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Very proud of Fairmark and our co-counsel for this win! Nine figures (!!) in compensation to unpaid workers will make a huge difference in thousands of people’s lives. Special thanks to @anniecleaver and @Footnote24 for leading our team!
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NC should be so lucky!! @JoshStein_ will make an incredibly thoughtful, compassionate, and effective governor - and an absolutely vital defender of human rights and equality in the state
Don't put it off, just click and send a few $$ right now -- if not for the reasons above.. at least to keep my ncpol cameo streak alive 🤠secure.actblue.com/donate/so…
"This case is about the fact that multinational conglomerate Perdue deceives chicken farmers into working for them with promises of independence and then controls every aspect of their farm while denying
them appropriate pay, benefits, and reimbursements"
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"Lawyers from Fairmark and a team led by Ms. Archer began work on the survey with more than 800 participants...The findings, cited in the lawsuit, showed that Black homeowners had a significantly harder time by several measures." nytimes.com/2022/12/14/busin…
Annie Cleaver retweeted
ICYMI: Pilgrim's Pride filed a motion to squash a big victory for poultry farmers in a South Carolina federal court yesterday. An arbitrator said the farmers could proceed with arbitration as a class, and Pilgrim’s isn’t happy about it. Here’s why this is a big deal. 🧵⬇️
To prove monopoly, revised complaint in HCA antitrust lawsuit points to Mission’s own data
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Annie Cleaver retweeted
Today in our case against HCA: "In massive win for plaintiffs, NC Business Court Judge won't dismiss antitrust lawsuit"
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Big news for NC today as our antitrust case against Mission Health passes its first major hurdle citizen-times.com/story/news…
“I don’t think there’s really any enforcement failure that’s had a larger negative economic impact for consumers than the failure to enforce antitrust laws against hospitals,” said Fairmark’s Brennan Bilberry, who expects the firm to file more lawsuits wsj.com/articles/the-billion…
Annie Cleaver retweeted
Employers and workers spend more than $800 billion a year to buy health insurance. Now, a law firm is bringing a string of lawsuits that claim it's too much because of hospital monopolies, with backing from a billionaire philanthropist.
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Annie Cleaver retweeted
In the U.S., thousands of sheepherders - mostly immigrants from Peru - work in highly insolated conditions to corral millions of sheep.
In a suit filed today, they say ranches are colluding to suppress their pay, a violation of antitrust law.
My latest: reuters.com/legal/litigation…
Annie Cleaver retweeted
A class action lawsuit accuses Advocate Aurora of charging 44% more than the national average for medical care jsonline.com/story/money/bus… via @journalsentinel
.@SRAProject:"The outcome for growers is stories we hear all too often: bankruptcies, crippling medical debt, lost homes...We hope this lawsuit is the start of a broader discussion about how agribusiness giants are exploiting workers and rural communities."sraproject.org/news-and-even…
Annie Cleaver retweeted
"Corporations from Tyson to Amazon to port trucking firms have exploited changes in antitrust laws to push the riskier or labor-intensive parts of their supply chain onto 'puppet entrepreneurs,' who take on all the risks of being a small business without meaningful independence."
My latest in @TheProspect - a class action lawsuit filed yesterday claims that because poultry companies so thoroughly control their contract growers, most chicken farms don't even meet the legal definition of an independent business prospect.org/labor/lawsuit-a…
“It wasn’t very long before we realized that this is not a business model that’s going to be proven by the fruit of our efforts,” says Michael Diaz. “It took our whole savings, and it took every dollar and cent that we brought in outside…”
My latest in @TheProspect - a class action lawsuit filed yesterday claims that because poultry companies so thoroughly control their contract growers, most chicken farms don't even meet the legal definition of an independent business prospect.org/labor/lawsuit-a…
"Poultry corporations have been accused of retaliating against farmers who raise issues, and discriminating against Black farmers by sending contractor growers sick birds, withholding feed, and demanding exceptional equipment upgrades."
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Today, Attorney General @JoshStein_ filed a brief supporting the continuation of an antitrust case against HCA.
"The competition and affordability concerns at the heart of this case could have a significant impact on customers in western North Carolina." ncdoj.gov/attorney-general-j…
