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Amazon to Pay CA $500K After Being Accused of Breaking COVID Workplace Rules
The settlement allows Amazon to deny wrongdoing over its failure to alert workers of COVID outbreaks at its warehouses.
We Could Vaccinate the World 3 Times Over If the Rich Paid the Taxes They Owe
The total $483 billion in tax revenue lost each year is only “the tip of the iceberg,” says one data scientist.
Manchin Lashes Out Against Biden’s Pro-Union Electric Vehicle Tax Credit
Manchin said incentivizing the purchase of electric vehicles only from companies with unions would be “un-American.”
NYC Taxi Drivers Win Debt Relief After 2-Week Hunger Strike
The average debt owed on medallions, the physical permits to operate taxis, is $600,000.
At Least 269 Workers in US Meatpacking Industry Died in First Year of Pandemic
A House subcommittee found there were three times as many cases and deaths among these workers as previously known.
We Work Too Damn Much. Let’s Demand a 4-Day Workweek by 2022.
A four-day workweek would make time to rebalance our lives and also create space for collective action to thrive.
Biden to Address Supply Chain Slowdowns Through Funding From Infrastructure Bill
As his approval rating on the economy drops, President Joe Biden plans to visit the Port of Baltimore on Wednesday.
Starbucks Requests Last-Minute Delay in Union Vote Set for This Week
With a union vote this week, the company’s union-busting tactics have grown ever more desperate.
The COVID Supply Chain Breakdown Can Be Traced to Capitalist Globalization
Given the underlying structural crisis of global capitalism, worldwide economic turbulence is here to stay.
Public Banking Has the Potential to Truly Revolutionize Our Economy
The public banking movement is creating an opening wedge for the transfer of finance from private to public control.