NLRB general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo outlines arguments for treating college athletes as employees, thus allowing them employment law protections.
Read more...Politicians from both parties do the bidding of their corporate overlords rather than act on behalf of voters.
Read more...Conviction of Steven Donziger, said one critic, “perfectly encapsulates how corporate power has twisted the U.S. justice system to protect corporate interests and punish their enemies.”
Read more...As deaths rise at Rikers, legislators and the press are having a hard look at the horrific conditions.
Read more...Involuntary psychiatric care is regularly a financial scam as well as an abuse of personal rights, yet patients often have little recourse.
Read more...The Milton Friedman “school choice” scheme in the 1950s aimed to block equal, integrated education for black families.
Read more...Bad enough that Elizabeth Holmes could conceivably wriggle out of a conviction. Even if she loses. we’ll have to endure her “Holmies”.
Read more...Gig workers, specifically deliveristas, are en route to securing important workplace protections, like minimum wages and bathroom rights.
Read more...Why the proposed CalPERS long-term care insurance settlement has the look and feel of a con job.
Read more...An important new paper puts another big chink in private equity’s armor.
Read more...“That was not a ‘mistake,'” said journalist Anand Giridharadas. “War crimes are not oopsies.”
Read more...The NCAA has changed its rules so that student-athletes can profit from commercial endorsement deals that use their names, images, and likenesses.
Read more...In the midst of the pandemic, more than half of U.S. states have passed legislation taking away the powers state and local officials use to protect the public against infectious diseases.
Read more...A key fact in CalPERS’ long-term care debacle: the giant fund flagrantly violated the statute govening this progam.
Read more...Biden’s EPA yesterday moved to take steps to block the controversial Pebble Mine, which threatens the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery.
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