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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has signed a law guaranteeing free breakfast and lunch for all students in the state, regardless of how much money their parents make. Tens of thousands of food-insecure kids will benefit.
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BREAKING: Ticketmaster is under investigation by the Justice Department for abusing its monopoly power over the live music industry, per The New York Times.
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BREAKING: Moderna says it will keep its Covid vaccine free for all people in the U.S.—reversing course on its planned 400% price increase—one day after Bernie Sanders said he would force the CEO to testify.
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Horrifying details are emerging about the tornado disaster at Amazon's warehouse in Illinois, where at least 6 workers were killed on the job.
Before he died, Larry Virden reportedly texted his girlfriend: "Amazon won’t let us leave." He leaves behind four children.
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BREAKING: At least 102 children as young as 13 were found working overnight shifts, using hazardous chemicals, and cleaning brisket saws at 13 plants in eight states.
The U.S. Department of Labor has fined Packers Sanitation Services $1.5 million for these egregious violations.
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The members of Trinity Moravian Church in North Carolina purchased nearly $3.3 million of local residents’ medical debt for just $15,048.
Then, they held a debt jubilee ceremony and burned up the debt, canceling it all.
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BREAKING: Bernie Sanders, incoming chair of the Senate Committee overseeing health care, has written Moderna urging it to halt its vaccine price increase from $26 to $130. He calls out that the vaccine costs just $2.85 to produce, and that public funds subsidized its development.
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BREAKING: At a White House event, President Biden announces new plans to crack down on junk fees across the economy — including bank overdraft fees, credit card late fees, cell phone termination fees, and airline ticketing fees.
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BREAKING: Proposition 5 in Vermont passes making it the first state to codify abortion rights in its constitution.
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We’re tired of seeing this type of “feel good” story! No one should have to go viral to retire at age 82.
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On February 3, a horrifying railroad accident took place. A Norfolk Southern freight train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. You might've seen images of the flames, but you probably haven't heard that unions were trying to prevent this exact accident. 🧵
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On Wednesday,
@DannyDevito
expressed solidarity with striking Nabisco workers.
“NO CONTRACTS NO SNACKS,” he tweeted.
Today, Twitter stripped him of his verified status, DeVito confirmed to More Perfect Union.
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BREAKING: New York Times tech workers just voted to unionize, forming the largest tech union in U.S. history.
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BREAKING: A train has just derailed outside Detroit. At least six cars came off the track, and one was carrying hazardous materials.
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A new Zillow study says that renters who make minimum wage have two options to keep rent under 30% of their income: either find 3 roommates (with 2 people per bedroom) or work 4 full-time jobs.
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A daughter explains why her Mom can’t seem to find and keep good workers at her small business.
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Frito-Lay workers in Topeka, Kansas, are on strike for fair pay, humane schedules and safe working conditions. The company is starting to suffer the consequences of years of mistreating its workers.
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BREAKING: America's largest egg producers and industry groups illegally rigged the market to drive up the price of eggs, a jury has found.
Their price-fixing scheme included exporting millions of eggs overseas to drive up U.S. prices around Thanksgiving and Easter.
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BREAKING: The Iowa Senate passed a child labor law before dawn today.
The bill lets 14-year-olds work 6-hour night shifts, 15-year-olds work on assembly lines, and 16- and 17-year-olds serve alcohol.
The Senate went through the night, and voted on child labor at 4:52 a.m.
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Tens of thousands of garment workers in Bangladesh who make products for brands like Zara, H&M and GAP are on strike.
Their minimum wage is $75 a month, and they're demanding it rise to $208. The bosses are only offering $90.
They've shut down over 300 factories so far.
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LEAKED EMAIL: Applebee’s franchise exec says that rising gas prices are great for business because the chain can offer workers lower wages.
“Most of our employee base and potential employee base live paycheck to paycheck… the labor market is about to turn in our favor.”
