Biden Forms Task Force to Explore Ways to Help Labor
The group will issue recommendations on how the government can use existing authority to help workers join labor unions and bargain collectively.
President Biden, with Vice President Kamala Harris, will promote unions through a White House task force.Credit.Doug Mills/The New York Times
April 26, 2021Updated 5:14 p.m. ET
President Biden signed an executive order on Monday creating a White House task force to promote labor organizing, an attempt to use the power of the federal government to reverse a decades-long decline in union membership.
The task force, to be led by Vice President Kamala Harris and populated by cabinet officials and top White House advisers, will issue recommendations on how the government can use existing authority to help workers join labor unions and bargain collectively. It will also recommend new policies aimed at achieving these goals.
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Rehabilitating Goldman Sachs’s image was one of Jake Siewert’s top priorities.Credit.Johannes Eisele/Agence France-Presse Getty Images
A change of messenger at Goldman Sachs
For nearly a decade, Jake Siewert led Goldman Sachs’s post-crisis efforts to shed its image as one of Wall Street’s most mysterious, and maligned, money machines. We’re the first to report that he plans to announce his departure later today.
Mr. Siewert joined Goldman as its communications chief in 2012, bringing both political connections he was a top aide to Tim Geithner when he was Treasury secretary, and spent eight years in the Clinton administration, including as White House press secretary and experience as a senior executive at Alcoa. (Mr. Siewert’s wife, Christine Anderson, is the global head of external relations at Blackstone.)
Gustavo Dudamel, Superstar Conductor, Is to Lead Paris Opera
In a coup, the venerable company has hired as its next music director the rare classical artist to have crossed into pop-culture celebrity.
Gustavo Dudamel rehearsing for his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 2018. He has dipped his toe in the operatic repertory but is better known as a symphonic conductor.Credit.Vincent Tullo for The New York Times
When Alexander Neef was named the next director of the mighty Paris Opera in 2019, he did not have a particular candidate in mind to succeed the company’s music director, who was leaving after a decade. “I felt I should consult with the musicians,” Neef said by phone recently, “and see who for them, what for them, how for them the future looked like.”
Democrats propose a bill to expand the Supreme Court, but Pelosi pans it.
President Biden has been dismissive in the past about calls to expand the size of the Supreme Court. Credit.Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times
April 15, 2021, 10:26 a.m. ET
A group of House and Senate Democrats on Thursday introduced legislation to expand the Supreme Court from 9 members to 13, trying to spur momentum for the first change in the makeup of the court in 150 years.
The Democrats and progressive activists said the change was necessary to restore balance to the court after Senate Republicans blocked President Barack Obama’s nominee in 2016 and pushed through a third Donald J. Trump appointee, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, just days before last year’s election.
Toshiba’s top executive resigns amid company turmoil.
Satoshi Tsunakawa, the chairman of Toshiba, in 2017. He will succeed Nobuaki Kurumatani, the company’s chief executive and president, whose departure was announced Wednesday.Credit.Toru Hanai/Reuters
April 14, 2021, 8:15 a.m. ET
Toshiba announced on Wednesday the resignation of its top executive, Nobuaki Kurumatani, a move that comes as the Japanese conglomerate faces a potential buyout and a shareholder-initiated investigation into its management practices.
The board appointed Satoshi Tsunakawa the current chairman and previous president to replace Mr. Kurumatani, the company said in a brief statement. It did not explain the reason for the change.