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I've long called for laws to force corporations to take supply chain labor conditions seriously. After all, they control for both quality and cost in the supply chain. They just don't care about the labor conditions or pollution because no one is making them do...
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For a year now, there's been a pretty rough strike of United Mine Workers of America workers in Alabama. There's been some frustration with strikebreakers, leading to some shoving, some flat tires, some broken windshields. Nothing like real violence, especially in the context of the...

The Injunction

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On December 5, 2021

In the Gilded Age, legally spurious injunctions were issued with impunity by courts based on the solid legal principle of fuck unions. That is returning in the New Gilded Age,.

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Historical Memory Priorities

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On October 7, 2021
On Monday, I happened to be in Scottboro, Alabama, home of the Scottsboro Boys incident, where 9 innocent Black young men were nearly lynched in 1931 for supposedly raping two white girls. In fact, if there was sex, it was consensual, as often happened on...

Alabama Unionism

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On February 28, 2021

Amazon’s new facility will be the single-largest private investment in the history of Bessemer, according to the town’s mayor. Jamelle Bouie had an excellent column the other day about the.

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Organizing Amazon

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On November 30, 2020
An Amazon associate picks items from a mobile shelving unit called a pod at the newest Amazon Robotics fulfillment center during its first public tour on April 12, 2019 in the Lake Nona community of Orlando, Florida. The over 855,000 square foot facility opened on...

Whee!

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On July 10, 2020

Republican governance ladies and gentlemen! Alabama state Sen. Del Marsh (R), who serves as the Senate’s President Pro Tempore, tried to make the claim on Thursday that the astounding increase.

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