Digital surveillance and customer isolation are individualizing the prices we pay.
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America’s Richest Men Ask the Courts to Make Unions Illegal
Today on TAP: Lawyers for Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’s Amazon say the Court erred in 1937 by letting workers have rights on the job.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Attack of the Straw Doctors
Amazon and the Adderall pill-mill lobby blitz Oregon to kill a (tame) ‘corporate practice of medicine’ ban.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Latimer Picks Anti-Union Consultant for Bowman Challenge
Global Strategy Group, which once worked for Amazon to prevent union organizing in its warehouses, is doing polling for the pro-Israel candidate.
Posted inWorking in America
How Amazon’s Outsourcing Facilitates Union Busting
Employees at the company’s Queens warehouse actually work for a third-party subcontractor. This fissured workplace is an obstacle to collective-bargaining rights.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Amazon Loophole Is Driving the Fentanyl Crisis
A rule allowing ‘de minimis’ items to be shipped from overseas without fees or inspections has facilitated the illegal drug trade.
Posted inPolitics
Oklahoma Senator Driven to Violent Frenzy by Teamsters President
A Capitol Hill hearing highlights how much labor unions have won this year, as well as the Republicans who are furious over it.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Lawsuit Highlights Why Meat Has Been Overpriced for 40 Years
Agri Stats lets meat processors coordinate their pricing. The Justice Department finally decided to go after what it calls collusion.
Posted inAmerica and the World
The EU’s Tough New Rules for Tech
Will they survive an intense and preposterous lobbying campaign by the U.S. platform giants to brand them as discriminatory against American companies?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The [REDACTED] Case Against Amazon
You go to information war with the clickbait you have.