Oct 7 2019
Save
Save
Vermont Sen. and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders launched a proposal to curb corporate lobbying on Monday,…
Sep 30 2019
Save
Save
Today, Forever 21 joins the long list of retail chains to declare bankruptcy. There is a business story about the…
Sep 5 2019
Save
Save
Where should labor unions be? Labor unions should be where the workers are, and where the money is. And where will…
Sep 3 2019
Save
Save
The United Auto Workers voted to authorize a strike amid contract negotiations. The union represents about 150,000…
Sep 3 2019
Save
Save
The unionized staff at the Los Angeles Times walked out of the newsroom this afternoon to protest the fact that…
Aug 16 2019
Save
This week, gig economy delivery company Postmates ran a full-page ad in the LA Times—signed by more than 1,600 of…
Aug 15 2019
Save
Save
The future of the “gig economy” is on the table in California, where the legislature is considering a bill that…
Aug 9 2019
Save
Save
Luxury fitness chain Equinox has been in the news after evil billionaire owner Stephen Ross decided to host a Trump…
Jun 25 2019
Save
The new AFL-CIO Executive Paywatch report shows that the average CEO of a major public company is paid 287 times more than the median employee. The most satisfying way to fix this is to fire all the CEOs.
Save
Jun 25 2019
Save
Save
Amazon’s “HQ2" debacle—a high-profile nationwide shakedown of state and local governments by a fabulously wealthy…
Jun 12 2019
Save
Amazon is now the world’s most valuable brand. The world’s least valuable brand: Amazon Warehouse Worker Pee in a Bottle Thirst Quencher.
Save
May 20 2019
Save
This Wall Street Journal story about the gilded underworld of “site selectors,” the consultants who help corporations milk state and local governments for subsidies, is an excellent demonstration of why the entire practice should be illegal.
Save
Apr 16 2019
Save
Last week, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos (net worth: $150 billion) boasted about his company’s recent decision to raise its…
Apr 9 2019
Save
Save
During the 2018 midterms, almost 200 Democrats swore off money from corporate PACs, a huge shift from previous…
Apr 4 2019
Save
Save
Remember the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)? If you were a politically-aware progressive between about…
Feb 28 2019
Save
Last week, we asked what it was like to work at Sweetgreen, the slick, pricey salad bowl chain of choice for…
Feb 27 2019
Save
Save
The saga of Amazon’s search for its second headquarters, but then it turned out to be for a third as well, but then…
Feb 21 2019
Save
Bourgeois “food platform” Sweetgreen feels, always, like what would happen if lunch became an app. What is it like…
Feb 15 2019
Save
Yesterday, one of the world’s most powerful companies took its ball and went home, in response to what was—by New…
Jan 31 2019
Save
Save
Amazon is set to bring thousands of new jobs and billions of dollars to New York City. This marks the most promising…