United Auto Workers leaders from General Motors facilities across the country have been summoned to a national meeting at the Renaissance Center in Detroit at 10 a.m. Thursday. The meeting is a good a sign that a tentative agreement could be […]
“It was more than a century ago that Upton Sinclair went undercover in Chicago’s stockyards, resulting in his reported novel The Jungle,” writes Kim Kelly in The New Republic. “A blood-splattered portrait of the American meatpacking […]
The nominees for the fourth annual Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards were announced on Monday. The Biggest Little Farm leads this year’s nominations with seven nods, which include best documentary feature, best director … best editing, best […]
California is giving more workers the right to sue their employers for sexual harassment, discrimination and wage theft. Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday signed Assembly Bill 51, which will outlaw the practice of forced arbitration, which requires […]
Taking aim at the vast inequities produced by America’s business-dominated economic system, Senator Bernie Sanders on Monday unveiled a far-reaching proposal that would roll back President Donald Trump’s tax cuts and transfer more power […]
The United Auto Workers union said on Friday that it had countered General Motors’ latest offer and “if GM accepts and agrees to this group of proposals, we will have a tentative agreement.” In a letter to union members, UAW Vice […]
More than 3,600 hourly workers at Mack Trucks Inc., in Florida, Maryland and Pennsylvania went out on strike at six plants at 11:59 p.m. Saturday seeking “fair pay and benefits,” the UAW confirmed early Sunday. “UAW members get up every day […]
Martin Scorsese has wrapped up the London film festival with a defence of the streaming giant Netflix, who stepped in to finance his new film when other backers dropped out. Speaking at a press conference before the international premiere of […]
Shonda Rhimes. Ryan Murphy. Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Those and other big-name showrunners have flocked to Netflix, Amazon Studios and other streamers in recent years as the streaming wars have created an unprecedented competition for talent. […]
It began with a debate about punching Nazis. A graphic artist had been raising money on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter to bring a comic book, called “Always Punch Nazis,” to life. But after the right-wing website Breitbart wrote a story about […]
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