All posts by Heemang
Musk Threatens To Boot Twitter Account Impersonators – Heemang Parmar
[ad_1] BOSTON (AP) — Elon Musk tweeted Sunday that Twitter will permanently suspend any account on the social media platform that impersonates another. The platform’s new owner issued the warning after some celebrities changed their Twitter display names — not their account names — and tweeted as ‘Elon Musk’ in reaction to the billionaire’s decision…
Home Depot Union Supporters Say They’re Overworked And Understaffed – Heemang Parmar
[ad_1] Felix Allen never understood why tracking down an employee who could help him find what he needed at Lowe’s was so hard. Allen works a merchandiser building product displays for the big-box home improvement chain. Or at least that’s what he’s supposed to be doing. He said the staff is stretched so thin that…
Home Depot Workers Reject Union Effort In Philadelphia – Heemang Parmar
[ad_1] Workers at a Home Depot in Philadelphia voted decisively against unionizing in an election held this week, turning back an effort to form the home-improvement chain’s first organized store. A ballot count held Saturday by the National Labor Relations Board showed the upstart union, Home Depot Workers United, lost 165 to 51. The board…
House Democrats Blast Starbucks For ‘Union-Busting, Intimidation And Retaliation’ – Heemang Parmar
[ad_1] A group of House Democrats sent a scathing letter to Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz on Friday, accusing the coffee chain of wielding its workplace benefits as a cudgel against unionizing baristas. “We are closely monitoring Starbucks’ broad strategy of union-busting, intimidation, and retaliation against employees,” they wrote in the letter, which is posted below….
Chipotle Illegally Closed Store To Kill Union Effort, Officials Say – Heemang Parmar
[ad_1] Federal labor officials filed a complaint Thursday alleging that Chipotle illegally closed a store in Augusta, Maine, in response to an organizing effort by workers. The general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board recommended in the filing that Chipotle be ordered to reopen the store and bargain with the union, according to a…
Starbucks Broke Law By Closing Unionized Store In Ithaca, Labor Officials Say – Heemang Parmar
[ad_1] Federal labor officials have filed a new and sweeping complaint against Starbucks alleging that the coffee chain retaliated against union workers by shuttering a popular location in Ithaca, New York, among other charges. A regional director for the National Labor Relations Board found merit in the union’s claim that the June store closure was…
Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey Launching Test Of Rival Social Network – Heemang Parmar
[ad_1] The app, Bluesky, is gearing up for a test run just after Musk plunked down $44 billion to buy Twitter. It already has a waiting list of users waiting to try out the app’s beta version. It’s not yet clear what Blueksky will eventually look like or how it will function, but it has…
As Puerto Rico’s Privatized Power Grid Collapses, Its Owner Eyes A Bigger Payday – Heemang Parmar
[ad_1] Andrés Gutiérrez Toro considered himself lucky. After Hurricane María destroyed Puerto Rico’s electrical system ― triggering a historic 11-month blackout across much of the island ― and left thousands dead, he lost power for only five months. Still, the situation was so brutal that he ponied up to buy a diesel generator and solar…
Biden’s Climate Law Solved A Major Problem With A Polarizing Fossil Fuel Technology – Heemang Parmar
[ad_1] For years now, the United States has had the technology to capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks before the planet-heating gas enters the atmosphere. But carbon capture and storage hardware proved so expensive and clunky that one of the only ways to make a so-called CCS investment pencil out was to sell the CO2 to…
Amazon Workers In Albany Vote Against Union – Heemang Parmar
[ad_1] Workers at an Amazon distribution center near Albany, New York, have voted decisively against forming a union, rejecting a bid by organizers to create the company’s second unionized facility in the U.S. Employees at the ALB1 facility in Castleton would have been represented by the Amazon Labor Union, the same upstart group that won…
Amazon To Lay Off Another 9,000 Employees – Heemang Parmar
New York Community Bank To Buy Failed Signature Bank – Heemang Parmar
The U.S. Is On The Cusp Of A New Nuclear Energy Milestone — And Debate – Heemang Parmar
Parent Of Silicon Valley Bank Seeks Bankruptcy Protection – Heemang Parmar
U.S. Stocks Fall As Bank Worries Spread To Europe – Heemang Parmar
Cleveland REI Workers Form Union, Adding Fuel To Labor Effort – Heemang Parmar