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More than 17,000 AT&T workers in southeastern states, including roughly 600 to 700 workers in Kentucky, entered their fourth week of striking over what they say are unfair labor practices.

Hourly workers at Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant (KTP) in Louisville are now on the picket lines, joining a United Auto Workers strike that began almost a month ago. The president of the city’s UAW chapter says workers at the company’s Louisville Assembly Plant could be off the job soon.

The United Parcel Service and Teamsters union announced Tuesday that negotiators struck a new five-year deal affecting about 340,000 full- and part-time workers, including at least 12,000 Louisville-area employees.

Representatives for the United Parcel Service and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters plan to resume talks Tuesday on a new five-year national contract for full- and part-time employees.

In the Ohio Valley, the stresses of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing labor shortage have encouraged workers to join what many say is a national and growing wave of labor actions.

\Union workers at one of Kentucky’s biggest bourbon distillers are going on strike.The decision impacts Jim Beam employees who are members of the local…