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LOUISVILLE. Ludvig Åbergs PGA-mästerskap var över efter två dagar. Men det betyder att han i alla fall hinner se Jürgen Klopps sista ligamatch. – Supertråkigt att se honom lämna mitt kära Liverpool, säger storsupporten Åberg.

LOUISVILLE. Ludvig Åbergs PGA-mästerskap är över. Efter den omtumlande morgonen som rådde på Valhalla missade svensken cutten i natt. – Det var inte tillräckligt bra, det är frustrerande, säger Åberg.

LOUISVILLE. Nu kommer första uppgifterna från polisens sida om vad som hände när världsettan Scottie Scheffler stoppades på vägen till PGA-mästerskapet tidigt under fredagsmorgonen. Enligt polisen ”vägrade han lyda” – och drog omkull polismannen, som fick tas till sjukhus. Golfstjärnan ska redan ha fått ett datum då han ska inställa sig i rätten i Louisville.

LOUISVILLE. Ludvig Åberg hade marginalerna emot sig i morse när han gick ut på PGA-mästerskapets första dag. Men efter tre snabba birdies på andrahalvan räddade svenskstjärnan upp rundan.  Svensken gick i mål ett slag över par. – Det är jobbigt när man inte träffar fairway, säger Åberg efter rundan.

LOUISVILLE. Ludvig Åberg säger att han mår bra och inte har några problem med knät. Men dagen före starten av PGA-mästerskapet medger han att han gått uppvärmingsrundorna med en skena på benet. – Det är en säkerhetsåtgärd, säger Åberg.

Strejken i den amerikanska bilindustrin växer. Nu tar fackförbundet UAW ut 8 700 arbetare vid Fords fabrik i Louisville i delstaten Kentucky i strejk.

