YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Gig Workers Score Employee Rights
Plus, a major airline merger won’t take off, methane leaks get plugged, and a toxic railway project gets waylaid.
Labor
Timely coverage of the resurgent labor movement and efforts to protect workers’ rights from corporate wrongdoing.
YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: New Year, New Wages
Plus, a Texas Court throws out a billionaire-backed free speech case, bank tellers organize their industry, and EVs get more accessible.
YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Southwest To Pay Up For Holiday Meltdown
Plus, the EPA introduces limits on the toxic gas in the East Palestine disaster, Starbucks has to reopen union-busted locations, and old trees get new safeguards.
Build Back B.S.
Labor activists say a scandal-plagued construction company is taking advantage of Biden’s climate plan.
YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: White House To Slash Drug Prices
Plus, Google suffers a big antitrust defeat, New York’s private colleges could lose wasteful tax breaks, and Massachusetts says goodbye to natural gas.
Largest U.S. Teachers Union Allows Private Equity To Prey On Educators
The National Education Association’s benefits arm is pushing high-fee, poorly performing retirement plans run by a firm accused of fraud and mismanagement.
YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Farewell, Methane
Plus, organizers take on non-union automakers, an automatic voter registration program expands to the prison system, and a “Lithium Valley” bonanza bodes well for a clean-energy future.
YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Here Come The Solar Canals
Plus, New York Takes On PepsiCo, Florida’s anti-drag law is stopped, and Starbucks workers walk out.
YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Chicago Workers Get Vacations
Plus, wages are going up across the auto industry, Big Oil’s hopes for an oil train run into trouble, and Michigan passes an ambitious climate plan.
YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: A Hollywood Ending
Plus, voters come for the mansions, Uber and Lyft pay up, Portland teachers strike, and New York City drafts a new bill of rights.