Does the ongoing campaign to unionize the Amazon warehouse, where 85 percent of the workers are Black, portend a return to large-scale campaigns in the region?
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Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Rollups: The Gators Defining the Merchant Makeover
Are investors valuing consolidation over innovation? Thrasio and its look-alikes make that a hard question to answer.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The COVID Cons
Counterfeit masks are as widely available as the real thing, outpacing the federal agencies’ ability to crack down on scammers.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Big Business Games the Supply Chain
The disruptions, and the subsequent circumventions, have accelerated Amazon and Walmart’s takeover at the expense of independent retailers.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Warehouse Space Race
With warehouse capacity at a premium, businesses try to get goods and move them out as global economic chaos disrupts long-held ideas about stocking stuff just in time.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Banks and Tech Companies Jockey for Economic Control
As banks close branches, tech giants open physical stores.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Flying Blind
The fatal fragmentation of private information in the global supply chain system
Posted inWorking in America
Just How Exceptional Are the Buffalo Baristas?
They’ve unionized one Starbucks. They symbolize a fed-up proletariat. But does their victory portend anything further?
Posted inWorking in America
A New Regime at the Teamsters
Like Joe Biden, incoming Teamster president Sean O’Brien is an establishment guy turned reformer.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Amazon’s Attack on Women’s Health
A company that treats a common pelvic ailment will soon have all its FDA-compliant medical devices undiscoverable in general search—because they are deemed “adult.”
