Seattle’s Office of Labor Standards (OLS) says thousands of Amazon Flex drivers will soon receive payments after the agency and the company reached a nearly $3.8 million settlement tied to the city’s gig-worker protection laws. Amazon Flex is a network company that contracts with drivers to deliver items across several Amazon business lines. The company has thousands of workers in Seattle and hundreds of thousands worldwide. Drivers use their own cars to deliver Amazon packages. OLS had investig

Erin Annis is one of more than 40 million Americans who rely on federal food assistance — but due to the government shutdown, that help may soon run out, after the USDA declared that there will be no benefits issued beginning Saturday, November 1. The largest labor union of federal employees in the U.S. is now breaking with Democrats and pushing for an immediate deal to end the government shutdown, as thousands of federal workers will not get their scheduled paychecks this week. https://cbsn.ws/