Capitalists and capitalist corporations – even wealthy and powerful ones like Amazon, Ford and General Motors, or ExxonMobil and British Petroleum – are always competing with one another to cut their labor costs in order to produce their commodities more...
The so-called capitalist transition to green energy has a problem: it isn’t profitable to produce cobalt, a key element in the construction of lithium-ion batteries. Most of the world’s cobalt production is currently in China, which has large reserves of the metal....
The following is reprinted from Speak Out Now’s workplace newsletter at Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) in the San Francisco Bay area. Tenants from the Coliseum Connections apartment building next to Coliseum station are still displaced after their building flooded last...
The following is reprinted from Speak Out Now’s workplace newsletter at Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) in the San Francisco Bay area. Clean stations are important to BART riders. Coming into a station that has stuff spilled on the platform or trash scattered in the...
The following is reprinted from Speak Out Now’s workplace newsletter at Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). Classes of new hires have been graduating and joining the ranks. Of course there are some generational differences, there always are. But the question in every...