Media Bits and Bytes — April 16, 2024
Portside
Warning! Small publishers are on the ropes
Warning! Small publishers are on the ropes
Warning! Small publishers are on the ropes
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America’s Richest Ask the Courts To Make Unions Illegal
American Prospect
Lawyers for Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’s Amazon say the Court erred in 1937 by letting workers have rights on the job.
Media Bits and Bytes – February 20, 2024
Portside
Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of AI?
labor
Can America’s New Union Hero Take On Elon Musk’s Tesla?
BloombergBusinessweek
The UAW’s newish president won Detroit auto workers their best deals in decades. Now he’s out to organize Tesla and the rest of the industry’s EV jobs.
Dispatches From the Culture Wars – January 16, 2024
Portside
Social movements and anti-woke crusades
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NLRB Accuses SpaceX of Illegally Firing Workers for Criticizing Elon Musk
engadget
They wrote an open letter calling his behavior on social media a source of embarrassment.
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Nordic Workers Took On Elon Musk in 2023. Here’s What Could Happen Next
CNN
For labor unions across the Nordics — a region encompassing Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland — the tussle with Tesla and Elon Musk, a vocal critic of unions, is existential.
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Elon Musk: Get Unionized or Get Out!
Common Dreams
"The mistake Tesla made was challenging the collective agreements that set sector-specific minimum wages in Sweden, a country where 70% of the population is unionized," said one political scientist.
Friday Nite Videos | December 22, 2023
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Gary Younge on Race, Racism and Identity. Lock Him Away | Roy Zimmerman. Visual Evidence Shows Israel Dropped Bombs Where It Ordered Gaza Civilians to Go. The Confederate President Wasn't Tried, But Should Have Been. Elon Musk | John Oliver.
Elon Musk: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
John Oliver discusses Elon Musk, the influence he has over more than just his businesses, and the perfect place for him and Mark Zuckerberg to finally have that cage match.
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