How a Group of Starbucks Workers Emerged Victorious in Their Union Fight
How Starbucks, long hostile to unions, lost a fight with workers in Buffalo despite management pulling out all the stops.
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On the Loss of Public Spiritedness in the West and the Impact on Politics
The boundaries between politics and commerce aren’t as clear in Japan and China as in the West, and we may not be better off for that.
Read more...Build Back Better Verges on Collapse as Manchin Attempts to Kill Child Tax Credit
How Manchin is putting a lump of coal in Biden’s Christmas stocking.
Read more...Thomas Ferguson: Is the U$A a Democracy?
Thomas Ferguson, a top expert on money and politics, weighs in on how much democracy is there with so much wealth and power in so few hands.
Read more...Being Rich Does Not Make You More Generous. It Makes You Meaner.
Why relying on the kindness of strangers, particularly rich ones, is not such a hot idea.
Read more...The US Doesn’t Have Enough Faculty To Train the Next Generation of Nurses
Nurses’ ranks were being hollowed out even before Covid due to not instructing enough to fill rising needs. That shortfall getting worse.
Read more...Amazon’s Deathtrap Warehouse in Edwardsville, IL: Will Bessemer, AL Be Next?
Social murder in Edwardsville.
Read more...Culture Wars: Identity Politics and the Fight Against Surveillance Capitalism
Why identity politics is just another face of neoliberalism.
Read more...‘Inexcusable’: Amazon Under Fire After Warehouse Collapse Kills at Least Six
“Requiring workers to work through such a major tornado warning event as this was inexcusable.”
Read more...Hoisted from Comments: How the Democrats Lost Flyover
The Democrats shafted flyover and flyover is returning the favor.
Read more...Share Buybacks Surge to Record Ahead of Potential 1% Tax: Companies Buy as Insiders Dump like there’s No Tomorrow
Buy High, Don’t Buy Low. Prices are sky-high and but company buybacks are red hot.
Read more...How To Compare Incomes Across Countries
Economists’ comparisons of incomes make social democracies look bad by not attributing value to government healthcare and cheap college.
Read more...Extreme Weather and Pandemic Help Drive Global Food Prices to 46-Year High
Crop shortages are a big contritucor to high food prices, and the fundamentals aren’t likely to revert to the old normal.
Read more...How the Build Back Better Bill Would Save Workers’ Lives
Build Back Better promises to strengthen OHSA. Why is it is in such sorry shape and why has Team Dem said little about workers’ protection?
Read more...Why Do We Need a 24/7 Economy?
Lessons from the ice cream factory
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