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Where Did Cats Come From?

Tabitha M. Powledge PLOS One
The origin of the domestic cat, Felis catus, is radically different from the origin stories of our other domestic animals. All of them are deliberate human creations. Cats appear to have domesticated themselves.

Companies Can Either Make Things or Make CEOs Rich

Sam Pizzigati Institute for Policy Studies
How many more outrageously compensated executives will retire off into lush sunsets, the Jeff Immelt story virtually begs us to ask, before we start yanking that lever?

How Union-Busting Bosses Propel the Right Wing to Power

Shaun Richman In These Times
During modern times, corporations threaten the jobs of pro-union workers in over half of all union elections—and follow through on the threat one-third of the time. In between, bosses have resorted to spies and frame-ups, physical violence, court injunctions, private armies of strikebreakers, racist appeals and immigrant exploitation.

Seward Coop Workers Vote Overwhelmingly to Unionize

Barb Kuzera Workday Magazine
Workers at Seward Coop three locations in Minneapolis are celebrating their decision Thursday to join United Food & Commercial Workers Local 653. Ninety-four percent of those who voted in the election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board supported union representation.

D.C. Charter Schools Get First Union

Kate McGee WAMU American University Radio
Teachers at Cesar Chavez Prep will be the first teachers at a charter school in the District to unionize.