Servera en öl, rädda ett liv. Allt fler amerikanska barer har utrustats med Narcan, en nässprej som är motgift mot opioider, till följd av att framför allt fentanylrelaterade överdoser skjuter i höjden. Det skriver The New York Times i ett reportage. En stillsam lördagskväll förra året fick Kevin Foehrkolb, bartender på en irländsk pub i Maryland, rycka in när en gäst plötsligt tuppade av. Mannens ögon rullade bakåt och han var alldeles gul i ansiktet. – Jag trodde det var något som händer på nattklubben bredvid. Inte på ett lugnt ställe som detta, där folk spelar spel och tar ett glas, säger han. As fentanyl overdoses in public spaces spike, the lifesaving drug Narcan is being stocked by more and more bars and restaurants. By Priya Krishna and Eleanore Park 15 August, 2023 Kevin Foehrkolb was tending bar on a routine Saturday night last September at Kent House Irish Pub in Towson, Maryland, when he heard a commotion from the corner booth where a group of regular customers were playing the card game Magic: The Gathering. “They were the type to drink beer, not get rowdy or do shots,” he said. When he ran over, he saw that one man’s face had turned yellow and his eyes had rolled back in his head. He was overdosing. From behind the bar, Foehrkolb grabbed Narcan — a nasal spray version of naloxone, a drug that reverses opioid overdose — then tilted the man’s head back and pushed the plunger to release the dose. The customer woke up and was taken to the hospital. Foehrkolb, still jarred from the experience, returned to his shift. “I thought it would be something that happens at the club next door,” he said. “Not so much at a quiet place where people are just playing games in a corner, casually drinking.” As the opioid crisis in the United States continues to worsen — deaths from such drugs more than doubled, to 105,000 from January 2015 to January, according to federal data — overdoses are now happening with regularity in or around social spaces like restaurants and bars. City officials and nonprofit organizations are working to get Narcan, which became available over the counter in March, to those businesses where it can be immediately useful. The jobs of service workers like Foehrkolb now include reversing an overdose. To some in the business, keeping Narcan on hand seems an obvious move — like stocking any other first-aid supplies, said Jed Thompson, the general manager of Mean Eyed Cat, a bar in Austin, Texas. But many others feel daunted by joining the front lines of yet another health crisis, after a pandemic they spent verifying vaccine cards and enforcing mask-wearing. “It shouldn’t be on these bartenders making no money,” said Ryan Purdy, who works at a Philadelphia brewery that stocks Narcan. “It should be on someone trained for it, who is expected to save lives.” Much of the spike in overdose deaths is due to fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that can be easily combined with recreational drugs like cocaine without the user’s knowledge. Even in minute amounts, fentanyl can be lethal. In New York City, fentanyl was present in 80% of overdose deaths in 2021, according to the city’s health department. And in Maryland, where Foehrkolb works, the state’s Opioid Operational Command Center reported that the drug killed 2,310 people from March 2022 to March, about 16 times as many as heroin. The results are already evident in the hospitality business. Last year, when Shreeta Waldon, the executive director of the nonprofit Kentucky Harm Reduction Coalition, looked at the Louisville ZIP codes where calls to emergency services were made about overdoses, almost all were in neighborhoods filled with bars, she said. She regularly visits restaurants and bars to pass out Narcan and train staff on its use, reassuring them that if someone is not overdosing, the spray won’t do any harm. Owners often resist stocking Narcan, thinking that it will invite drug use, she said. At the same time, the workers she is training frequently pull her aside and ask to have a dose for themselves, either to treat someone they come across or in case of their own overdose. (Historically, the restaurant business has had high rates of substance abuse.) “Our goal is to normalize it and make it as much a part of our normal life as possible,” Waldon said. Restaurants can play a big role in that normalization, said Dr. Michael L. Barnett, an associate professor at Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. “Everyone goes to restaurants or bars, and that raises the awareness of that problem,” Barnett said. He compared restaurants keeping Narcan on hand with the coffee shops that stopped using plastic straws, helping to shift public opinion against their use. “The effects of that can be hard to measure for a while, but I think they add up to something important.” Restaurants and bars are also public places that anyone can visit, said Max Moreland, an owner of FBR Management, which operates several bars in Austin that stock Narcan. Overdoses occur in other settings, he said, but “they can’t put Narcan in everybody’s house.” Noël Swain, the manager of Kent House, said that at bars, “there’s a feeling of community and social responsibility.” The accessible nature of these spaces is especially important for marginalized groups like LGBTQ+ people and racial minorities, who are disproportionately affected by the spread of fentanyl and may feel most comfortable picking up an emergency supply of Narcan at a bar, said Kochina Rude (whose legal name is Cary Escovedo), a drag queen who conducts Narcan training as part of a weekly drag show at the Oasis nightclub in San Francisco. “Nightclubs, restaurants, bars and hospitality venues are community spaces that can empower underserved communities that might face medical discrimination,” she said. “Even though that’s not necessarily what they’ve signed up to do, working in the nightlife industry, that’s the de facto of what ends up happening.” Rude receives her Narcan supply from the city’s Drug Overdose Prevention and Education (DOPE) Project, which distributed more than 84,000 doses of naloxone from July 2022 to June. Others have received free Narcan from local nonprofit organizations and city public health departments, or as part of settlement deals with opioid manufacturers. And the drug isn’t just staying parked behind a bar — it’s being used. According to the DOPE Project’s data, its naloxone was used in 8,765 overdose reversals in San Francisco during that same time period. In Portland, Oregon, where Mauricio Sanchez is a barista, similar scenarios are playing out. Two months ago, he had just finished serving a drink at Deadstock Coffee, when he stepped outside and saw a man collapsed nearby, surrounded by people who said the man had overdosed. Sanchez grabbed the Narcan in Deadstock’s storage lockers and gave two doses to the man, who regained consciousness. Sanchez was grateful that the shop had Narcan. But in a place like Portland, where opioid use has become endemic, he said government agencies weren’t taking enough responsibility for the problem. “They are expecting small businesses to look out for these people and help,” he said. “It feels like that is unfair.” Officials in some cities said that giving Narcan to restaurants is not meant to shift government duties onto workers. “We are not saying it is the responsibility of the restaurant staff to take this on alone,” said Deepa Avula, the executive deputy commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. “But recognizing that this problem is prevalent in our city, we need to give individuals tools to help address the problem.” Some workers said their service experience made them distinctly qualified to respond to an overdose. “Bartenders and hospitality workers thrive on constantly having our eyes on 10 things at once and making sure someone hasn’t been over-served,” said Bridget Murphy, a co-owner of the worker-owned pizza shop Extra Extra in Buffalo, New York, which keeps Narcan with its medical supplies. Some of Murphy’s friends in the restaurant business told her they couldn’t understand why a pizzeria would carry Narcan. “I think in the same way where you can just go anywhere and ask if they have ibuprofen, you should also have Narcan in those spaces,” she said. But ibuprofen doesn’t carry the stigma that Narcan does. In summer 2021, a man overdosed while having a drink outside Donnybrook, a bar on New York’s Lower East Side. Maria Christenson, a manager, sprayed Narcan up his nose, reviving him. Yet even since the overdose incident, Meghan Joye, who runs Donnybrook, said she has hesitated to tell patrons that she has Narcan. “I didn’t want to be viewed as a safe place to do drugs,” she said. Kasey Anderson, the director of development and community engagement at the Alano Club, a recovery center in Portland, has heard this argument from bar owners many times. “You have a fire extinguisher on hand,” she said. “Does it invite someone to commit arson?” Being prepared to use Narcan is just part of having a service job, said Ellen Wirshup, a bartender who started Project Red, a Portland nonprofit that gives out Narcan. “We are already put in that role where we are providing service, providing care for other people,” she said. © 2023 The New York Times Company. Read the original article at The New York Times.

