Ned Lamont has vetoed a vaguely written bill that would have created a $3 million fund that could have financially helped striking workers in Connecticut. Waffle House raises worker pay after strikes and pressure from labor organizers Waffle House is increasing pay for its U.S. workers after a...
Supreme Court strikes out Quinecare claim brought against Bank by Stanford’s liquidators A round up of some recent litigation cases - January 2023 The National Security and Investment Bill – tougher controls on foreign investment The National Security and Investment Bill could have a chilling effect...
2023, the White House announced a multimillion-dollar cyber contest to detect and fix security holes in the US government's infrastructure using artificial intelligence. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will head the two-year competition, which will be worth $20 million. Organiz...
"I worked 12-14 hour shifts throughout the pandemic. I caught COVID-19 from a coworker since we share the same truck…Our jobs are essential because they are rooted in manufacturing and delivering goods, the underpinning of every major economy on the planet….Meanwhile, the largest corporatio...
“strikes” for themselves. Perhaps one answer to “how much divestment?” lies in the near absence of resistance. The lack of significant resistance from communities themselves suggests prolonged disempowerment; and the lack of resistance from local governments seems self-interested (a discharging or...
4. In further follow up to #2 above, it strikes me that a worker is more likely to report employment in the Household Suvey than an Emoloyer reporting an under the table hire in the Establishment Survey. Which means that the Household Survey should be picking up more Illegales th...
In a contemporary sense, it strikes me now, more than fifteen years after I edited the manuscript, that the baby trafficking Georgia Tann undertook, and the national baby sales network she developed, could be said to have been a sort of proto-version of QAnon—the mythology of this decade ...
In a contemporary sense, it strikes me now, more than fifteen years after I edited the manuscript, that the baby trafficking Georgia Tann undertook, and the national baby sales network she developed, could be said to have been a sort of proto-version of QAnon—the mythology of this decade ...
In a contemporary sense, it strikes me now, more than fifteen years after I edited the manuscript, that the baby trafficking Georgia Tann undertook, and the national baby sales network she developed, could be said to have been a sort of proto-version of QAnon—the mythology of this decade ...
What strikes me most about Academy voters is their fear. They’re afraid of being seen as racist, as they should be (#OscarsSoWhite), but they actually prove they are with nominations for movies likeThe Blind SideandCrashandGreen Book. The pernicious roots of racism don’t lie in big he...