July 11, 2014
#Sidney's Picks: Monsanto Linked to Mystery Disease
The Best of the Week’s News
- Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup may be the cause of a mystery kidney disease that’s killing sugar cane workers.
- Nominate a woman under 35 for the Kate Mullany Courageous Young Worker Award by Aug 28. The $1000 prize recognizes someone who has championed rights at work against great opposition.
- Four years after the refinery explosion that killed seven workers in Washington State, no one has been held accountable.
- Doctors in Southern California allegedly put hardware-store grade screws into the spines of patients as part of a multi-million dollar fraud scheme.
[Photo credit: Wander Mule, Creative Commons.]