@wccjtsan Sens. Elizabeth Warren, (D-Mass.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt), and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) sent a letter to two firms, Apollo Global Management and Blackstone, which previously owned Warrior Met Coal.[Read more at bit.ly/3r48evj by By @billineastala via @aldotcom]
In six-page letters to the firms, the senators also ask for details regarding the time their companies were invested in the coal company.[Read more at bit.ly/3r48evj by By William Thornton @billineastala]
At issue are decisions they say that kept the company alive yet stripped miners of pay and benefits while eventually paying more than $1 billion in dividends to shareholders.[Read more at bit.ly/3r48evj by By @billineastala via @aldotcom]
“While workers endured severe cuts to pay and benefits after the Warrior Met takeover, Apollo and the rest of the private equity consortium appear to have made off like bandits,” one of the letters reads.[Read more at bit.ly/3r48evj by By @billineastala via @aldotcom]
I[Alan G. Ehrlich] have a lot to give thanks for this holiday season. My family and I are all vaccinated and healthy.[Written by Alan G. Ehrlich bit.ly/2SyfWfK]
And I[Alan G. Ehrlich] still have enough energy to play racquetball and register voters!.[Written by Alan G. Ehrlich bit.ly/2SyfWfK]
But I[Alan G. Ehrlich] find myself also in a state of worry at this time for the future of our democracy..[Written by Alan G. Ehrlich bit.ly/2SyfWfK]
@Kenneth88191233 “Unfettered greed is corporate America closing U.S. factories where workers made $30/hour, opening sweatshops abroad where workers make 30 cents/hour,[wroteWarren Gunnels, majority staff directorSenateBudgetComm.Chair Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)][bit.ly/3DQBzNj]
[Unfettered greed ]hiring U.S. workers to sell the sweatshop goods for $8/hour[wroteWarren Gunnels, majority staff directorSenateBudgetComm.Chair Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)][bit.ly/3DQBzNj byJakeJohnson viaCommonDreams&Truthout]
blaming inflation for a 25% price increase at Dollar Tree,” Gunnels[wroteWarren Gunnels, majority staff directorSenateBudgetComm.Chair Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)][bit.ly/3DQBzNj byJakeJohnson viaCommonDreams&Truthout]
@skalvord Democratic leaders are pushing a regressive proposal to allow wealthy property owners to deduct more of their state and local taxes (SALT) from their federal taxes. [Read more at bit.ly/3HJv1T7 by David Sirota @davidsirota via @guardianUS]
This initiative, which would provide almost no benefit to the working class, isn’t some small tweak.[Read more at bit.ly/3HJv1T7 by David Sirota @davidsirota via @guardianUS]
After Democrats gutted their wildly popular initiatives to expand Medicare and lower drug prices, the tax initiative has now become one of the most expensive provisions in President Joe Biden’s entire Build Back Better legislation.[Read more at bit.ly/3HJv1T7]
@cadwego That privileged loophole extends past the borders of Wisconsin. It is on display in the trial of the men who killed Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick, Georgia.[Read more at bit.ly/3cDq7bH by Michael Harriot @michaelharriot via @guardianUS]
an1863 lawThat allows citizens2arrest anyone based on “reasonable and probable grounds of suspicion”, referred to by Cornell professor Joseph Margulies as a “catching-fleeing-slave law”.[Read more at bit.ly/3cDq7bH by Michael Harriot @michaelharriot via @guardianUS]
@TMK11746851 I[Ryan Johnson] Am A Twenty Year Truck Driver, Part 2: How Truckers Are Paid[Read more at bit.ly/30S61Io by Ryan Johnson via @Medium]
If you don’t already know how trucker pay works, you’re likely going to be surprised, maybe even shocked, but you’ll understand why there’s a driver shortage.[Read more at bit.ly/30S61Io by Ryan Johnson via @Medium]
If you think $2.13 an hour is far too low of a wage for servers, as I do, it’s worse for truck drivers.[Read more at bit.ly/30S61Io by Ryan Johnson via @Medium]
@wa8dzp I[Ryan Johnson] Am A Twenty Year Truck Driver, Part 2: How Truckers Are Paid[Read more at bit.ly/30S61Io by Ryan Johnson via @Medium]
If you don’t already know how trucker pay works, you’re likely going to be surprised, maybe even shocked, but you’ll understand why there’s a driver shortage.[Read more at bit.ly/30S61Io by Ryan Johnson via @Medium]
If you think $2.13 an hour is far too low of a wage for servers, as I do, it’s worse for truck drivers.[Read more at bit.ly/30S61Io by Ryan Johnson via @Medium]