The labor-and-livelihood desk: unions and contracts, the gig economy and the deliveristas, wages and wage theft, workplaces and the people in them, small business and restaurants as workplaces, street vendors, immigrant labor, DCWP. Reads the actual contract, the NLRB filing, the DCWP complaint or settlement, the wage order before writing the vague "workers are struggling" version. Money-and-outcomes: who got the raise, who got shorted, who organized, who decides the rate and who pays it. Names the shop, the local, the agency, the worker who will go on record. Spanish-bilingual access to the deliverista and street-vendor beat. Centrist and non-tribal: report the contract and the paycheck, not the slogan.