Debt Cancellation: Taxi Drivers Savor Victory as Medallion Debt Bailout Deal Ends Hunger Strike
How New York City taxi drivers won a rare and much needed debt restructuring.
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Deere Union Members Reject Second Management Offer; Key Demands Include Greater Workplace Say
Deere union members at 12 of 14 factories put the screws on management by rejecting their latest offer.
Read more...866-662-3339: The “Equifax” Verification Fraud as Illustration of Pervasive Scamming in the US
How fraudsters at 866-662-3339 pretend to be affiliated with Equifax but scream otherwise with their conduct, plus how to mess with them.
Read more...‘The Supreme Court Could Destroy the Planet’: Review of EPA Power Triggers Alarm
“This is the equivalent of an earthquake around the country for those who care deeply about the climate issue.”
Read more...War on Cash: NYC Enforces its Cashless Business Ban
NYC sides with those who want to use cash and enforces its cashless business ban, hitting ice cream shop Van Leeuwen with $12000 in fines.
Read more...Emergency Room Doctors’ Lobbyist Admits to Large-Scale Medicare Billing Fraud by Members, Criminal Corporate Practice of Medicine by PE Firms
Private equtiy stealing from babies…um, oldsters….um, Medicare. Who’d have thunk it?
Read more...Wall Street Journal Provides New Evidence of Facebook Politically-Driven Intervention in Content
Some Facebook internal chats reveal its censorship, um, moderation to be a hot mess.
Read more...Jared Holst: RBG – Political Incorrectness v. the Merch Machine (From the Archives)
Thanks to Katie Couric, we’ve learned RBG had more to say about all that kneeling during the anthem stuff.
Read more...Brexit: David Frost’s Bluster Can’t Wish Away the Northern Ireland Protocol
Many Brexiters see Article 16 as a ‘get out of jail free’ card for the Northern Ireland protocol. Here’s why they’re wrong
Read more...Microsoft Endorses Right to Repair; Apple Doubles Down on Opposition
Microsoft responds to a shareholder resolution by supporting the right to repair, at least in theory; Apple remains opposed.
Read more...‘Waive the Patents’: Moderna Still Refuses to Share Covid-19 Vaccine Recipe
Modern refuses to share vaccine recipe and acts as if they have absolutely no responsibility beyond maximizing their return on investment.
Read more...Never Mind the Pandora Papers: Why Secrecy Still Rules in the UK
Thanks to poor drafting and a lack of enforcement, anti-secrecy legislation intended to make it clearer who owns UK companies isn’t working
Read more...European Investment Scammers Allegedly Laundered Their Money through Scotland
Investigations by European and Ukrainian prosecutors revealed an alleged investment fraud with funds laundered via UK corporate entities
Read more...NLRB General Counsel Authors Memo Characterizing ‘Student-Athletes’ as Employees, Clearing Way for Them to Unionize; Employment Law Implications Extend to Others Misclassified as Independent Contractors
NLRB general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo outlines arguments for treating college athletes as employees, thus allowing them employment law protections.
Read more...Ralph Nader: While Americans Sleep, Our Corporate Overlords Make Progress Impossible
Politicians from both parties do the bidding of their corporate overlords rather than act on behalf of voters.
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