Latest articles Friday March 5, 2021

1. Featured Story: Amazon’s union campaign is succeeding where other unions failed

   Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama, are currently voting by mail on whether or not to form a union. Their campaign against one of the world's most powerful -- and most anti-union -- corporations has captured public imagination, and inspired young activists, in a way that hasn't happened in almost a century.

   By John Logan

1. Silicon Valley’s corporate ‘mindfulness’ hypocrisy

   Silicon Valley is notorious for its idiosyncratic blend of free-market libertarianism and ersatz corporatist spirituality. Perhaps it all started at Apple with Steve Jobs and his dilettantish interest in Zen Buddhism, even though he often called his employees shitheads and was seen as a tyrant and bully. Little did Jobs know of the dark side of Zen’s long history of militarism and its cooptation by Japanese imperialism.

   By Ron Purser

   From the Delivering Happiness desk