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What Happened When the Skating Coaches Wanted a Union
A simmering labor dispute involving figure skating coaches at Sky Rink in Manhattan ramped up in recent days after two…
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Business
The ‘Fall Guy’ Filmmakers Have a Cause: Give Stunts an Oscar
The academy is keeping mum about the prospect, but the movie is part of a renewed push for a new…
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World
A Portrait Artist Fit for a King (but Not a President)
Jonathan Yeo, about to unveil a major new painting of King Charles III, also counts Hollywood royalty (Nicole Kidman) and…
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News
The ‘Impossible Life’ of Equal Devotion to Art and Mothering
“Too much life enters this house,” Tillie Olsen, the writer, labor activist and mother of four daughters, wrote in a…
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If Bird Flu Spreads, These Workers Will See It First
H5N1 is in a better position than ever to move between species and spill over aggressively into humans: This bird…
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The Price We Pay for Having Upper-Class Legislators
There is a coordinated, nationwide effort to roll back child labor laws, part of a broader campaign to concentrate even…
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The Mostly Persuasive Logic Behind the New Ban on Noncompetes
The Federal Trade Commission used two very different rationales to get to its near-total ban this week on noncompete agreements.…
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Business
F.T.C. Issues Ban on Worker Noncompete Clauses
The rule would prohibit companies from limiting their employees’ ability to work for rivals, a change that could increase competition…
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News
One Potential Key to Knicks’ Season: Friendship
Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart and Donte DiVincenzo have been buddies since college, a situation that those who study the workplace…
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Business
Google Fires 28 Employees Involved in Protest of Israeli Cloud Contract
The dismissals escalated longstanding tensions between company leaders and activist employees opposed to supplying technology to Israel’s government.