NEW: Joe Manchin is at the center of a major public corruption scandal. A new NYT investigation finds that, for 30 years, Manchin used his official position to benefit a West Virginia power plant, all while getting a cut of its revenue. Here are the most damning details:

NEW: Cannabis workers are trying to form one of Colorado's first growhouse unions at Green Dragon, a massive corporate dispensary. Days after going public, Green Dragon fired every worker, rehired them as contractors and cut their benefits. Workers want Gov. @JaredPolis to act.

BREAKING: Tonight, NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo has escalated the legal fight against Starbucks for its illegal union-busting tactics. Follow along for key details and why this is such an important step by the NLRB. nlrb.gov/news-outreach/…

UPDATE: Kellogg’s VP Ken Hurley has lost his job after being caught on tape by @LHFang calling a union “terrorists” & bemoaning our reporting. He described our videos as “very sophisticated,” “a force to be reckoned with,” & “really impossible for a large company to combat.”

One worker is left to run a Dollar Tree alone in Austin, TX. She says she can’t take breaks or go to the bathroom. Community members are helping her stock shelves. Dollar stores deliberately understaff stores to increase profit margins—at the expense of workers.

The Trump admin & big meatpackers fabricated claims of pork & beef shortages to force workers into dangerous plants at the pandemic's height. **269 workers died** after getting covid-19 in meat packing plants. You must must must read Taylor Telford: washingtonpost.com/business/2022/…

EXCLUSIVE: Trader Joe’s workers in Massachusetts are organizing to form the company’s first ever union. They say Trader Joe's has repeatedly slashed pay & benefits and neglected safety issues in recent years. They're unionizing to make the company live up to its own values.

After the 2008 financial crisis, Occupy Wall Street said the government needed to retake control of our financial system from the banks. On the right, crypto tried to cut out the government from the financial system entirely. We looked into the ideological roots of crypto:

NEW: UPS drivers are collapsing in the street, suffering heat stroke & dying because the company refuses to put air conditioning in their trucks. UPS made $13 billion in PROFIT last year yet won't pay for A/C like FedEx & Amazon already do. This should be a national scandal.

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NEW: Remember the viral “insulin is free” parody tweet that set the internet ablaze? We were behind that. Here’s how our staff writer Sean exposed the greed of Elon Musk and Eli Lilly with just $8, 9 words, and 10 minutes.

I did a… certain tweet two weeks ago. Something about insulin. You probably saw it. Anyway, here’s why I did it:

Groups like More Perfect Union are doing some of the best journalism in the world right now. People and worker focused.

Truckers -- and all workers -- deserve so much better. As usual, the culprit is billionaires and wealth hoarding.

Excited to coordinate with More Perfect Union on telling the story of UnitedHealth. Watch this, and you can see our feature-length version of this history here: prospect.org/health/2023-08…

"Across YouTube, Instagram and TikTok, the company’s video-first approach has drawn millions of subscribers and counting, racking up hundreds of millions of views." Great Laura Wagner piece on More Perfect Union' role in the resurgent labor movement. washingtonpost.com/style/media/20…

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Seriously - if you aren't following More Perfect Union what are you even doing. Great coverage on issues that matter to normal American's and doesn't get a ton of coverage in traditional media.

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