#GoodNews from #Virginia: Employees at Lewis Ginger Botanical Gardens just voted to unionize, joining IAM.

From Henrico Citizen:
“Efforts to unionize have bolstered employee morale and caused increasing comradery among the different departments”

This follows employees at TrueTimber recently voting to join IAM. Union membership increased 0.6% from 2022 to 2023 in Virginia, while national numbers held.

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Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden workers to vote on unionization

The workers at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden filed for union representation last month amid employee-voiced workplace concerns, which range from lack of equipment to safety policies.

^{Nick Caffacus, VCU Capital News Service (Henrico Citizen)}

#GoodNews "The #Guardian has more than 80 accounts on X with approximately 27 million followers ... We will stop posting from our official editorial accounts on the platform, but X users can still share our articles. X is a toxic media platform and that its owner, Elon Musk, has been able to use its influence to shape political discourse."

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Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X

^{The Guardian}

"Two students who discovered a seemingly impossible proof to the Pythagorean theorem in 2022 have wowed the math community again with nine completely new solutions to the problem."

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High school students who came up with 'impossible' proof of Pythagorean theorem discover 9 more solutions to the problem

In a new peer-reviewed study, Ne'Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson outlined 10 ways to solve the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry, including a proof they discovered in high school.

^{Sascha Pare (Live Science)}