Michael Corkery
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National correspondent at The New York Times. Email me [email protected]
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An Alabama picket line may be one of the most politically united places in the country. The striking miners “are a mix of Trump supporters and Biden voters, Black workers from Birmingham and white workers from rural towns near the mine.” Michael Corkery nytimes.com/2022/04/02/bus…
A miners strike in Alabama has been going on so long some of the miners have picked up work at the Amazon facility in nearby Bessemer, where workers are attempting to unionize. Michael Corkery with the story nytimes.com/2022/04/02/bus…
Rent the Runway, after a tough year, is reporting a post-vax rebound as women dress up again. It's seeing 4x the demand for crop tops versus 2019 and a 44% jump in searches for outfits with cutouts. Read Elizabeth Paton & me on the revival of rental apparel: nytimes.com/2021/05/25/bus…
Why Amazon workers voted against unionizing at the Bessemer, Ala., facility. Smart piece by Karen Weise & Noam Scheiber nytimes.com/2021/04/16/tec…
It's over. Amazon has enough 'No' votes to defeat union drive in Bessemer w/ Karen Weise nytimes.com/2021/04/09/tec…
'From the best of America to the worst of America.' A story about racism, class, the endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and how generations of resentment and pain collided in this one Va. county around Jan. 6. It's incredible. Sabrina Tavernise
nytimes.com/2021/03/08/us/…
'In large cities in Texas, more than a third of workers are back, while the New York, San Francisco and Chicago areas remain below 20 percent.' Interesting snapshot of who is going to office these days. Julie Creswell Gillian Friedman @uwsgeezer nytimes.com/2021/03/03/bus…
“One by one, the hockey players drove down a dark road in the foothills of the Adirondacks in search of fresh ice on a recent Friday night.
The regulars knew where to turn.” Kevin Armstrong on “speakeasy hockey” nytimes.com/2021/02/15/spo…
An eye-opening journey through Biden's economic agenda and the people behind it. Noam Scheiber makes reading about policy easy. nytimes.com/2021/02/11/mag…
How the auto industry's race to curb car emissions spawned an unusual black market for catalytic convertors. Hiroko Tabuchi nytimes.com/2021/02/09/cli…
'The level of sodium hydroxide — the main ingredient in drain cleaner — was changed from 100 parts per million to 11,100 parts per million, dangerous levels that could have badly sickened residents.' Chilling story Frances Robles Nicole Perlroth nytimes.com/2021/02/08/us/…
grocery stores have been booming during the pandemic, but the people who work there have gotten little extra pay in this time. now, even as experts say to minimize time in grocery stores, workers are only eligible for vaccines in 13 states: nytimes.com/2021/02/08/bus… w/Michael Corkery
The most impoverished Los Angeles residents are dying of the disease at four times the rate of the wealthiest. “What kind of virus is this?” one nurse asks. Sheri Fink nytimes.com/2021/02/08/us/…
'His gestures of kindness and respect seem almost quaint now, a throwback to a gentler age when venom was not the elixir of public discourse.' Philip Taubman on George Shultz, an old school statesman. nytimes.com/2021/02/08/opi…
“Much of the world doesn’t work that way, but most of the people who write laws live in the world that works that way.” Conor Dougherty chronicles the unseen struggles of the poor trying to keep a roof over their head nytimes.com/2021/02/06/bus…