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How Corporations Crush New Unions

Steven Greenhouse The New Republic
Bargaining-table negotiations over a first contract are never easy, but now they’re becoming excruciatingly slow and difficult. For companies like Trader Joe’s, that’s the goal.

Funhouse Mirror

Christopher L. Brown London Review of Books
‘Perhaps the greatest shame of the Atlantic slave trade was that it inspired no shame at all. In their own time, Britain’s slave traders were men of distinction: “worthy men, fathers of families and excellent citizens”

Big Contract Battles Ahead for Unions in 2024

Dan DiMaggio Labor Notes
Dan DiMaggio reviews the major contract expirations coming up in 2024, including 30,000 Boeing workers and 32,000 AT&T workers. Will we see more big strikes?

Neanderthals: More Knowable Now Than Ever

Tim Vernimmen Knowable Magazine
Inviting a Neanderthal for the holidays? That's a good thing. Not only are they the closest relative of homo sapiens, but there's a bit of Neanderthal in almost all of us. New findings about them are coming thick and fast.