Open Markets Food & Power reporter Claire Kelloway published a story on Civil Eats about how the Trump administration cleared the way for chicken plants to increase their processing line speeds from 140 birds per minute to 175 birds per minute. The change deals a blow to workers and reverses the efforts of labor and animal welfare advocates, who fought to halt poultry line speed increases in 2014.
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In this paper, Sandeep Vaheesan and Nathan Schneider explore how cooperative ownership models can mitigate the effects of monopoly and oligopoly and advance the interests of consumers, workers, small business owners, and citizens.
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Read the remarks of Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn at the FTC's Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century hearings.
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In this issue, we criticize the FTC for targeting the little while letting the big play. And we wonder why the Brookings Institution is perpetuating the myth airline deregulation worked.
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The Open Markets Institute released the following statement today regarding its brief sent to the FCC urging the commission to block the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint
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How America’s anti-monopoly laws got turned against the little guy.
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The Open Markets Institute released the following statement today after the Federal Trade Commission cleared the $80 billion merger of Praxair, Inc. and Linde AG
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Open Markets Institute, Public Knowledge, Common Cause, the Writer's Guild of America and the Consumers Union has filed a public comment to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regarding the proposed merger of Sprint and T-Mobile.
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When Robert Pitofsky died at his home on October 6, at age 88, the antitrust community lost not only a courageous enforcer of the law but a serious scholar of history who understood that private monopoly is one of the greatest threats to American liberty and democracy.
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