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Today on TAP: Commentators argue that the union is asking for too much. But a big win may help the UAW organize the non-union competition.

The White House says there should be no negotiating over an oncoming government shutdown.

A new report shows that Amazon now takes 45 percent of all third-party sales on its website, part of the company’s goal to become a monopoly gatekeeper for economic transactions.

The state’s water crisis hasn’t fully abated, but nobody’s talking about it on the campaign trail.

Today on TAP: To win politically, everything will have to break right for Democrats, and then some.

Pandemic unemployment programs are significantly underreported, giving a misimpression about their effectiveness.

The only way the UAW’s strategy of rejecting voluntary overtime can work is if Ford, GM, and Stellantis lack enough workers to make cars.

If signed by Gov. Newsom, the legislation would set a precedent by requiring large companies to disclose total greenhouse gas emissions.

Today on TAP: Probably not directly, but a good contract is a good selling point to workers at those factories.

Where what matters in House Republican strategy doesn’t actually matter

‘Too big to fail’ is more pervasive and regulation more captured than ever. What went wrong?

In Texas, Attorney General Ken Paxton escaped conviction after being impeached.

Today on TAP: The UAW builds on a tactic—selective strikes—pioneered 30 years ago by the Flight Attendants.

Today’s strikers are seeking to renew the broadly shared prosperity that earlier UAW work stoppages created.

Google claims its product is just superior. Says the former White House competition czar: ‘We now can see that a lot of those arguments are horseshit.’

Activists are pushing Fed vice chair Michael Barr and his deputy Kevin Stiroh to force the financial sector to take climate change seriously.

Today on TAP: After an FDA finding that a popular decongestant is worthless, Biden could direct that agency to fast-track approval of a miracle drug for colds used all over the world.

The ‘Stand Up Strike’ is intended to keep the Big Three automakers off-balance.

Saudi Arabia’s soccer revolution risks perpetrating a similar labor crisis as seen in Qatar during the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

A new documentary, ‘The Five Demands,’ explores the 1969 student campus takeover that reshaped college education in New York.