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United Auto Workers Is Battling the Culture of “Corporate Greed”
American workers are tired and tired of being overlooked while struggling to make ends meet. Meanwhile, corporate profits are soaring to unheard-of heights. According to the Economic Policy Institute, profits at Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis almost doubled between 2013 and 2022, totaling $250 billion. Is that money trickling down to the workers in the automotive plants? Not exactly. Over the past four …
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TV and Film Writers Are Fighting for All Workers Threatened By AI
The Writers Guild of America is out on strike. After six weeks of negotiations with Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Disney, Discovery-Warner, NBC Universal, Paramount, and Sony (under the umbrella of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers), members of the strongest writer's union in the land collectively walked off the job. It sounds like a glamorous job—writing for TV or film. For a select few, it is, and …
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Longhorn Athletes to Benefit from New NIL Deal with Wrangler
University of Texas football coach Steve Sarkisian received a six-year deal worth $34.2 million when he was hired on Jan. 2, 2021. The school's athletic department brings in over $200M per year. College sports is big business in Texas and across the nation, which is news to no one. What is noteworthy today is the inclusion of student-athletes in the lucrative paydays. According to Austin Business Journal, Wrangler …
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Ad Chatter, Season 2, Episode 6 with featured guest Santi Bibiloni of COR
In this special edition of AdChatter, we introduce London-based brand strategist, Toby Donaldson to listeners, plus we feature a special guest, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Santi Bibiloni. Santi founded an eCommerce agency in Argentina when he was just 22 years old. The agency grew to be one of Argentina's fastest-growing companies. Today, Santi is the founder and CEO of COR, a next-generation solution for …
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Brand Reputations Are Inextricably Tied To A Firm’s Operational Realities
Brand reputation is always on the line. Each and every day anything can (and does) happen to ding the brand. Sometimes the ding is more than a ding, it's a gong. Today, the gongs are banging from coast-to-coast as the retail sector is annihilated by the spread of COVID-19. There Is No Safety Net for Majority of America's Workers Over the weekend, The New York Times' editorial board published a tough piece of …
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