May 2021

SBA SAYS MANY SMALL BIZ “are still struggling to recover.” Minority-owned “are hurting the most.” Here’s how to get $5,000 grants in “Supplemental Targeted Advances”

HANDS DOWN: AMZN unveils at Whole Foods its device that uses your unique “palm print signature” to checkout & pay & enter a store. If

PEPSI GAVE $500 K TO U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, which lobbies against FOR THE PEOPLE ACT, which ends state voter suppression laws. Tell Pepsi you’ve

UNION WINS CASE AGAINST MACY’S, 11,000 workers recoup commission pay they lost when customers use “scan & pay” apps. WMT & TGT have similar apps.

IN 2019, A CA. JUDGE AWARDED WALMART WORKERS $102M over wage statement violations. WMT has settled another 4 year old wage lawsuit over inaccurate, confusing

WALMART OWNS 77% of FlipKart, India’s online shopping service, made $6.1 B in revenue from India in 2019. Giving aid to India in their covid

UNITED NATIONS SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM THROWS SUPPORT BEHIND DIRECT GLOBAL INITIATIVES, Local Driver Co-op. A voice for gig workers & Mom & Pop retailers. https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/united-nations-announces-its-support-of-direct-global-and-its-sustainable-development-initiatives-1030387274

WORKERS AT TRADER JOE’S paint a dismal picture of how they’ve been treated during the pandemic. “Countless employees have gotten sick with Covid-19 contracted at

“FEW COMPANIES HAVE BENEFITTED FROM THE PANDEMIC…as much as AMZN…the company’s business continues to be buoyed by the pandemic.” $108.5 B in Q1 revenue. So

IN 1992, BILL CLINTON promised “to end welfare as we’ve come to know it.” 29 years later, Joe Biden said “Let’s end cancer as we

MY FAV BIDEN JOBS PLAN QUOTE: “Wall St. didn’t build this country. The middle class built this country. And unions build the middle class. And

UBER GIG DRIVER SPEAKS OUT: “The fares are getting really bad…this is absolutely a disaster..If we don’t drive…they don’t make money.” Caravan of Courage –

WALMART SAYS “90 % of Americans live within 10 miles of a Walmart.” Pres. Biden says: “90% of Americans now live within 5 miles of

COVID HAS KILLED 3.1 M PEOPLE, but it’s been a financial windfall for grocery chains like Albertsons, which has expanded its contracts with Adobe to

Photos from Local Driver Coop’s “Caravan of Courage” in Toronto—gig drivers pushing out Uber & Lyft from behind the steering wheel: https://m.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=localdrivercoop&set=a.4043875252339795 A rainy day

HELLO FRESH MEAL DELIVERY SERVICE agrees to pay $14 M to settle a class action lawsuit over their marketing calls to people on the Do

“READY TO TAKE ON THE WORLD” at $15/hr. No college degree needed to sort packages for Amazon. Must be at least 18 years old, &