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The “Share Buyback” Rape of American Business

Thom Hartmann Hartmann Report
How CEOs pulled off their coup, ending the Golden Age of growth for the middle class while beginning the current era of the CEO as modern-day superyacht-owning Emperor…

The Upstart Union Challenging Starbucks

E. Tammy Kim The New Yorker
Baristas nationwide are remarkably organized. Is the company’s C.E.O., Howard Schultz, using firings, store closures, and legal delays to thwart them?

Auto Workers Turn a Corner for Strike Pay and Democracy

Keith Brower Brown and Jane Slaughter Labor Notes
A newly organized reform movement turned the convention into a rowdy debate that, for moments, even overruled the top union leaders. Again and again, members of the Unite All Workers for Democracy reform caucus (UAWD) and other delegates gathered the numbers to put their issues on the convention floor.