Michael Corkery
@mcorkery5
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National correspondent at The New York Times. Email me [email protected]
New York, N.Y.
Joined April 2010
An Alabama picket line may be one of the most politically united places in the country. The striking miners “are a mix of Trump supporters and Biden voters, Black workers from Birmingham and white workers from rural towns near the mine.” @mcorkery5
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The strike at an Alabama coal mine is one of the longest in U.S. history. To make ends meet, some striking miners have picked up work at an Amazon warehouse. It’s the same warehouse where workers are...
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A miners strike in Alabama has been going on so long some of the miners have picked up work at the Amazon facility in nearby Bessemer, where workers are attempting to unionize. @mcorkery5 with the story
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The strike at an Alabama coal mine is one of the longest in U.S. history. To make ends meet, some striking miners have picked up work at an Amazon warehouse. It’s the same warehouse where workers are...
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Target was supposed to be the ticket to a Baltimore neighborhood's turnaround. Then, without much warning or explanation, the store closed for good. Its absence is still very much felt here.
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The shuttering of a store in Baltimore is a sobering reminder of the realities of capitalism in a moment when corporations are promising to support Black Americans.
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Rent the Runway, after a tough year, is reporting a post-vax rebound as women dress up again. It's seeing 4x the demand for crop tops versus 2019 and a 44% jump in searches for outfits with cutouts. Read @LizziePaton & me on the revival of rental apparel:
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The pandemic hit the world of clothing rental hard. Now, companies like Rent the Runway say the market is booming like never before.
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Why Amazon workers voted against unionizing at the Bessemer, Ala., facility. Smart piece by @KYWeise & @noamscheiber
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Pay, benefits and an aggressive anti-union campaign by the company helped generate votes at a warehouse in Alabama.
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It's over. Amazon has enough "No" votes to defeat union drive in Bessemer w/ @KYWeise
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The union looking to represent Amazon workers in Bessemer Ala. released turnout in the election tonight. About 50 percent of eligible workers voted, totaling 3,215 ballots cast. The union @RWDSU says "hundreds" of those ballots that are being challenged mostly by Amazon.
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“the presidential nod to Alabama supercharged the Democratic arms race to find the next Georgia.” Smart piece on the political implications of the Bessemer union drive at Amazon by @AsteadWesley
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The president’s support for the rights of unionizing Amazon workers delighted political organizers in Alabama who are hoping to build long-term Democratic momentum in a reliably red state.
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"From the best of America to the worst of America." A story about racism, class, the endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and how generations of resentment and pain collided in this one Va. county around Jan. 6. It's incredible. @stavernise
https://t.co/enEPBhMnDl
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What appeared to be racial progress in rural Virginia turned into bitter conflict over a Confederate statue, the election and the Capitol riot. Now, people there foresee “a very dangerous time.”
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"In large cities in Texas, more than a third of workers are back, while the New York, San Francisco and Chicago areas remain below 20 percent." Interesting snapshot of who is going to office these days. @julie_creswell @gillianreporter @uwsgeezer
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Many employers are not making a decision until many workers are vaccinated. And some are making plans for “hybrid” work arrangements.
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“I think the American people really should not have to subsidize through their taxes the wealthiest family in the world.” Bernie Sanders criticizes Walmart, the Walton family and the retailer's reticence to raise starting hourly wages to $15. https://t.co/JLxIAOjdxH
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Annie’s Mac & Cheese is getting rid of Phthalates in its supply chain. A big move against a controversial chemical that some researchers link to health problems in kids.
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The move comes nearly four years after a study showed that chemicals believed to cause health problems in children and reproductive issues in adults were found in mass-market macaroni and cheese...
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“One by one, the hockey players drove down a dark road in the foothills of the Adirondacks in search of fresh ice on a recent Friday night. The regulars knew where to turn.” @KevinGArmstrong on “speakeasy hockey”
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In barns and backyards, outdoor rinks built with kits or from scratch are filling a void for hockey players amid pandemic-related closures.
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An eye-opening journey through Biden's economic agenda and the people behind it. @noamscheiber makes reading about policy easy.
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In public and private, Biden and his advisers have signaled some dramatic interventions to revive U.S. manufacturing. Will they actually happen?
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How the auto industry's race to curb car emissions spawned an unusual black market for catalytic convertors. @HirokoTabuchi
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The pollution-control gadgets are full of precious metals like palladium, and prices are soaring as regulators try to tame emissions. Crooks with hacksaws have noticed.
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"The level of sodium hydroxide — the main ingredient in drain cleaner — was changed from 100 parts per million to 11,100 parts per million, dangerous levels that could have badly sickened residents." Chilling story @FrancesRobles @nicoleperlroth
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For years, cybersecurity experts have warned of attacks on small municipal systems. In Oldsmar, Fla., the levels of lye were changed and could have sickened residents.
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grocery stores have been booming during the pandemic, but the people who work there have gotten little extra pay in this time. now, even as experts say to minimize time in grocery stores, workers are only eligible for vaccines in 13 states: https://t.co/Axroj4K07M w/@mcorkery5
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Booming business during the pandemic hasn’t always meant better wages, and they have largely been left off vaccine priority lists.
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The most impoverished Los Angeles residents are dying of the disease at four times the rate of the wealthiest. “What kind of virus is this?” one nurse asks. @sherifink
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Inside an overwhelmed facility in the worst-hit part of California, where the patriarchs of two immigrant families were taken when they fell sick.
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"His gestures of kindness and respect seem almost quaint now, a throwback to a gentler age when venom was not the elixir of public discourse." @PhilTaubman on George Shultz, an old school statesman.
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The human touch was at the heart of everything achieved by George Shultz, the former secretary of state who died on Saturday.
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“Much of the world doesn’t work that way, but most of the people who write laws live in the world that works that way.” @ConorDougherty chronicles the unseen struggles of the poor trying to keep a roof over their head
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Eviction moratoriums don’t keep arrears from piling up, and aid to renters may not reach the most vulnerable.
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