Musk Perturbed by Tesla Boycott
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Category: Fighting Back
‘This Guy Is a Leech on the Public’: AOC Rips Musk Over Attack on Social Security
“No matter how many billions he gets in tax cuts and government contracts, it will never be enough for him,”...
Want To Send A Message To Right-Wing Oligarch Bezos? Cancel Amazon Prime
Like huge numbers of y’all I long ago cancelled Wash Po, and regularly resist offers to come back for ridiculously...
Tesla Sales Plummet in Germany Amid Musk’s Support for Neo-Nazi AfD Party
“Limiting yourself to AfD supporters as customers comes at a cost it seems,” said one Germany-based political scientist on Wednesday,...
To Defend Social Security and Medicare From Trump, Seniors Endorse Biden
Three leading groups representing the interests of senior citizens made clear Wednesday they believe that Democratic President Joe Biden is...
‘Donald Trump Is a Scab’: UAW Endorses Joe Biden for President
After a monthslong delay partly related to electric vehicle policy, the United Auto Workers on Wednesday endorsed Democratic U.S. President...
Families condemn Koch brothers over ploy to avoid asbestos compensation
Asbestos victims, their families and attorneys are claiming a Koch Industries-owned company and its lawyers are using a controversial bankruptcy...
IMF Head Advocates For End Of Fossil Fuel Subsidies At COP28 Climate Summit
As the Earth hurtles toward a full fledged climate catastrophe, is there anything dumber than governments giving subsidies to fossil...
UAW Go Big Strategy Focuses On Non-Union Automakers, Including Tesla
The United Auto Workers just pulled off one of the most successful stikes in history. In a carefully coordinated campaign...
UAW Pledges All Necessary Resources to Help Unionize Key Tesla Factory
The United Auto Workers has reportedly offered to provide organizers with all the resources they need to unionize Tesla’s electric...
Progressives eye next potential unionization target: Tesla
As members of the United Auto Workers union strike for better pay and benefits at General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis plants, labor...
US Billboard Campaign Blasts Fossil Fuel Giants for Causing Extreme Heat
As about 111 million people in nearly two dozen states continued to face heat advisories, with temperatures reaching as high...
Pharma lobby furious over wildly popular effort to curb drug prices
Predictably, the pharmaceutical lobby responded with outrage on Tuesday after the Biden administration took its first, modest step toward directly...
82% of Voters Oppose GOP Push to Cut Social Security for Americans Under 50
The vast majority of U.S. voters across the political spectrum don’t support Republican proposals to gut Social Security benefits for...
Power companies spend millions to fight Maine’s proposed non-profit utility
Residents in Maine are about to be bombarded with a multimillion-dollar public relations campaign aimed at saving the state’s two dominant electric...
To End ‘Disgrace’ of Poverty Wages, Sanders Bill Would Hike Federal Minimum to $17
Decrying the “national disgrace” of poverty wages in the world’s richest country, Senator Bernie Sanders on Thursday introduced legislation that...
How union workers are breaking new barriers
The device failed to turn on, so Sapien picked up another. When it also failed, he reached for a third....
1,300 Scientists Urge JPMorgan Shareholders to Vote for End to New Fossil Fuel Financing
As the fossil fuel-driven climate crisis continues to wreak havoc around the globe, more than 1,300 scientists and researchers on...
Watch: Bernie Sanders blasts Starbucks CEO for ‘waging’ a ‘vicious and illegal union-busting campaign’
On Wednesday morning, March 29, the Senate HELP Committee (Health, Education, Labor and Pensions) held a hearing of Starbucks’ labor...
Biden Tax Boost Targeting the Rich Called ‘Fair, Popular, and Long Overdue’
While far-right Republicans continue threatening to blow up the global economy unless Congress makes cuts to popular social programs, progressive...
Biden Plans To Shore Up Medicare By Making The Rich Pay Their Share
President Biden’s plan to save Medicare raises taxes on the wealthy and eliminates a loophole that allows the rich to...
Democrats Dismiss Solvency Fearmongering While Offering Social Security Fix
Following a dramatic State of the Union moment in which President Joe Biden called out Republican proposals to slash Social...
Manchin-Romney attack on Social Security is ‘last thing we need’: Sanders
Progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday slammed right-wing Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin’s widely panned proposal to explore slashing Social Security...
Chipotle Borrows From Starbucks’ Playbook As Workers Push To Unionize
In December 2021, Winifer Pena Ruiz got a new job at a Chipotle in the Bronx. She was an aspiring...
Starbucks Union Workers Have a Holiday Wish: Don’t Buy Starbucks Gift Cards
Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) has a birthday on Friday, and is holding ten rallies across the country to celebrate with the...
