WASHINGTON (AP) — Some of Adidas’ remaining Yeezy shoes are back on sale — months after the German sportswear company cut ties with Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West.Adidas ended its yearslong partnership with Ye in late October, in light of his antisemitic remarks and other harmful behavior. In the months that followed, the fate of 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion) worth of unsold Yeezys remained unknown — until earlier this month, when Adidas CEO Bjørn Gulden announced the co ...read more

Trader Joe’s may have run afoul of the law at a store in Minnesota where workers unionized last year. The grocery chain’s management illegally removed union literature from the break room and forbade workers from posting fliers about organizing last November, according to a new complaint filed at the National Labor Relations Board.Advertisement A regional director for the labor board wrote in the filing that, by doing so, Trader Joe’s was “interfering with, restraining, and coercing emp ...read more

The president of the union that’s been organizing Starbucks stores has a message for the coffee chain: Come to the bargaining table — and make it just one table, not hundreds.The union Workers United has been trying to negotiate first contracts for the more than 300 Starbucks locations that have formed unions since late 2021. But since those stores unionized one by one, the coffee chain has maintained that each store should negotiate its own contract.Advertisement Lynne Fox, the union’s p ...read more

Walgreens has reached a tentative settlement with consumers who took faulty Theranos blood tests, according to a court document filed Monday.The proposed settlement agreement will be filed in about three weeks, according to the court document. The details of the agreement are not known.Advertisement In 2017, a class-action lawsuit was filed against Walgreens and Theranos, alleging that the two companies made “pervasive misrepresentations” in their marketing and knew that Theranos’ tests w ...read more

Workers with Southern California Edison replace a transformer on Holt Street in Santa Ana, California, on Sept. 10, 2021, after an evening of lightning storms.MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images via Getty ImagesAs COVID-19 ripped through the global economy in 2020, Ford stopped assembly lines at automotive factories from Michigan to Mexico. The old textile mill in the central Pennsylvania town of Sunbury that had survived the country’s last big wave of fabric plant closures ...read more

EntertainmentBobby Caldwell, R&B Singer Of ‘What You Won’t Do For Love,’ Dead At 71Caldwell’s songs were covered and sampled by Boyz II Men, Michael Bolton, Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G., Lil Nas X, Common and Chance the Rapper.By ANDREW DALTON, AP ...read more