February 2024

February 23, 2024

Starbucks Asked To Disclose $240M Spent on Union-Busting

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The Best of the Week’s News

Union-backed shareholders ask SEC to make Starbucks level with investiors about the $240 million the company has spent on union-busting. (Reuters)
Labor Department says Fayette Janitorial LLC illegally hired 24 children to clean two slaughter houses, including the head-splitters and bandsaws. (NBC)
How to save the collapsing U.S. media. (Jacobin)
A formerly unhoused journalist reports on the spiraling housing crisis from the tents, cars, motels, and couches of America. (NYT)
Alexei Navalny’s mother says the Russian government is blackmailing her, refusing to releae his body unless she agrees to a secret burial. (Axios)
How part-time schedules wreak havoc on workers’ lives. (NYT)

February 16, 2024

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Anti-corruption crusader and Putin critic Alexei Navalny dies in prison, depriving Russia of key voice as election nears. (WaPo)
Concertina wire installed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott is maiming migrants on the border. (HuffPo)
A trove of documents sheds light on the legal malfeasance behind the January 6 insurrection. (TPM)
New law takes heavy toll on Florida’s labor unions. (WLRN)
Labor names housing affordability as its number one issue. (Guardian)

February 9, 2024

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The Best of the Week’s News

NLRB judge rules that Dartmouth’s basketball players are employees of the university, gives the first NCAA players the right to organize a union. (AP)
A 16-year-old boy died after being pulled into an industrial chicken-boning machine at the plant where he worked. (Law & Crime)
New podcast explores the history, strategy, and significance of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). (Organizing the Unorganized)
Labor judge orders Starbucks to reinstate barista who was forced out for organizing at the first Buffalo store. (AP)
Guardian Angel vigilante group roughs up an alleged heckler for Fox News cameras, falsely accuses him of shoplifting. (NYMag)
More than 30% of Hyundai autoworkers in Montgomery, AL have joined a UAW union drive. (ITT)

February 2, 2024

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The Best of the Week’s News

• McDonald’s, Walmart and Cargill use food from hidden prison labor network. (AP)

• Biden cracks down on extremists in the West Bank attacking Palestinians and peace activists. (WaPo)

• This teacher was sanctioned for teaching Between the World And Me, but she’s trying again. (WaPo)

• SpaceX and Trader Joes launch major legal attack on labor. (Guardian)

• The UAW saved a Stellantis plant, but these workers are still fighting to get back to work. (In These Times)

• Killing the Messenger: An inside look at the death of a media company (NY Mag)