January, 2021 -

Labor

Union Head: NBA Players Want to Be Equity Partners in League

January 20, 2021

Appearing at SporticoLive event earlier this week, National Basketball Players Association executive director Michele Roberts said that the players she represents want to be equity partners in the NBA and will probably pursue that option

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Walmart CEO Says Wage Hike Should Consider Regional Economics

January 20, 2021

Walmart Inc. Chief Executive Officer Doug McMillon said the US needs to confront its health and economic crises — but added he doesn’t support a universal $15 minimum wage. President-elect Biden’s $1.9 trillion plan would raise the federal

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SAG-AFTRA Board Finds ‘Probable Cause’ to Expel Donald Trump, Pending Trial

January 19, 2021

SAG-AFTRA took a major step Tuesday towards kicking Donald Trump out of the union. Meeting in special session, the national board of directors voted overwhelmingly to find “probable cause” that Trump, who has been a member for over 30 years

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Stevie Wonder Uses MLK Day to Request Inequality Commission from Biden Admin

January 19, 2021

Stevie Wonder on Monday posted an emotional open letter to Martin Luther King Jr. in which he said he was using the holiday to call on the Biden-Harris Administration to launch a truth commission on inequality in America.

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How Contract Negotiations in 2021 Could Be Flashpoints in the US Class Struggle

January 19, 2021

“The labor movement’s pundits and prognosticators ring in the New Year like commentators anywhere,” write Rand Wilson and Peter Olney in Labor Notes. “They make pronouncements about what ‘will’ happen and what ‘should’ happen

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Morgan Freeman: Martin Luther King Jr’s Words Fuel 12 Videos to Run on MLK Day

January 18, 2021

Morgan Freeman will commemorate Martin Luther King Jr Day [on Monday] with a series of 12 videos that will begin playing hourly on Freeman’s Instagram page, at 8 AM Eastern time. Each video recalls Dr. King’s words, most of which have

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Another New Covid-19 Variant Discovered in L.A. May Be Vaccine Resistant

January 18, 2021

Two days after the Los Angeles Public Health Department announced that the much-talked-about UK variant of Covid-19, known as B117, had been identified in the region, the California Department of Public Health revealed that another lesser-

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Netflix Wins Big at IDA Awards; ‘Crip Camp’ is Best Doc, Bangerter Best Editor

January 17, 2021

The Netflix documentary Dick Johnson Is Dead, directed by Kirsten Johnson, won two awards on the night, for Best Editing and Best Writing at the International Documentary Association’s IDA Awards. The editor is Nels Bangerter.

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Labor

EPI: Biden’s Proposal Would Be a Lifeline to Workers and Their Families

January 17, 2021

“President-elect Biden announced a proposed relief and recovery package that provides relief that is commensurate with the scale of the economic challenge facing the United States,” writes Josh Bivens for The Economic Policy Institute

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L.A. County Tops 1 Million Coronavirus Cases; Officials Identify First Case of UK Strain

January 17, 2021

Los Angeles county, which has become the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, has reached its grimmest milestone yet as officials confirm more than 1 million total cases of Covid-19. The county continues its trend of at least 100,000

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