Category: Corporations
Photo by lev radin/Shutterstock This past week a video game company in trouble, Gamestop, became the center of media attention. Day traders had driven up the company’s stock price by thousands of percent in just one day. The mainstream media narrative was the “small guy” investor challenged the big boys of finance who had bet Read more…
How companies are holding humanity hostage for profit
Gabrielle (Gay) Semel: Who Invited Them?Employers Like Amazon Should Have No Say in How Workers Organize
John Logan: Amazon Is Paying Consultants Nearly $10,000 a Day to Obstruct Union DriveExpensive and aggressive corporate anti-union campaigns, such as Amazon’s at Bessemer, are, in the words of Marty Levitt, built on deceit and run by bullies
Michael Kwet: Digital colonialism: The evolution of American empireAmerican “Big Tech” corporations are gaining massive profits through their control over business, labor, social media and entertainment in the Global South
Two stories about the consequences of the insatiable greed of capitalism for more energy
This technology has failed to demonstrate any consistent advantages for crop yields or food quality, but has helped drive an unprecedented consolidation of corporate power in the global seed and agrochemical sectors
Chuck Collins: COVID-19 has made the super-rich richerIt’s time for a billionaire wealth tax
No need to be all apologetic about it, either, since we would just be reclaiming the trillions taken by the billionaires
Patricia Gorky: McDonald’s spies on employees organizing for a living wageNew reports show that McDonald’s has spied on workers “for years” in their effort to combat the Fight for $15 movement that has been struggling for a living wage for nearly a decade