A full timeline of the bills’ failure reveals the Senate majority leader’s heavy hand.
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Splitting the Strikers at UC
Today on TAP: University of California managers divide (and—not clear yet if they’ll—conquer), while General Motors and Microsoft indulge a modicum of worker power.
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Biden’s Agencies Rule: One for the Workers, One Not
Today on TAP: The NLRB goes after employer lawbreaking, while the FTC—just this once?—disregards workers’ concerns.
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Schumer’s Visit to Seattle
Today on TAP: The Democratic Senate leader was in Amazon and Microsoft country right as he’s deciding whether to advance a bill that would weaken their power.
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Man Bites Dog: Mega-Corporation Says It’s OK With Its Workers Unionizing
Today on TAP: Parting company with almost every other U.S. big business, Microsoft says it won’t oppose employee unionization.
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Activision Workers Fight to Unionize
The popular gaming company, in the midst of a $70 billion merger with Microsoft, is resisting a unionization effort in its Raven Software division.
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Start Governing and Good Things Happen
The Education Department’s changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program can serve as a powerful lesson.
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Google’s Guardians
An ecosystem of Google-funded academics, think tankers and hangers-on will fan out to defend the search giant from the Justice Department’s antitrust case.
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The $5.3 Trillion Question Behind America’s COVID-19 Failure
That’s the amount of buybacks U.S. corporations funneled to shareholders during the past decade—rather than invest in technologies for the common good.
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Pentagon Awards Multibillion-Dollar Cloud Contract to Microsoft. Will Amazon Appeal?
Experts say Amazon could mount a strong protest to Microsoft’s victory.