July 17, 2020
Sidney's Picks: Unmarked Feds Snatch Protesters; Goya's Dirty Labor History
- Federal agents without badges are grabbing protesters off the street in Portland and throwing them in vans. (WaPo)
- With Goya Foods in the news, let’s take a look back at their dirty campaign to deny their majority-Latino workforce a union contract. (American Prospect
- How Trump and his cronies are exploiting the pandemic to bust unions. (New Yorker)
- MO Death Trip: Missouri will spend $15 million in federal COVID relief funds on enticing tourists to the state. (KS Star)
- NLRB seeks an injunction to force a Nevada gold mining conglomerate to recognize the union it says it illegally disregarded. (NV Independent)
- Mask use is widespread in the US, but compliance varies dramatically by region. (NYT)