Tesla and Elon Musk Appeal NLRB Ruling about Union Activities
From today’s Detroit Bureau: Tesla CEO Elon Musk wants his day in court, and the EV maker’s filed a petition to get it, appealing a recent ruling by the U.S.…
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MLB Pulls All-Star Game from Atlanta in Protest of Restrictive New Voting Law
From today’s NBC News Online: Major League Baseball on Friday pulled this year’s All-Star Game out of Atlanta in protest of Georgia’s new restrictive voting law. The “Midsummer Classic” was…
Silicon Valley’s essential workers form new group to fight for work rights
From today’s San Jose Spotlight: A group of six essential workers and labor leaders stood in front of McDonnell Hall in San Jose Wednesday—the same church labor activist Cesar Chavez…
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California pays homage today to another American hero with a complex legacy
From today’s Los Angeles Times: Let me tell you about an American hero whom the San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education might find, um, troublesome. He opposed undocumented…
Georgia’s shameful new voting laws are a product of GOP desperation
From today’s Washington Post: The tableau of Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signing a new elections law said it all: six White legislators flanking the Republican governor, his pen poised above…
The Republican Party’s Irrational War on the Voting Rights of Americans
From today’s The Atlantic: In February, Arizona state senators tried to have the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors thrown in jail. The legislators had demanded that the county officials hand…
The Unionization Vote at Amazon
From today’s New York Times: The most closely watched union election in recent history is underway in Alabama, where almost 6,000 workers at an Amazon warehouse near Birmingham are voting…
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam restores voting rights for ex-felons
From today’s Axios Online: Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) restored the voting rights of 69,000 former felons on Tuesday through executive action, the governor’s office announced in a statement. Why…
Progressive groups launch $30 million effort to push voting rights legislation
From CNN Online: Two left-leaning groups are teaming up to pour $30 million into an effort to persuade US senators to pass a sweeping voting rights bill that would counter…