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NEW: Amazon workers are exposing what's happening in Alabama.
They say Amazon is forcing them into anti-union meetings, texting them up to 5x daily, putting messages in bathrooms, even changing traffic light patterns to harm union organizing.
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BREAKING: Nearly 300 workers at Home Depot in Philadelphia have filed to unionize.
This would be the first union at Home Depot in the United States.
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NEW: The workers who make Rice Krispies & Froot Loops are on strike at all Kellogg's U.S. cereal plants. They work 16-hour forced overtime shifts and 7-day work weeks, sometimes up to 120 days straight.
Now, amid record profits, Kellogg's wants to cut their pay & benefits.
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BREAKING: Tesla has fired 30+ workers at its Buffalo gigafactory, one day after workers there announced a unionization campaign.
Tesla managers announced surprise performance reviews, then fired 8x as many workers as usual.
Tesla is notorious for union-busting.
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BREAKING: The 1400 striking Kellogg’s workers have courageously voted to reject the contract offer from the breakfast giant.
They walked out 9 weeks ago after years of 16-hour shifts, forced overtime, and uneven pay.
They’ve won some gains, but there’s one big sticking point.
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Norfolk Southern, the rail giant whose train derailed in Eastern Palestine, has offered to cut the town a check for $25,000.
But 5,000 people live there, so that’s just $5 a person.
And the company is worth $55 billion.
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JUST IN: Washington D.C. passes a huge raise for restaurant workers and other tipped employees.
Voters backed Initiative 82, outlawing a sub-minimum wage for tipped workers — instead, they'll receive the full minimum wage plus tips on top.
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History is unfolding right now in Alabama.
A Black women-led group of Amazon warehouse workers is on the verge of organizing the company's first U.S. union.
If they win, it could reshape the lives of hundreds of thousands of Amazon workers.
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BREAKING: David beats Goliath! In a historic victory, Amazon workers in Staten Island win the first U.S. Amazon union.
@AmazonLabor
and workers at the JFK8 warehouse overcame extreme union-busting to make history.
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Back in December a union rail worker warned about the potential for a catastrophic train derailment. Then, a week ago, it happened in Ohio.
It's time to listen to the workers.
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A new Iowa bill would roll back child labor laws, allowing 14 to 17-year-olds to work in mining, meatpacking, demolition, operating guillotine shears, and other dangerous jobs. Under the business-backed bill, employers wouldn't be civilly liable if kids are injured or killed.
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NEW STUDY: Being in a union means a $1.3 million increase in lifetime earnings – larger than the average gains from getting a college degree.
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NEW: She was 17, working as a barista, and living in her car.
Days before HS graduation, Starbucks fired Katie for union organizing. Her plans for a new apartment & college were put on hold.
Now, Starbucks may have to pay her tens of thousands of dollars.
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A Chik-Fil-A in North Carolina has been caught paying workers in meals and using illegal child labor.
The store is owned by Good Name 22:1 LLC, named after the Bible passage:
“A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, loving favor rather than silver and gold.”
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BREAKING: The Biden administration is ending bank overdraft fees as we know them.
Under a new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule, overdraft fees at large banks will be strictly regulated and capped as low as $3. Low-income Americans will save billions.
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UPDATE: Efforts to replace striking Kellogg's workers has been disastrous, workers tell us.
Scabs wreaked havoc on the factory, most cereals are not being produced, and a delivery train went off the track yesterday.
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BREAKING: Starbucks has fired one of the leading
@SBWorkersUnited
union organizers in Buffalo.
Cassie Fleischer worked at Starbucks for five years. She helped Elmwood become the first unionized store in company history and is on the union's bargaining committee.
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An entire Gamestop Store quit simultaneously the day the day The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom came out.
They posted this message on the door:
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The Federal Railroad Administration is conducting a study to evaluate restoring daily, long-distance, intercity train service.
Their initial proposal would add 15 long-distance routes, serving 61 additional metropolitan areas and creating a true national network.
