are-damaging-trails-in-bighorn-backcountry-1.6923724?cmp=rss

An appeals court concluded J&J misused the bankruptcy process by having a unit seek Chapter 11 protections in hopes of fostering a settlement.

Source: https://fortune.com/2023/09/28/johnson-johnson-more-lawsuits-baby-powder-cancer-judge-throws-settlement-case/

And Medicaid enrollment protections the number of uninsured people by 1.5 million.

Source: https://afro.com/poverty-just-jumped-and-it-was-no-accident/

“And since workers are economically dependent on this work, and they don’t have any sort of basic protections, that’s what is ultimately exploitive.

Source: https://qz.com/online-gig-work-is-growing-rapidly-but-workers-lack-jo-1850812120

An initial draft of the bill included protections against some personal information being introduced as evidence, but the section was withdrawn “to allow the government to consider complexities raised by stakeholders during consultation”.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/aug/19/domestic-violence-perpetrators-are-weaponising-subpoenas-and-advocates-want-australias-law-changed-to-stop-it

Anita Bryant was riling up Florida’s homophobia with her successful 1970s “Save Our Children” campaign to remove anti-discrimination protections in Miami-Dade County.

Source: https://www.metroweekly.com/2023/05/right-wing-bigotry-hides-behind-a-kid-friendly-facade/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=right-wing-bigotry-hides-behind-a-kid-friendly-facade

“Any peace deal should include protections for children and accountability for the many violations committed against children over the last nine years.”

Source: https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/11/20/yemen-prioritize-protection-children

Apple’s buy now pay later product will also offer fraud and consumer protections via MasterCard’s current pay-by-installment model, and will charge merchants fees that are “competitive to other installment products in the market.”

Source: https://www.chiangraitimes.com/tech/apple-buy-now-pay-later/

A second establishment, Signature Financial institution in New York, was additionally positioned in receivership with the identical protections.

Source: https://www.mccourier.com/fdic-problem-bank-list-definition/

Assemblymember Barbara Haney disagreed, citing while she’s heard from people in Ester and Goldstream Valley about trail protections, it’s only a slice of the overall population.

Source: https://www.newsminer.com/news/local_news/assembly-narrowly-votes-down-contentious-trail-ordinance/article_c7f341c4-9389-11ed-97f2-076483324542.html

As such, human rights protections have had a significant impact on ordinary citizens of Antigua and Barbuda.

Source: https://antiguaobserver.com/celebrating-seventy-years-of-the-european-convention-on-human-rights-its-indirect-impact-on-antigua-and-barbuda/

As the DFL has advanced a progressive agenda so far in the legislative session, passing things like abortion rights protections and a clean energy law, they have appeared remarkably united despite their narrow majorities.

Source: https://www.minnpost.com/greater-minnesota/2023/03/its-not-dead-where-repealing-minnesotas-social-security-tax-stands-at-the-legislature/

At a recent news conference, they attacked those efforts as “extreme” attempts to remove protections for fetuses later in pregnancy.

Source: https://www.nhpr.org/politics/2023-02-21/how-nh-lawmakers-are-weighing-changes-to-the-states-abortion-laws-post-roe

At the foundation of the plans to redevelop Union Pier is a complex system of protections against storm surge, tidal flooding and heavy rain events.

Source: https://www.postandcourier.com/news/at-union-pier-a-visionary-flood-management-plan-comes-with-a-price/article_050d2910-c992-11ed-8041-b303bb3bdb12.html