Meet a millennial family physician who is also a one-woman antidote to private equity and the forces that have destroyed compassionate treatment for patients.
corporate power
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Shock Treatment in the Emergency Room
The Lehman-like collapse of a(nother) private equity–owned ER operator has physicians calling louder than ever for a strike.
Posted inWorking in America
Inside the Teamsters’ Historic Contract at UPS
The union’s new leadership used effective messaging and rank-and-file organization to win significant gains.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Big Tech’s Relentless Influence on Trade Policy
How even Biden’s best officials are subject to insidious corporate pressure
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Democratic Senate Hopeful’s Company Resists FTC Investigation
Maryland’s David Trone’s liquor store chain enmeshed in antitrust case
Posted inPolitics
The WaPo Editorialists Don’t Understand the American Economy
Or, for that matter, the American people
Posted inWorking in America
How Striking Hollywood Creators and Hotel Housekeepers Face the Same Obstacles
With consolidation and industry diversification, corporate studio and hotel owners have more money to wait out strikes.
Posted inWorking in America
Unions Are Trying to Save Hollywood From Its Own Foolish Executives
Left to their own devices, the CEOs will ruin the American film and TV industry.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Investment Industry Donors Bankroll Sinema in Q2
Donors at Blackstone, the Carlyle Group, and other investment firms have given hundreds of thousands of dollars to Sinema’s leadership PAC, which has been spending on upscale events and private flights.
Posted inWorking in America
TSMC Phoenix Cuts Electrician Pay and Sends In Taiwanese Workers
After 50 union electricians left, TSMC reinstated incentive pay and offered 25 non-union workers dispatched from Taiwan.
