More Than Just One Day: Keeping Up The Momentum Of International Women’s Day
By Katica Roy, CEO and founder, Pipeline Last month, people around the world celebrated the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women for International Women’s Day. While March 8 serves as a meaningful moment...
He’s Worked For Stop & Shop For 48 Years. Here’s Why He’s On Strike.
More than 30,000 Stop & Shop grocery store workers have been on strike in New England since last week in the largest private-sector U.S. work stoppage in three years. The United Food and Commercial...
American Airlines To Keep Boeing 737 MAX Planes Grounded Until Mid-August
CHICAGO (Reuters) - American Airlines Group Inc said on Sunday it is extending Boeing Co 737 MAX cancellations through Aug. 19, leading to about 115 daily canceled flights, or 1.5 percent of its daily...
Stop & Shop Workers Just Launched A Massive Strike Across New England
Roughly 31,000 employees of the grocery store chain Stop & Shop launched the largest private-sector strike in the U.S. in years, walking off the job at 240 stores across New England on Thursday. Leaders at...
National Enquirer Parent Company Explores Possible Sale Of Tabloid
NEW YORK (AP) — The supermarket tabloid under fire for paying hush money to a former Playboy model to help Donald Trump in his 2016 presidential campaign is on the auction block. The parent of...
Fisher-Price Issues Warning After 10 Babies Die In Rock ‘N Play Sleeper
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission on Friday warned parents and caregivers against using a Fisher-Price sleeper that played a role in the deaths of several infants. The sleeper, known as the Rock ’n Play,...
Reebok Denies Rumors That Beyoncé Walked Out Of Meeting Over Lack Of Diversity
Amid rumors that Beyoncé walked out of a meeting with Reebok due to a lack of diversity at the company, the brand has vehemently denied the claims.A spokesperson for Reebok told HuffPost: “The report...
Jeff And MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Divorce
The two announced they’d finalized their divorce in a coordinated series of messages, published on Twitter almost simultaneously Thursday. In addition to extolling one another’s virtues and pledging to move forward as “co-parents” and...
Patagonia Takes A Stand Against Companies Not Working To Better The Environment
Patagonia, the company that urges people not to buy its jackets ― and instead just fix the ones they already have ― is applying that message on a broad new level. The environmentally conscious outdoor...
Icelandic Budget Airline Wow Air Collapses, Leaving Passengers Stranded
Wow Air has ceased all operations, cancelling all of its flights and leaving thousands of passengers stranded. In the early hours of Thursday morning the Icelandic airline said it had halted all flights while completing...
Shaquille O’Neal Joins Board Of Embattled Papa John’s Pizza
Shaquille O’Neal will join the board of Papa John’s, making him the first African-American director at a company still suffering from its founder’s various scandals. O’Neal, an NBA Hall of Famer and actor who has...
Oil Giants Invest $110 Billion In New Fossil Fuels After Spending $1 Billion On...
The world’s five largest publicly traded oil companies are increasing their investments in oil and gas, putting a combined $110 billion in new fossil-fuel production. Meanwhile, those firms are projected to spend just $3.6...
SEC Urges Court To Hold Elon Musk In Contempt Over Tweets
DETROIT (AP) — U.S. securities regulators countered Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s contempt-of-court defense Monday night, writing in court papers that he brazenly disregarded a federal judge’s order and that one of his arguments “borders...
Exxon’s Climate Denial Set To Face First Public Scrutiny As Legal Woes Mount
It’s been nearly four years since leaked documents revealed Exxon Mobil Corp. understood that fossil fuel emissions caused the planet to warm before it began funding a Big Tobacco-style misinformation campaign to discredit climate...
Report: Safety Analysis Of 737 MAX Software Program Had ‘Crucial Flaws’
A safety analysis of a new software program that was installed on Boeing’s 737 MAX aircraft reportedly had crucial flaws. Boeing is facing scrutiny over the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS), a software program that...
Big Business Spent $1.4 Billion On PR, Advertising Over The Last Decade
Fossil fuel and other corporate trade groups paid public relations and advertising firms at least $1.48 billion from 2008 to 2017 to help them win over the American public. The total is drawn from new...
Inside The Union-Busting Campaign At America’s Original Craft Brewery
Since mid-February, managers at Anchor Brewing Co., the San Francisco icon that industry insiders consider the birthplace of American craft beer, have promised to remain neutral as 70 workers decide whether to unionize with...
Teamsters Union Faces Revolt From Members Over UPS Contracts
When UPS workers in western Pennsylvania held a vote on their new collective bargaining agreement earlier this year, 96 percent of them voted against it and told their union, the Teamsters, to go back...
Thrilled With Trump’s Tax Law: Blue Cross Blue Shield Parent HCSC Reaps $1.7 Billion...
The Chicago-based company that operates a lucrative network of Blue Cross Blue Shield health insurance plans made out like gangbusters with President Donald Trump’s tax law. Even though it paid no taxes last year,...
Severance Pay Could Be The Next Big Progressive Labor Cause
The recent mass store closures at retail chains Toys R Us and Sears have spawned a campaign to guarantee severance pay to laid-off workers. Its backers now face their first big legislative test: a...