Half a Million South Korean Workers Prepare to Walk Off Jobs in General Strike Truthout
Pfizer profits
Exposed: How Pfizer Exploits Secretive Vaccine Contracts to Strong-Arm Governments Common Dreams
In secret coronavirus vaccine contracts with governments, Pfizer took hard line in push for profit, report says Washington Post
#Striketober
‘People are fed up’: Dollar General workers push to unionize amid hostility from above Guardian
A $2.1 Billion Pandemic Lifeline for Undocumented Workers Runs Out NYTimes
Flight attendants at Piedmont Airlines are in the final days of a strike vote Philadelphia Inquirer
ILWU Profile: Marcus McDade, Working on Oakland’s Waterfront Oakland Post
Oakland’s longshore and dock workers are the frontline essential workers for economic pandemic relief and supply-chain restoration.
Diaper prices are up 14% this year due to diaper giants needing to pay billions more to buy back stock I mean supply chain disruptions. pic.twitter.com/6cucgb7nlV
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) October 18, 2021
Stopping pipelines
Im/migrants and refugees
Trump’s Pentagon Chief Quashed Idea to Send 250,000 Troops to the Border NYTimes
‘Open door to NATO’ for Georgia, Ukraine as Pentagon chief Austin visits eastern Europe Washington Times
Iranian supertanker departing from Venezuela to transport heavy oil Reuters
Thread. This week, the New York Times's recent dangerous reporting on "crime" reached a new low. I try to document what happened carefully below, because what happens to the leading newspaper in the U.S. has effects on how we all get information about the world.
— Alec Karakatsanis (@equalityAlec) October 17, 2021
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