Starbucks is closing stores, and 40% of those stores have unionized or are organizing.

Starbucks has taken anti-union measures before.

US citizens: call on the FTC to thoroughly investigate supermarket giant Kroger's proposed merger with Albertsons.

A court already ruled against it, but that's not inevitably final.

(satire) *New STEM Program Teaches Students Skills To Appease Whims Of Capricious Tech CEO.*

I find this especially on target because the absurdity it attacks is the basis of the buzzword " itself.

Some players in the football world cup in Qatar planned to wear armbands to support equal rights for queer people. Qatar said it would respond by taking a step to expel them from the game, so they abandoned these plans.

Qatar violates human rights egregiously — this is one example, but the mistreatment of workers who built the facilities is even more blatant.

We should not allow Qatar any sort of position of special power over any international activity. *By consenting to Qatar's illiberal policies for residents and guests alike, FIFA has further besmirched its already tainted reputation.*

The EU would have the power to make FIFA yield to various human rights rules and agree to require all future world cup hosts to accept them.

A federal court issued an injunction for Amazon to stop firing workers for protesting unsafe working conditions.