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BREAKING: The biggest strike against Amazon in U.S. history is happening right now.

The Teamsters are picketing facilities across the country.

The union has organized workers at 10 Amazon locations AND they're putting up picket lines at hundreds of other Amazon sites nationwide.

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders is introducing an amendment to cut ICE’s $75 billion funding increase, and to use those funds to restore the federal cuts to health care.

BREAKING: Philadelphia workers have won the first Whole Foods union under Amazon with UFCW.

Since Amazon bought the chain, workers have lost benefits and felt the squeeze.

Now they're fighting back against the multi-trillion dollar giant and hoping this win will be the first of many.

This guy gets it.

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BREAKING: Delta is suspending its special service desk for members of Congress until TSA is fully funded, per @ajc.com.

Delta says members of Congress will now be treated like all other flying customers.

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The airport perks for Congress may be drying up, not a minute too soon

Delta Airlines suspends its special congressional service, while a Senate bill could end the line-skipping perk for members of Congress.

Some federal workers are going back to work.

The USDA has been ordered to temporarily give over 5,000 workers their jobs back.

Dozens of CDC scientists have been reinstated after being illegally fired.

The National Science Foundation has rehired half of the workers it fired.

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike.

Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%.

Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.

BREAKING: Congressman Johnny Olszewski (D-MD) is introducing a constitutional amendment to establish term limits for Supreme Court Justices.

The ROBE Act would establish 18-year term limits for justices.

BREAKING: Amazon workers in NYC are going on strike right before Christmas—the company's busiest time.

The first unionized Amazon warehouse is going to shut down in a historic walkout.

Workers plan to hit the company where it hurts to win their first union contract.
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How Amazon Ruined Christmas

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BREAKING: Maryland is about to become the first state in the nation to ban the use of surveillance data and dynamic pricing at grocery stores.

The Maryland House has just passed the Protection from Predatory Pricing Act.

Governor Wes Moore plans to sign the bill.

BREAKING: A Senate committee has just approved a bill to ban stock trading for members of Congress, the VP, and the President.

The bill can now go before the Senate.

BREAKING: Two Democratic Reps. are introducing a bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $25/hr and eliminate subminimum wages.

Reps. Delia Ramirez and Analilia Mejia are introducing the bill, saying it's unacceptable that the minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 since 2009.

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani announces click-to-cancel rule for NYC.

This rule is aimed at guaranteeing New Yorkers can cancel subscriptions as easily as they sign up — and stopping corporations from trapping customers.

This will save New Yorkers up to $162.5 million per year.

BREAKING: Workers at CBS are walking out.

The unionized team that works CBS' streaming service are going on a 24 hour strike in New York and San Francisco.

The walkout comes after negotiations with CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss reportedly imploded.

Unionized Starbucks workers are on strike in:
-California
-Colorado
-Illinois
-Massachusetts
-New Jersey
-New York
-Ohio
-Oregon
-Pennsylvania
-Missouri
-Texas
-Washington

The strike could reach “hundreds of stores” by Tuesday, according to @sbworkersunited.org.

BREAKING: Starbucks Workers United is going on strike.

Tomorrow unionized Starbucks workers are walking out in multiple key cities. And @sbworkersunited.org's rolling strike will grow in the coming days.

537 stores and 10,000+ workers are in the union and could potentially strike.

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week.

For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead.

One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility

A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

BREAKING: A jury has found Live Nation and Ticketmaster to be an illegal monopoly that overcharges fans.

After the federal government settled the case, 34 states kept pursuing the giant ticket and concert company.

Now, the states have won.

Thousands of workers are threatening to strike at the Los Angeles World Cup stadium.

The SoFi Stadium plans to host two of the three US Men's World Cup matches, but now 2,000 cooks, servers, bartenders and more may strike.

Their main issue? ICE being present at the World Cup.

FIFA faces new crisis as SoFi Stadium workers in LA threaten strike action

The union UNITE HERE Local 11 has made a series of demands to FIFA and voiced major concerns about ICE agents around World Cup venues

First the city council in this Missouri city approved a $6 billion data center, despite massive pushback.

Then, during yesterday’s election in Festus, MO, residents overwhelmingly voted to kick out the incumbents who voted for the project.

America is fed up with data centers.

Massachusetts decided to tax the rich, and collected $2.6 billion over the last 10 months.

That’s $2.6 billion more to spend on transportation and education.

The City of Atlanta is opening its first municipal grocery store today.

The city is spending $3.5 million in partnership with a neighborhood grocery chain in an effort to eliminate a downtown food desert.

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City of Atlanta opening grocery store to clear up downtown food desert

The Azalea Fresh Market opens on Friday.

BREAKING: Amazon drivers at a major Atlanta facility have voted unanimously to authorize a strike.

They join @teamsters.bsky.social in NYC, Illinois, and California in authorizing strikes at Amazon in the lead up to Christmas — the company's busiest days.

Unbelievable stuff from the Washington Post on behalf of Jeff Bezos today.