The New Yorker’s Alexis Okeowo charts the psychic battles of a resilient state.
Alabama
Posted inWorking in America
Amazon Uses Arsenal of AI Weapons Against Workers
A study of a union election at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, shows that the company weaponizes its algorithmic surveillance tools to prevent organizing.
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The Message of Mercedes
Today on TAP: The UAW’s defeat in Alabama highlights the challenges that unions still face until our labor laws again give workers their rights.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Republican Court Rulings Keep Helping Republicans Win Elections
A redistricting case from Louisiana that could get resolved today illustrates the way conservative judges handle voting rights cases with their thumbs on the scale.
Posted inWorking in America
American Workers Get Some Help From an Enlightened German Law
As the UAW seeks to unionize an Alabama Mercedes factory, a new German law requires the company not to go union-busting.
Posted inWorking in America
Autoworkers at Alabama’s Mercedes-Benz Plant File for a Union Election
The announcement is the second UAW election planned in the South this year.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Miscarriage and Murder
The Alabama legislature has acted to protect doctors and IVF clinic workers from the ‘fetal personhood’ doctrine, but not pregnant women.
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Fetal Attraction
Today on TAP: The Alabama Supreme Court decision on in vitro fertilization sends Republicans scrambling.
Posted inPolitics
Who Will Represent Alabama’s New Democratic District?
After redistricting created another heavily Black congressional district, nearly a dozen candidates have put themselves forward.