by #NoahLanard in #MotherJones:

"Schultz told this sob story as part of an effort to stop his workers from joining a union. But his telling ignored how his own family was sustained, especially in this trying period, by the gains of organized labor, in the form of post-war New York’s relatively abundant public housing. The two-bedroom unit the Schultzes called home in Brooklyn’s brand new Bayview Houses, built for families who made too much to qualify for other public housing developments, was the product of a New Deal–era partnership between leftists (many of them in the labor movement) and liberal elected officials who’d embraced their views in the wake of the Great Depression. Schultz and fellow elites have rejected that alliance as they cast unions as relics rendered unnecessary by their personal benevolence. Today, a faded plaque bearing the name of Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr.—whose father, a senator, helped pass America’s most important piece of labor legislation—is about the only sign that the city was once proud of the complex."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/03/howard-schultz-starbucks-union-busting-buffalo-brooklyn/

#Starbucks #union #workers #labor #HowardSchultz #UnionBusting #PublicHousing #NewDeal #Buffalo #Brooklyn

by #NoahLanard in #MotherJones:

"Passengers on the boat were positioned according to a dystopian hierarchy. Pakistani men were on the bottom. Women and children were in the middle. Egyptians, Palestinians, and Syrians were on top. The arrangement meant that Pakistani men, along with women and children, had little chance of surviving when the ship capsized."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/07/more-than-600-people-died-after-a-migrant-ship-capsized-a-report-reveals-the-fatal-response/

#Adriana #ship #Egyptians #Palestinians #Pakistani #Syrians #deaths #Mediterranean

MotherJones: We Tried to Call the Top Donors To George Santos’ 2020 Campaign. Many Don’t Seem To Exist.
The list of matters to investigate keeps growing.
#NoahLanard & @DavidCorn
#USPolitics #ElectionFraud #Santos
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/01/we-tried-to-call-the-top-donors-to-george-santos-2020-campaign-many-dont-seem-to-exist/