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Clear It With Sidney

The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

Sidney's Picks: Labor and Wisconsin

  • Rich Yeselson takes a hard look at what Scott Walker’s recall victory means for the labor movement.
  • Jin Zhao of AlterNet on New York workers’ battle for paid sick leave.
  • Unemployed jobseekers were bussed to London to work for free at the Queen’s diamond jubliee celebration and told to camp under London Bridge the night before, the Guardian reports.
  • Food trucks are all the rage in New York City, but a broken permitting system is driving vendors onto the black market, Ilya Marritz reports for WNYC.

[Photo credit: Wander Mule, Creative Commons.]