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BREAKING: Oregon is the first state to make health care a constitutional right.
Voters passed Ballot Measure 111, giving every Oregonian a right to "cost-effective, clinically appropriate and affordable health care."
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Twitter is being hit with a major federal lawsuit after Elon Musk initiated layoffs of 3,700 employees.
Federal law requires that big companies give 60 days notice of mass layoffs. Musk sent a company email hours before firings began.
A class action suit was just filed in SF.
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BREAKING: Hollywood writers are striking.
They’re fighting for their livelihoods against billion-dollar studios and streaming companies who have been squeezing writers to eke out more profits.
Writers didn’t shut down Hollywood — the studios did.
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A viral TikTok shows a 13-year-old kid working at Chick-fil-A as a customer asks “Is that even allowed?”
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Pennsylvania passed a law incentivizing private companies to buy publicly-owned water systems.
Now residents are seeing their water bills skyrocket.
One local official put it bluntly during a hearing today: "People should see privatization for what it really is — a scam."
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NEW: Elon Musk says he’ll vote for Republicans this year because “the Democratic Party is overly controlled by the unions and…class-action lawyers.”
Musk is a notorious union-buster & was hit with a class-action lawsuit from 1k Black workers who alleged rampant racism at Tesla.
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Too often, bosses use their knowledge of rules and laws to exploit workers.
But if you like the idea of workers turning the tables... you might want to see this.
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Elon Musk fired pro-union Tesla workers and was disciplined by the NLRB for violating workers’ right to organize.
He silences workers in his factory every day, but we’re sure he’d be a champion for free speech if he owned Twitter.
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BREAKING: Ticketmaster-Live Nation reports record quarterly earnings of $6.2 billion, fueled by an all-time high in combined ticket and fee charges. Ticketmaster fees now cost as much as 78% of a ticket.
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NEW: Workers who make cakes for Baskin Robbins are forced to work 12-14 hours/day, make 13+ cakes/minute & get 3 sick days/year.
Workers say they’ve developed arthritis & been denied time off for cancer treatments.
Now 100+ mainly immigrant Latina workers are on strike.
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Eli Lilly apologizing for a fake tweet but not for charging $714.87 for a carton of insulin.
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JUST IN: California becomes the second state in U.S. history to enshrine abortion rights in their state constitution, joining Vermont.
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BREAKING: After weeks of strikes and protests, Nabisco workers have voted to ratify a new contract & end their strike.
The new agreement includes $.60/hour wage increases each year for 4 years, a $5K bonus for all employees, and blocks Mondelez's planned health care cuts.
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BREAKING: Bernie Sanders has written Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz demanding he testify before the Senate about Starbucks's illegal union-busting at a March 9 hearing. If Schultz refuses, Sanders says he will issue a subpoena to force him, AP reports.
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UPDATE: Elon Musk terminated the contract employing the striking janitors.
"We have about 48 families out of work. And it just so happens that it’s three weeks before Christmas,” their union president said.
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@Ticketmaster
Ticketmaster is destroying live music.
Their scam fees now cost as much as 78% of a ticket. They control the events, the venues, even the artists.
There’s a movement pushing the Justice Department to break up their monopoly.
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NEW: The IRS targeted low-income wage earners for audits vastly more than other American taxpayers in 2022. They were audited at a rate 5.5x higher than people in virtually every other tax bracket, per a new Syracuse University analysis.
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BREAKING: 48,000 academic workers at the University of California have begun the largest higher education strike in U.S. history. The UC workers, represented by
@UAW
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The CEO of General Motors just went on CNN and it went like this:
"You've seen a 34 percent pay increase in your salary.
You make almost 30 million. Why should your workers not get the same type of pay increases that you're getting leading the company?"
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BREAKING: Starbucks’ CEO Howard Schultz officially resigned this morning, two weeks earlier than anticipated.