Over 100 Starbucks Stores Go on Strike to Protest Company Union Busting
Workers for more than 100 Starbucks locations nationwide are staging a strike on the company’s “Red Cup Day” on Thursday...
Former Twitter VP urges companies pull advertising from platform — citing Elon Musk’s ‘toxic takeover’
Twitter’s former Vice President of Global Media Katie Jacobs Stanton is urging advertisers to pull their money from the microblogging...
UN Chief Blasts PR Industry for Spearheading Big Oil’s Propaganda Machine
During his wide-ranging plea for fundamental change delivered Tuesday at the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, U.N....
Democrats Target Big Oil for Stifling Free Speech to Block Climate Action
Civil libertarians applauded Wednesday as a U.S. congressional committee held a hearing to “examine how the fossil fuel industry is...
Starbucks creating ‘culture of fear’ as it fires dozens involved in union efforts
More than 85 workers at Starbucks who were heavily involved in union organizing efforts at giant coffee chain have been fired over...
Judge Orders Starbucks To Reinstate 7 Fired Union Supporters In Memphis
A federal judge in Tennessee has ruled that Starbucks must offer reinstatement to seven workers in Memphis who were fired...
Why Trader Joe’s employees are fighting to unionize
There was a big lie that modern corporations sold to American workers in the late 20th century and into the...
‘They don’t care about us’: US Starbucks workers allege they were fired for union activity
Nine Starbucks workers at three stores in Denver, Colorado, who were fired shortly after their stores voted to unionize allege they were...
Senator Sanders pushes for windfall profits tax on Big Oil
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday slammed oil companies for raking in huge profits on the backs of U.S. consumers and...
Apple Store Workers In Maryland Become First To Unionize
Workers at an Apple store outside Baltimore have formed the tech giant’s first retail union in the U.S., marking another...
Shell Consultant Quits, Citing “Disregard For Climate Change Risks”
Caroline Dennett has been a senior safety consultant for Shell for 11 years, but in an emotional farewell video, she...
Democrats Demand Funds for Underfunded Labor Board
As labor uprisings heat up and spread across the country, a group of House Democrats is calling for an increase...
Apple Store Workers in Atlanta File for Union Election
Workers at an Apple store in Atlanta filed for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday,...
In Jab at Manchin, Sanders Demands ‘Strategic Pause’ in Corporate Welfare
Repurposing a phrase right-wing Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin recently used to obstruct social spending and climate legislation, Sen. Bernie Sanders...
‘David Beats Goliath’: Workers in New York Vote to Form Amazon’s First-Ever Union in US
Amazon warehouse workers in Staten Island, New York won their election Friday to form the retail giant’s first-ever union in the...
Airport Workers Protest Across US Demanding ‘Living Wage’ and Right to Union
Contracted airport workers—including baggage handlers, cabin cleaners, security officers, and wheelchair agents—in more than 20 U.S. cities staged coordinated demonstrations Wednesday...
Katie Porter Takes Her Whiteboard To House Medicare For All Hearing
Progressive U.S. lawmakers, public health advocates, and universal healthcare campaigners testified Tuesday at the first congressional hearing on Medicare for All legislation...
Fonda Launches Climate PAC to Break Big Oil’s ‘Stranglehold’ on US Politicians
Vowing to “do whatever it takes to defeat the political allies of the fossil fuel industry, no matter which side of...
Democrats Introduce Windfall Tax on Big Oil
Congressional Democrats on Thursday introduced the bicameral Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax to target price gouging by profit-gorging fossil fuel companies...
Grassroots energy projects are taking back power from utility companies
From solar power that cuts NYC energy bills and powers streetlights in Detroit to affordable high-speed internet throughout the United...
‘Give Workers a Fair Shake,’ Sanders Implores CEOs in Speech to Kellogg’s Strikers
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday addressed a Michigan rally of striking Kellogg’s union workers and their supporters, calling on all...
‘Acting Like Republicans’: Sanders Rips Manchin and Sinema for Betraying US Families
With Democrats’ Build Back Better package hanging in the balance, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont on Thursday called out fellow...
Why Amazon is terrified of its U.S. workers unionizing
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has just ruled that a historic union vote held earlier this year among Amazon...
Bernie Sanders Is Showing the Democrats How to Take on Joe Manchin
For months, Bernie Sanders has been making a case for the multitrillion-dollar reform bill he’s spearheaded in the Senate. Now,...
Biden Fires Trump’s Social Security Saboteurs
President Biden on Friday fired Social Security Commissioner Andrew Saul, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, after Saul refused...
