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Why the Soviet Union built a $30 million resort and let it rot

Deep in a Georgian forest stood a Soviet resort built exclusively for Communist elites. Designed for luxury, healing, and political favor, it hosted figures like Joseph Stalin himself. When the Soviet ...
Mother Jones

Trump Is Hellbent on Crushing Federal Unions, But They’re Still Kicking

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Chandler Bursey used to have an office. It was a modest room at the Veterans Affairs ...
CNN

House Republicans throw federal labor unions a lifeline in a rare rebuke of Trump

A group of House Republicans handed President Donald Trump a rare rebuke on Thursday, voting to restore collective bargaining rights he had stripped from about 1 million federal workers earlier this ...
Grub Street

She’s Still Fighting Starbucks Four Years Later

Honey’s Bistro, a fast-casual café just steps away from the LIRR in Glen Head, features many of the telltale signifiers of 2010s design and menu planning. A letter-board menu lines the wall, plastic ...
TheWrap

Unions Raise Flag on Disney-OpenAI Deal’s Infringement Concerns: ‘Built Its Business Off Our Backs’

The Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA have released statements in response to The Walt Disney Company’s deal with OpenAI that will license hundreds of the company’s characters for use on the AI ...
CNN

Starbucks workers are still without a labor deal four years after their first union win. Here’s why

August Code works at the first ever Starbucks location to unionize in 2021. But four years after that vote, she and her co-workers in Buffalo, New York, are still waiting on their union contract. “I ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

Historic Utah train depot, left without passengers for nearly 3 decades, may see return to service

Ogden • On a recent brisk Wednesday morning, bundled-up commuters hustled to catch a southbound FrontRunner train from Ogden Central Station. They didn’t stop to linger on the station’s exposed ...
The Business Journals

How union built projects strengthen Sacramento’s economy and communities

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. When cranes rise and crews get to work, it’s easy to ...
Yahoo! Sports

WNBA and players union near extension deadline without CBA resolution. What’s next?

The WNBA and the league’s players union have held regular meetings since the sides agreed to a 30-day extension of the current collective bargaining agreement in late October. Sunday night marks the ...
Times of San Diego

Dollar store workers fight to improve jobs — even without a union

This article was produced by Capital & Main. It is published here with permission. When a Dollar General stocker named David Williams saw two of his co-workers struggling to subdue a would-be ...
Penn Live

HACC faculty union says its next strike won’t stop without a contract

HACC’s faculty union canceled plans to go back on strike this week, but could go back to the picket lines Monday, according to a news release from the college’s education association. The union and ...