The UK and EU made some progress in their vaccination dispute last week. While Brussels stopped short of introducing an export ban, the bloc did give backing for tighter export controls which means that the tug-of-war with the UK over supplies of the A…
The unionization efforts from workers at Amazon’s Bessemer, Ala., warehouse follow several successful union campaigns led by blue collar tech workers and reflect a general increase in activism among tech industry employees. From Amazon workers slamming…
50 years ago, on March 30, 1971, a store selling freshly roasted coffee beans and coffee equipment opened in Seattle’s Pike Place Market. And if anyone had predicted back then that this little specialty store would lay the groundwork for a billion-doll…
As we have entered the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s a growing transatlantic divide in public mood. While the finish line appears to be in sight for the United States, where a rapid vaccine rollout and falling case numbers have sparked …
In yesterday’s release of Ember’s Global Electricity Review, the fact that more than half of the world’s coal-powered electricity in 2020 was produced in China stood out. But this is only half the story. Dramatically rising energy demand in the country…
Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama are pushing to form a union and their votes are set to be counted after one of the most high-profile and consequential unionization drives in recent U.S. history. Their employer remains bitterly opposed to …
Amazon warehouse workers are pushing for union membership in Bessemer, Alabama, a move their employer is bitterly opposed to. Amazon has been criticized heavily for its working conditions during the pandemic and if the warehouse workers manage to union…
Little more than one year ago, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization officially announced that COVID-19 could be classified as a pandemic. “The WHO has been assessing this outbreak around the clock and we are deeply concerned both by the ala…
Progress is finally being made in attempts to free a huge container ship that has been blocking the Suez Canal for nearly a week. Tugboats, dredgers and excavators managed to partially refloat the 200,000 Ever Given though its bow is reportedly still s…
As efforts to dislodge a giant container ship wedged in the Suez Canal have been unsuccessful so far, the world is hoping for a quick resolution to the situation that could potentially evolve into a global supply crisis. Ever since the 1,300-feet long …