Retail Robbery
You want to know how your dollars are spent when you buy stuff? It’s not for the wages of the workers who serve you: Retail workers in New York City earn a median of $9.50 an hour, most are part-time...
View ArticleEpisode 35: From The Bench and On-Line, Amazon and The Supreme Court Gear Up...
In this week’s podcast, my guests help us understand how Amazon and the Supreme Court have a common mission: to undercut the standard of living of millions of people. Amazon’s move to buy Whole Foods...
View ArticleEpisode 109: Amazon Robbery Redux—The Bad, Bad and The Really Bad
I’m a dog with a bone. I take on Amazon for the second straight week for its utter highway robbery, with the willing participation of politicians, of the people of New York and Virginia. Greg Leroy,...
View ArticleEpisode 121: Amazon Turns Tail and Bolts; Strange Demands by The LATimes Owners
Here’s one thing we learned in recent days about Jeff Bezos—like all CEOs, he’s a bully and quite uninterested in engaging in a give-and-take with community leaders where Amazon does business. I talk...
View ArticleEpisode 174: Retail Workers on Corona Frontlines; Amazon Maims; Cori Bush Runs
When I have snuck out briefly in the past couple of weeks to safely get a few items at the supermarket, I made sure to thank the workers in the aisles and my cashier for being on the job, and I also...
View ArticleEpisode 177: Is Your Chicken Worth A Worker’s Life?; Stimulus Done The Right Way
The dinner plates of millions of people are soon going to be an interesting place to focus the mind on the balance between the desire to fill bellies with protein—poultry and pork, mainly—versus the...
View ArticleEpisode 180: Fixing The Pandemic’s Financial Ruin In States and Cities; Trump...
It is quite something to hear the elites in Washington—especially Republican members of Congress and the menace in the White House—blather on about wanting to wait to see how well the previous,...
View ArticleEpisode 213: Bi-Partisanship Kills; Amazon Workers Organize!; Unions...
“Bi-partisanship” is an idea that should make everyone sick to their stomach. When someone is out to kill you, or your nation and community, making a deal for the sake of “bi-partisanship” or, its...
View ArticleEpisode 214: YOUR Four Talking Points For $15-an-Hour Minimum Wage; Alabama...
Right before our eyes, in these very days and at this time of crisis, you can see so clearly this bankrupt system, defended and promoted by greedy CEOs and spineless politicians, but a system people...
View ArticleEpisode 220: Inside The Amazon Union Vote Count!; Yemen Is “Hell On Earth”
I have discussed a number of times the union organizing campaign at Amazon’s warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. So, as the ballot counting is now underway, I thought today we could add two aspects to the...
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