via @NYTimes President Biden became negotiator in chief last night delivering important gains. “These rail workers will get better pay, improved working conditions and peace of mind around their health care costs, all hard-earned,” he said. nytimes.com/2022/09/15/busin…

nytimes.com/2019/07/11/arts/… via ⁦@nytimes⁩ The original “less is more”: “when the greatest geniuses are working less they actually accomplish more” Leonardo da Vinci.

In VW Chattanooga vote, UAW seeks elusive U.S. southern toehold reut.rs/2KiL2VE Excellent story that captures central issues of the vote and implications of outcome.

California is cracking down on the gig economy vox.com/policy-and-politics/… via @voxdotcom “Independent contractor” just another phrase for nothing left to lose,” as Janis might have said. It repeals much of labor protections of 20th century; exploitation masquerading as gig economy.

Fiat-Renault proposed deal stems from void left last year by exit of two of the industry’s most dominant and hard-driving figures. The weight of scale, merging cultures, and conflicting national priorities could eclipse innovation and building vehicles. wsj.com/articles/fiats-talks…

Howes: FCA-Renault merger is deja vu all over again detroitnews.com/story/busine… merger-deja-vu-all-over-again/1250082001/ Innovation requires disruption; merger too big to disrupt; energy will go into consolidation. Many savings could prove illusory.

Howes: FCA-Renault merger is deja vu all over again detroitnews.com/story/busine… via @detroitnews

“More than a protest vote, Green strength also rests on deep concern in Germany about the state of the planet. German voters told pollsters that the environment was their top concern going into the vote, and that was apparent in the outcome” s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-r…

If Trump NAFTA (aka USMCA) needs to hold infrastructure hostage to pass it is strong indicator flawed trade bill. T-NAFTA will lock in labor status quo—suppressed wages in Mexico—pressing down on wages on both sides of border and costing US workers jobs. api.addthis.com/oexchange/0.…

nytimes.com/2019/05/08/busin… via ⁦@nytimes⁩ Workhorse deal highly speculative; key issue is GM outsourcing; models that could revive Lordstown built in Mexico and elsewhere for sale in U s market.

nytimes.com/2019/05/07/opini… via ⁦@nytopinion⁩ Honesty would be good start; being helpful is a tool to make money; google advertises to make money; not be helpful:

Uber and Lyft drivers are going on strike today—-superb column; these workers are employees and deserve democratic right to join unions; currently not contractors but serfs! static.nytimes.com/email-con…

Uber protest planned Wed sfchronicle.com/business/art…? utm_campaign=CMS%20Sharing%20Tools%20(Premium)&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral Uber drivers deserve decent life. Money sucked to top, employee status & right to organize key for drivers.

Volkswagen Tennessee Union Bid on Hold in Big Defeat for UAW (2) An unambiguous nonsensical anti-union decision that gives catch 22 a bad name. news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-…

The Border Realities Beneath the Fury nyti.ms/2IwPHlP "$7.2 billion in gross output and more than 62,000 jobs are lost annually because of border traffic." "Daily existence is inextricably binational."

Berger’s Ways of Being nybooks.com/articles/2019/05… via @nybooks "He could leap like few others from the politics of an inhuman economic order to the intimacy of experience. He paid no heed to the strictures that divide academic disciplines or conventional forms." All-too-rare today!

Claims Shoddy Production Draw Scrutiny to Second Boeing Jet nyti.ms/2KUz0Th Managers "urged to not hire unionized employees from the Boeing factory in Everett," anti-union attitudes, less experience compromise safety for higher profits next quarter; far costlier long-term

Progressive Capitalism Is Not an Oxymoron nyti.ms/2GpsQoQ Stiglitz' "progressive capitalism" and Sanders' "democratic socialism" both seek to define social democracy for the 21st century; oligarchic capitalism not only slows growth it corrodes and diminishes democracy.

In New Effort to Deter Migrants, Barr Withholds Bail to Asylum Seekers nyti.ms/2VNbEjy. “Give me your tired, your poor,/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,/The wretched refuse of your teeming shore/And, we’ll lock them up...

Trump considered daughter Ivanka for World Bank post via @FT “good with numbers” and “great calmness”? My smartphone has both these qualities and is available for either appointment. on.ft.com/2v5cYT0