McDonald’s är ett av världens största varumärken och deras logotyp känns igen världen över. Men nu är det inte bara deras saftiga burgare eller krispiga pommes frites som gör att företaget är i ropet. 

Det har nämligen kommit uppgifter om att McDonald’s-restauranger haft två tioåriga barn anställda. Barnen ska ha synts arbeta så sent som klockan två på morgonen utan att få betalt. Sanningen bakom loggan på McDonald's – inte som du tror McDonald's-restauranger under utredning

Enligt CNN har det amerikanska US Department of Labor, motsvarande det svenska Arbetsmarknadsdepartementet, slagit fast att barnen ska ha arbetat sena nätter på en restaurang i Louisville, Kentucky. Avslöjandet ska dessutom vara en del av en större utredning som bedrivs, där de utreder brott mot barnarbetsrätten. 

Arbetsmarknadsdepartementet ska också ha kommit fram till att tre olika restaurangägare driver mer än 60 McDonald's-restauranger i Kentucky, Indiana, Maryland och Ohio. Där ska de ha anställt 305 barn som ska ha arbetat mer än den tillåtna gränsen. De ska även ha tvingats utföra arbetsuppgifter som enligt lag ska vara förbjudna. Barnen ska dessutom ha arbetat utan att få betalt. 

Tillsammans tvingas nu de tre restaurangägarna att betala böter på totalt 212 754 dollar, vilket motsvarar drygt 208 000 svenska kronor.  McDonald’s-anställd avslöjar: Det här HATAR jag när kunderna beställer McDonald's får kritik i sociala medier Händelsen har även blivit viral på sociala medier där klipp nu sprids och kommentarsfält fylls med åsikter och kommentarer kring restaurangens agerande. "Böterna är för milda. Inga lärdomar kommer att dras. De kommer bara att fortsätta vad de gör och dölja det bättre", skriver en person på Tiktok. En annan tycker att 200 000 dollar är alldeles för lite och anser att restaurangerna istället bör försättas i konkurs.  McDonald's svarar: Därför bär personalen i köket inte handskar Foto: Skärmavbild Tiktok/nosybystandersFoto: Skärmavbild Tiktok/nosybystanders Men det är inte bara företaget McDonald's som får utstå kritik. Kommentarer och höjda röster riktas även mot barnens föräldrar där många tycker att de inte bör ha låtit händelsen inträffa.  "Det här är galet. Jag visste alltid var mina barn var när de var 10 år. Hur kunde föräldrarna låta detta hända?", skriver en upprörd person på Tiktok. En annan frågar helt sonika om föräldrarna också kommer få böter. Foto: Skärmavbild Tiktok/nosybystandersFoto: Skärmavbild Tiktok/nosybystanders – Dessa rapporter är oacceptabla, djupt oroande och står i strid med de höga förväntningar vi har på hela McDonald’s-varumärket, säger Tiffanie Boyd, senior vice president och chief people officer på McDonald’s USA till CBS News.

Här kan du läsa ännu mer nyhet om snabbmatskedjorna: Trender, avslöjanden och nyheter.

Hundratals barn har jobbat på tok för många timmar på ett 60-tal McDonald's-restauranger i USA, visar en utredning av amerikanska myndigheter. På en restaurang i Louisville arbetade två tioåringar – ibland så sent som till klockan två på natten, rapporterar CNN.