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Clear It With Sidney

The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

Clear It with Sidney

Sidney's Picks: Getting the Trucks Out of Ottawa

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North-east edge of Confederation Square in Ottawa, Canada during the Freedom Convoy 2022 protests, Jan 31, Wikimedia Commons.

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Sidney's Picks: Starbucks Struggle & Trucker Deficit

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Used with the kind permission of Starbucks worker Adrienne Danielle

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Sidney's Picks: The Hardest Working Man in China; Starbucks Workers Organizing All Over

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Sidney's Picks: Abuse on the Line; Amazon's Alleged Threats

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Ant and Carrie Coleman, Creative Commons, non-commercial, unaltered. 

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  • Customer service reps endure terrible working conditions including harassment and abuse by customers. (ProPublica)
     
  • Amazon illegally threatened and surveilled workers in New York City ahead of a union election, NLRB prosecutors allege. (Al Jazeera/Bloomberg, Vice, WaPo)
     
  • Nothing sacred: These apps reserve the right to sell your prayers. (Buzzfeed)
     
  • Tucker Carlson and Glenn Greenwald drive online harassment of female journalists, according to new report. (Brookings) 

Sidney's Picks: The End of the Line for a Child-Jailing Judge

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Truthout, Creative Commons.

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Sidney's Picks: Kroger Workers Going Hungry; Art Institute of Chicago Votes to Unionize

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Art Institute of Chicago by Wally Gobetz, Creative Commons.

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Sidney's Picks: Union-Busting Goldmine Merger & Starbucks Walkout

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Bullion Vault, Creative Commons.

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  • When two giant gold mines merged, miners paid the price. (High Country News, Hillman Grantee) 
     
  • Workers at the nation’s only unionized Starbucks walked off the job this week over Covid safety concerns. (Buffalo News) 
     
  • Canadian officials reach a $31.5 billion deal to compensate Indigenous kids put in foster care unnecessarily. (WaPo)
     
  • Comics creators at Image Comics vote to certify their historic union. (Gizmodo)
     
  • National Labor Relations Board rules that the New York Times illegally interfered with union organizing by tech workers. (Reuters)

Sidney's Picks: Kellogg's Deal? & NYC's first Just Cause Settlement

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Mike Mozart, Creative Commons

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  • Kellogg’s workers say they’ve reached a tentative deal that could get them back to work before the end of December. (Reuters)
     
  • Text messages before the tornado show Amazon management as callous and disorganized. (Bloomberg) 
     
  • New York City’s worker protection agency announces its first “just cause” settlement for workers who were fired from a Subway franchise for being unable to work a single shift. (Brooklyn Paper)
     
  • Investigative journalists foil anti-vaxx assassination plot in Saxony. (BBC)
     
  • Wayfair: How a QAnon lie about child sex trafficking and furniture ended up hurting real kids (WaPo)

Sidney's Picks: Starbucks Union Victory in Buffalo

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Illustration: Thomas Hawks, Creative Commons. 

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Sidney's Picks: Canada Goose Union Win & Deadly Smelter Keeps Smelting

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