The billionaire returned last April to try to stop
@SBWorkersUnited
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Back then, there were six unionized Starbucks.
There are now 290+ unionized stores.
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Workers at Dairy Queen have gone viral for showing what they have to do in order to get some rest, because they’re not allowed to sit at work.
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BREAKING: The NLRB has ruled that if bosses commit unfair labor practices in the run-up to a union election then the election will be canceled and the Board will order the employer to immediately recognize and bargain with the union.
Union-busting just got a lot harder.
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BREAKING: Amazon workers revealed new evidence of Amazon's illegal union-busting—including managers passing out coupons for 15 extra minutes of break time—at an NLRB hearing today.
Here's what Darryl Richardson, an Amazon warehouse worker in Alabama, told the NLRB:
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The Kellogg’s strike is working.
Keep up the pressure and demand that
@KelloggsUS
negotiate a fair contract with its workers.
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UPDATE: Bernie Sanders' amendment to guarantee 7 days of paid sick leave to rail workers is building momentum
- Rubio, Cruz, Hawley indicate they may support
- Cornyn suggests it may have enough GOP votes to pass Senate
- Pelosi says House will vote on Sanders proposal tomorrow
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We need this brand of “feel good” stories to end. People should be able to retire, and keep their housing, without needing a miracle.
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BREAKING: Democrats in the Michigan State Senate just voted to repeal the anti-union “Right to Work” law.
It now heads to Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s desk, where she plans to sign it and make Michigan the first state to repeal “Right to Work” in nearly 60 years.
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BREAKING: More Perfect Union has obtained emails showing that Amazon privately pressured USPS to install an illegal ballot dropbox during the union election in Bessemer, AL.
The emails directly contradict public statements by USPS about the box's origins.
There's more.
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The dollar store industry is a mess. Chronic understaffing means there’s often just one employee in the store. This woman got locked in when that employee went to use the bathroom.
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You might know that we're heading towards a possible rail strike.
What most of the media might not tell you is why.
Railroad workers have been working for 3 years without a contract, and now railroad companies are holding the economy hostage to deny them a single sick day. 🧵
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BREAKING: The FTC has proposed a sweeping new rule that would block all noncompete clauses in labor agreements. Companies would no longer be able to limit employees’ ability to work for rival employers.
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Or, and hear us out, what if the government stepped in to regulate the giant corporations price-gouging food and made breakfast more affordable.
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It's official, 2023 is the year we do away with the myth of unskilled labor
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BREAKING: Senator Bernie Sanders has introduced legislation that would make a 32-hour workweek the standard in America —with no loss in pay.
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BREAKING: Starbucks workers are on strike nationwide, demanding the company stop union-busting and negotiate a contract.
The strike was timed to “Founder’s Day,” a holiday invented by Starbucks to honor CEO Howard Schultz… who resigned early.
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BREAKING: An Amazon worker just testified to the NLRB that he witnessed two Amazon security guards open and search the union ballot dropbox after his overnight shift.
“They had it open for a minute or two. Seemed like they were searching for something,” Kevin Jackson said.
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Albuquerque is now the biggest city in the country to make public transit free, permanently.
Turns out it doesn’t just save people money, it saves the city money.
We talked to residents, and they love it. Some save on gas, some don’t have to walk to work, and everybody wins.
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Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs plans to cancel $2 billion in medical debt for up to 1 million residents.
This is the biggest medical debt cancellation proposal in the country.
The Governor plans to use $30 million in federal funds to buy and cancel the debt with
@RIPMedicalDebt
.
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Ever since Minnesota implemented universal free school meals, more kids are getting fed.
Kids eating school lunch is up 11%, and breakfast is up 26%. Plus, with better funding the meals are healthier.
Funding universal free meals works.
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Today Michigan is officially no longer a "right to work" state.
Michigan is now the first state in nearly 60 years to ditch the union-busting law.
Public school workers can now collectively bargain, it's easier for unions to build power, and billionaires are furious.
