Why Joe Biden may have just had one of the most productive weeks of his presidency huffpost.com/entry/joe-bide…

Amazon has been fighting a subpoena to produce documents related to in-house expenditures on union-busting at the JFK8 warehouse (e.g., travel expenses for corporate officers to hold captive meetings).

A federal judge just ordered the company to comply:
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I’m honored to be a finalist for the 2024 Livingston Awards for Young Journalists for my coverage of Biden’s Gaza policy

Thank you to those who’ve taken risks to share information & analysis the public deserves, to my incredible editors HuffPost & to my audience. Keep reading!
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The Ivy League has filed an amicus brief in the Dartmouth basketball NLRB case arguing that college athlete unionization 'jeopardizes [our] founding principles.'

'The student’s focus on academics would be lost.'

Full brief: big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/athena/files/2…

Two big things happened today that are extremely popular:
--FTC moved to ban non-competes
--Labor Dept moved to expand overtime protections to millions more workers
Both reforms happened because of Biden and in spite of Republicans. And both could die before GOP-appointed judges.

SUCCESSFUL DEARREST AT LABOR NOTES 2024

When WAMU laid off 16 people and closed DCist, the reasoning given was “content strategy word salad,' per one staffer.

Andrew Beaujon cuts through the jargon and nonsense with a deeply reported, excellent look at what actually happened: washingtonian.com/2024/04/19/why…

This is the 10th REI store to unionize, out of 181, with active campaigns elsewhere. It’s not hard to see this snowballing and the union(s) achieving pretty meaningful density across the chain.

Scoop: The NLRB plans to seek an injunction in federal court against the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette over labor law violations. Petition likely to be filed in coming days.

Workers at the newspaper have been on strike for 18 months.
huffpost.com/entry/pittsbur…

🚨BREAKING: In a historic first, the CAC have accepted a bid for union recognition at Amazon.

Workers in Coventry could become the first ever workforce at a UK Amazon site to win union recognition.

Recognition would enable collective bargaining over pay, terms and conditions.