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Opinion: “A League of Their Own” Joins Biden in Fight for America’s Soul
While far from perfect, A League of Their Own, like Biden’s speech, tries to push the soul of America to embrace a more perfect union.
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Bernie Sanders Invites Jeff Bezos To Testify At Hearing About Amazon’s Anti-Union Activities
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) invited Jeff Bezos to testify at a hearing about Amazon’s anti-union activities.
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Biden Gets Standing Ovation As He Puts Amazon On Notice That The Union Is Coming
Biden got a standing ovation at the North America’s Building Trades Union Legislative Conference when he was talking about unions and said Amazon, here we come.
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House Judiciary Committee Refers Amazon Execs To DOJ For Criminal Activity
In a bipartisan move, the House Judiciary Committee has referred Amazon executives to the DOJ for obstructing its investigation.
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Opinion: Why Defending Democracy Means Taking on “Amazons” of America
We need large organizations that bring people and their power together to insist that people matter and deserve a voice in shaping the world in which we live—in short, in recognizing people’s equality.
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Opinion: To Really Save Democracy, Democrats Must Rally Behind Biden’s Labor Advocacy
On the whole, as a culture, we don’t speak much of the nation’s failure to extend democracy and civil rights to workers, tending to prioritize the rights of private property and capital
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They Got Richer But Their Workers Didn’t: Bill de Blasio Encourages New Yorkers to Buy Local Rather Than From Amazon This Prime Day
Not too many Americans had a good year financially in 2020. Jeff Bezos, however, had a banner year. The fortune of the Amazon founder only grew while people were stuck in their houses. Amazon has been heavily criticized for the pay and treatment of its workers despite massive profits. On Monday, the online retailer celebrated…
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Unions Are Dying…Here’s How to Fix Them (And Why You Should Care)
The broader question is, after years of decline, do unions have a future? And should the vast majority of Americans even care?
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Sanders: Bezos is Afraid of Workers Unionizing Because They Would “Take on His Greed”
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is afraid of his workers unionzing because they would “take on his greed.” Sanders’s statements come amid the news surrounding the union drive at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama and today’s deadline for handing ballots over to the regional National Labor Relations Board office. “Jeff…
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Opinion: By Opposing Minimum Wage Increase, Republicans Scam Taxpayers and Endorse Poverty
While Republicans love to falsely claim that tax cuts for the wealthy pay for themselves through increased economic activity, in the case of increasing the minimum wage, it’s actually true.
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Lindsey Graham is Furious That Amazon Offered to Help Biden Deliver Vaccines, But Not Trump
Following the November election, Donald Trump essentially stopped doing his job. And it was a bad time to stop as the coronavirus had raged out of control for the last two months. The ex-President ignored the crisis, preferring to complain about imaginary election fraud. Joe Biden , however, has made getting COVID-19 vaccines into American…
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Trump Deflects, Tries to Blame Amazon for Postal Service Problems
President Donald Trump attempted to blame Amazon for problems with the United States Postal Service (USPS) as his administration faces heightened scrutiny amid reports that they’re interfering with the postal service to impact November’s general election. “Amazon and other companies like it, they come and they drop all of their mail into a post office,”…
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Opinion: Democracy Dies at Amazon, Are Trump and Bezos Really Such Strange Bedfellows?
Recently Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters for The Washington Post Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig published their assessment of Donald Trump’s presidency to date, seeking to step out of the news cycle and “assess the reverberations” of his administration throughout the nation. Titled A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America, the book layers scene…
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Amazon Picks Northern Va. and NYC for New Headquarters
Amazon’s second headquarters — called HQ2 — will be in Northern Virginia’s Crystal City and in New York City, The Washington Post reported last night. The company is expected to announce today that it is splitting its additional HQ location that will create up to 50,000 jobs, between the two East Coast major cities. The…
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Bernie Sanders Is Barnstorming to Help Democrats Win in November
Bernie Sanders is on a battleground tour to help Democratic candidates in the November elections and he may make a big difference in close races. Sanders has a full October travel schedule, and this is his longest stretch of campaigning since he stopped his 2016 presidential campaign. He is going to many states, including Iowa,…
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Amazon Will Raise Its Minimum Wage to $15 An Hour
Bernie Sanders must be dancing a happy dance today. Early this morning Amazon announced that it is increasing its hourly minimum wage to $15 per hour for all full-time, part-time, temporary and seasonal employees across the United States. A higher minimum wage has been one of Senator Sanders’ primary policy proposals for many years. “We…
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Prime Crazy: Trump Thinks Amazon Is Out To Get Him
Trump thinks that Amazon and The Washington Post are the same company, and they are out to get him.
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Here Are Two Ways Jeff Bezos Could Shut Down Trump
Trump loves to tweet, and now twitter is firing back at the president who has been posting some nasty tweets about Amazon and Jeff Bezos. Many people on the White House staff have tried to stop Trump from tweeting, but to no avail. Now former federal prosecutor Preet Bharara has come up with a great…
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Amazon Caused Donald Trump to Lose $400 Million Last Year
Now we know why Trump has been attacking Amazon so fiercely in the press recently. An article published in Fortune Magazine last fall stated that Donald Trump’s net worth dropped by more than $600 million last year, from $3.6 billion to $3.1 billion. What was unusual is that the article specifically attributed $400 million of the…
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Amazon To Pull All Confederate Flag Merchandise Off Of Its Site
Amazon has become the latest retailer to announce that they are pulling all Confederate flag merchandise off of their website.
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Why Microsoft’s Rumored Plan For a Cloud-based OS is a Bad Idea
If Microsoft is seriously considering a cloud-based OS, then maybe where innovation is concerned, Microsoft ought to just stick to copying everything Apple does
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Amazon Studios: Democracy In TV Series Development
Amazon Studios announced this week they had greenlit production of a pilot for an hour-long contagion thriller series, Hysteria. The story follows neurologist Dr. Logan Harlen as she returns to her hometown of Austin, Texas.