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Yesterday there was a major derailment in Houston, and another in Enoree, South Carolina.
This is exactly what rail unions keep warning us about. Unless there are major changes the industry will get worse, not better. And that means more disasters like East Palestine.
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Alabama has a prison labor system where the state makes hundred of millions leasing inmates to companies like McDonald’s, KFC, Burger King, Wendy’s, and more.
Now a federal class action lawsuit has been filed to dismantle the scheme and compensate those who have been exploited.
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Frito-Lay spent about $26 million to air two Super Bowl ads.
But when one of its employees was electrocuted on the job, the company refused to pay for his medical care and stalked his family.
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Turns out a whole lot of “nobody wants to work anymore” is actually “people went and got better jobs”
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Olivia Rodrigo makes a case for unions and workers' rights in her new song "Brutal."
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BREAKING: Lunchables have been found to contain dangerous amounts of lead.
New research has also shows that Lunchables have chemicals found in plastics that have been linked to reproductive problems, diabetes, and certain cancers.
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Members of the popular subreddit r/antiwork are coordinating to flood Kellogg’s application system and thwart the company’s attempt to hire scabs to replace 1400 striking workers.
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BREAKING: TV & movie writers just voted to authorize a strike that could shut down Hollywood.
Writers are making less than they were 10 years ago, while corporate profits have skyrocketed.
They're not standing for it.
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Ticketmaster’s scam fees now cost as much as 78% of a ticket. The company controls the events, the venues, even the artists and it’s destroying live music.
Today, Joe Biden announced he will crack down on outrageous processing fees, like the ones on concert tickets.
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NEW: The NLRB has ruled that Starbucks illegally withheld pay/benefits from workers at hundreds of unionizing stores.
It's now moving to force Starbucks to:
- Pay back 100% of the denied benefits
- Require Howard Schultz to record a video admitting the illegal action
(con't)
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Democrats have introduced a bill in both houses of Congress to ban hedge funds from buying and owning single-family homes.
The bill would require all hedge funds to sell off all the single-family homes they own within 10 years, then prohibit them from owning any again.
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BREAKING: Newly revealed emails show that Amazon ordered USPS to place an illegal ballot dropbox at its Alabama warehouse during the union election.
"This is of the utmost importance" and "must get done," Amazon warned, linking the demand directly to Amazon SVP Dave Clark. (1/)
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New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed a new bill into law to ensure all students have access to free and healthy school meals. The bill provides free breakfast and lunch in every New Mexico school, with fresh ingredients from local farmers and growers.
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NEW: Frito-Lay workers reveal that they’ve worked up to 5 months straight without a day off, and that multiple coworkers—driven to exhaustion—have died by suicide.
Their strike in Topeka is gaining nationwide attention. Now Frito-Lay workers in other states are speaking out.
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Republicans in North Dakota have killed a bill to provide free school lunch to kids in low-income families.
“I can understand kids going hungry, but is that really the problem of the school district? Is that the problem of the state of North Dakota?" said Sen. Mike Wobbema.
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Last night TurboTax ran a Super Bowl ad about how you shouldn't do your own taxes, you should have a TurboTax expert do them instead.
But what TurboTax doesn't want you to know is that soon the IRS might make them irrelevant. /1
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UPDATE: In-N-Out, Chipotle, and Starbucks have successfully blocked California from implementing a landmark law establishing industry-wide working standards and wage increases at fast food chains.
Voters now need to approve the law in a 2024 ballot measure for it to take effect.
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NEW: Remember the viral “insulin is free” parody tweet that set the internet ablaze?
We were behind that.
Here’s how our staff writer Sean exposed the greed of Elon Musk and Eli Lilly with just $8, 9 words, and 10 minutes.
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Madeline Pendleton runs a business where everyone from the CEO to an intern gets the same take-home pay.
She was recently asked how they do raises. Here’s what she had to say:
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