Agri Stats lets meat processors coordinate their pricing. The Justice Department finally decided to go after what it calls collusion.
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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.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Amazon’s $185 Billion Pay-to-Play System
A new report shows that Amazon now takes 45 percent of all third-party sales on its website, part of the company’s goal to become a monopoly gatekeeper for economic transactions.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Catch Us if You Can
The mysterious firing of Amazon’s most ruthless union-buster from his new job underscores the monopoly’s insidious stranglehold over shopping.
Posted inWorking in America
What Might Finally Resolve the Hollywood Strikes
The unions raised the need for antitrust enforcement, and the Biden administration’s top antitrust cops paid attention.
Posted inWorking in America
Striking Workers Face Another Opponent: U.S. Labor Laws
Unionizing is not against the law; but the law is against unionizing.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
It’s All the Same Fight
Reflections on a week in the age of corporate power
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Amazon’s Quiet Role in the Green Hydrogen Debate
The e-commerce company is a principal member of the trade group lobbying the Treasury Department for looser rules on the emerging fuel.
Posted inTAP
Will the Teamsters’ Gains at UPS Help Them Unionize Amazon?
Today on TAP: The wage increases matter, but banning the constant surveillance of workers should really resonate with Amazon employees.
