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After Union Defeat, Can Amazon Be Beaten?
Sonali Kolhatkar speaks with Kshama Sawant about if Amazon can be defeated. A highly watched vote among Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama has resulted in a resounding defeat for the Retail, Wholesale, and Department…
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Amazon “Broke the Law”: Union Seeks New Election After Alabama Warehouse Organizing Drive Fails
The largest union drive in the history of Amazon has ended with the company on top. After a months-long battle, 738 workers at Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse voted to unionize, and 1,798 voted no. Ballots…
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“We Need to Give the Workers a Fair Shot”: Jane McAlevey on What Went Wrong in Amazon Union Vote
Labor organizer and scholar Jane McAlevey says there were many warning signs that the historic Amazon union drive in Bessemer, Alabama, would fail. Workers at the Amazon warehouse voted overwhelmingly against forming a union after…
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Can We Democratize The Economy?
America is supposed to be a democracy, so why don't you have a say in where the economy goes? Economic growth will bring technology which will produce less carbon. Vs. Economic growth needs to stop…
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Biden’s $2 Trillion Infrastructure Plan Goes Beyond Bridges & Roads, But Its “Scale Is Inadequate”
DN speaks with economist Darrick Hamilton, founding director of the Institute on Race and Political Economy at The New School, about how U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is calling for a minimum global corporate income…
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Amazon Union Drive Builds on Decades of Black Radical Labor Activism in Alabama
As thousands of Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama, decide whether to form the company’s first union, historian Robin D.G. Kelley says it could be a watershed moment for labor organizing in the United States. “This…
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Capitalism Without Accountability at Root of Suez Canal Shipping Crisis, Says Scholar Laleh Khalili
A Suez Canal service firm now says the huge container ship blocking the canal has been refloated and is on the move. The 200,000-ton ship, the Ever Given, got stuck on March 23, blocking one…
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New Report Highlights Why Tip-Based Wages Are Racist/Sexist
Sonali Kolhatkar speaks with Saru Jayaraman about how tip-based wages are racist and sexist. March 24 2021 was Equal Pay Day. The National Committee on Pay Equity defines it as the date that, “symbolizes how…
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New Unemployment Claims Lowest Since Start of Pandemic
US weekly new jobless claims are at their lowest level since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. There was a bigger-than-expected drop in unemployment claims and the total for the week ending March 20th was…
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The Ugly Truth About the Gun Industry
Week after week there is a mass shooting in America or an unarmed person shot by the police. America is so driven by money, we have to wonder what are the economics of mass shooting…
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How U.S. Billionaires Like Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Saw Wealth Grow by $1.3 Trillion
A new report reveals that as a record number of people in the United States lost their jobs and struggled to put food on the table during the past year of the pandemic, the combined…
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The Roots of Anti-Asian Hate from U.S. Colonialism to Anti-China Political Rhetoric
Protests condemning hate crimes against Asian Americans continue, following the deadly shootings in Atlanta where a white gunman attacked three Asian-owned spas and killed eight people, six of them women of Asian descent. Hundreds of…
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Fox Host & GOP Senator Claim $400,000/Year is Middle Income
Fox Host Charles Payne and Republican Senator Chuck Grassley bemoan "middle income" tax increases for households earnings $400,000 per year. -- The David Pakman Show is a news and political talk program, known for its…
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Rideshare Drivers Demand The Right To Organize A Union
FEATURING TYLER SANDNESS – Rideshare drivers on Tuesday rallied in various cities including Los Angeles and San Francisco in support of the PRO Act, a House bill that just passed that would help workers unionize.…
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The End of Trickle-Down Economics? Joe Stiglitz on the “Transformational” $1.9T American Rescue Plan
President Biden has signed the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, which Democrats are hailing as the largest anti-poverty bill in a generation, the American Rescue plan. It includes stimulus checks to most adults, expanded unemployment…
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“Huge Victory”: Black Farmers Hail $5B in New COVID Relief Law to Redress Generations of Racism
A major provision in President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill aims to address decades of discrimination against Black, Hispanic, Native American and Asian American farmers who have historically been excluded from government agricultural…
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American Rescue Plan Could Help Black Farmers
Sonali Kolhatkar speaks with John Boyd about relief for Black farmers. The newly passed American Rescue Plan, voted on by no Republicans, and signed in to law by President Joe Biden, is a whopping $1.9…
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