Howard Schultz Came Out of Retirement to Destroy Starbucks’ Union—and His Legacy
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In November 2021, Victoria Conklin, a 23-year-old shift supervisor at a Starbucks near Buffalo, was talking to Rossann Williams, then the company’s president of North American retail. Workers at three nearby stores had recently petitioned to become the chain’s…
62 Way Too Young to Retire, Says Only Rich Country With Falling Life Expectancy
Mylene Deroche/IP3/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.To an American viewer, the current protests over raising France’s retirement age might look a little quaint: the country that once beheaded members of its aristocracy still gets in a tizzy when its president wears an expensive watch.…
Norfolk Southern Employees Suffering From Lingering Illnesses, Scathing Union Letter Says
Gene J. Puskar/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In a scathing letter to Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a Norfolk Southern worker and Teamsters union rep denounced the rail company’s cost-cutting business model, alleging that workers who were deployed to clean up February’s vinyl chloride…
The New York Times Just Dropped a Shocking Investigation on Child Labor in America
Gregory Bull/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Cheerios. Fruit of the Loom. Cheetos. What do all these brands have in common? They’ve all relied on the exploited labor of migrant children, according to the New York Times‘ latest investigation. Journalist Hannah Dreier, who won…
Union-Busting Car Company’s Cars Unsafe
Yay!Britta Pedersen/DDP/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Tesla just realized that testing “self-driving” vehicle technology on public roads isn’t such a good idea, after all. Today, the automaker recalled nearly 363,000 cars equipped with its “Full Self-Driving” technology after a report by the National…
OSHA Is (Finally) Investigating the Hell Out of Amazon
Emanuele Cremaschi/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Jennifer Crane pulled a 50-pound tote off the conveyor belt, boxed it up at her station, and pushed it back on the belt to be labeled and shipped. Mindful of her quota—70 packages an hour for up…