Labor action on both sides of the Atlantic CNBC — DEC 16 2022 Amazon workers will go on formal strike for the first time in the UK Ryan Browne KEY POINTS Employees at Amazon’s Coventry warehouse in central England voted Friday to go on strike. It will be the first legally mandated strike to take … Continue reading Breaking: Amazon & Starbucks Workers To Strike in the U. K. & U. S.
Families are gathering around the table together and travel is forecast to be at its highest level in decades. Even the anticipated turkey shortage didn’t materialize, according to the USDA. After three long years of socially distanced holidays, we’re back to merely worrying about who might . . . ruin the feast by shouting at each other about politics. . .
Playing the Lottery Winter 1969, Boston. I was driving a cab at night, while attending Harvard Divinity School. I had run through some scholarship and loan money, and needed cash; Christmas and all that. But I also thought it would be a “good experience” for a wannabe writer. When I turned my cab onto St. … Continue reading Another Quaker Holiday Story: Playing the Lottery