[Link] The Starbucks Union Push Is So Successful It Could Start a Turf War

Read: 6/5/2022 www.vice.com

The UFCW filed to represent workers at three Starbucks in Wisconsin. Not everyone is happy about that. The tsunami of union organizing at Starbucks is one of the U.S. labor movement’s most high-profile successes in recent years.

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[Link] Johnson makes ‘unbelievably crass’ joke about Thatcher closing coal mines

Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

On a visit to Scotland on Thursday, the prime minister made a number of provocative comments, stating that a second referendum on Scottish independence is “about as far from the top of my agenda as it is possible to be”.

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