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NEW YORK AP 鈥?Six straight days of 12-hour driving.聽Single digit paychecks.聽The complaints come from workers in vastly different industries:聽UPS delivery drivers聽and Hollywood actors and writers.But they point to an underlying factor driving a surge of labor unrest: The cost to workers whose jobs have changed drastically as companies scramble to meet customer expectations for speed and convenience in industries transformed by technology.The COVID-19 pandemic聽accelerated those changes,聽pushing retailers to shift online and intensifying the streaming competition among entertainment companies. Now, from the picket lines, workers are trying to giv stanley cup e consumers a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to produce a show that can be binged any time or get dog food delivered to their doorstep with a phone swipe.READ MORE: Strikes rock Hollywood hit by streaming revolution, pandemic standstillOverworked and underpaid employees is an enduring complaint across industries 鈥?from delivery drivers to Starbucks baristas and airline pilots 鈥?where surges in consumer demand have collided with persistent labor shortages. Workers are pushing back against forced overtime, punishing schedules or company reliance on lower-paid, part-time or contract forces.At issue for Hollywood screenwriters and actors staging their聽first si stanley cup multaneous strikes in 40 years聽is the way streaming has upended entertainment economics, slashing pay and fo stanley cup rcing showrunners to produce content faster with smaller teams. Th Nuld Senate GOP to Obama: Don t bother nominating to Court
NOUR SHAMS REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank AP 鈥?Two Palestinians were killed during an Israeli military raid Sunday in the northern West Bank, Palestinian health officials said, the latest bloodshed in a surge of violence during a sensitive Jewish holiday period.The Israeli military said it moved into the Nour Shams refugee camp, near the town of Tulkarem, to destroy what it described as a militant command center and yeezy bomb-storage facility in a building.It said that engineering units detonated a number of bombs planted under roads and that militants opened stanley cup fire and hurled explosives, as troops responded with live fire.The Palestinian Health Ministry said two men 鈥?Asid Abu Ali, 21, and Abdulrahman Abu Daghash, 32 鈥?were killed by Israeli fire. The raid caus stanley cup ed heavy damage to the camp main road, severing water pipes and flooding parts of the street. The ground floor of the targeted building was heavily damaged, while part of the exterior wall of the second floor collapsed.The Hamas militant group claimed Abu Ali as a member.Elsewhere in the West Bank, Birzeit University, a major Palestinian institution, said the Israeli army carried out a rare raid on its campus near the city of Ramallah and arrested nine students, including the head of the student council. It said the students were all supporters of the Hamas militant group. The university denounced the raid, which it said caused damage to university property.The Israeli military claimed the suspects were plotting an attack