If you still need to do some last minute online holiday shopping watch out – about 100 Atlanta-area drivers who make deliveries for Amazon have joined up with a local Teamsters union chapter to strike in demand of a contract. The showdown stems from Amazon claiming the drivers as independent contractors, while the drivers want to be recognized as full employees (and get the benefits therein). The labor dispute, based out of an Alpharetta shipping facility, has holiday customers DRIFTING…
Carr joins LSU football fight
In the South, college football is religion – and now it’s politics too. Members of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) are furious with LSU over its attempts to sign players already in the NFL to come back to college to play for the Tigers. On Wednesday, Attorney General Chris Carr, (presumably at the behest of some big names at UGA) urged the SEC to take “all measures available” against LSU. Thursday, the league heeded that advice, suing LSU Head Coach Lane Kiffin. The legal quagmire pitting the conference against itself has LSU SINKING…
