October 15, 2021
Sidney's Picks: Dollar Store Union Vote, Rite Aid Heat, and Oathkeeper Cops
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October 8, 2021
Sidney's Picks: Kellogg's Workers Join Nationwide Strike Wave
October 1, 2021
Sidney's Picks: Dollar Store Implosion, Strike Wave Brewing, and Remembering Ed Vargas (1948-2021)
Sidney’s Picks:
- Pandemic crashes the Dollar Store business model. (NYT)
- Drivers could earn less than $5/hr under Massachusetts’ proposed gig worker law. (Yahoo)
- Tens of thousands of U.S. workers could be on strike within weeks. (Guardian)
- Climate change will cost insurers trillions, why are they still investing in fossil fuels? (Prospect)
- It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Ed Vargas. Ed joined the ILGWU as a worker in a shop in Local 99. From there he spent 55 years in various positions with the union and touched everyone who knew him. Most recently he worked as a Labor Liaison in the Governor’s office for the State of New York. Ed has been instrumental in keeping alive the legacy of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and is largely responsible for the annual commemoration and the permanent memorial in-progress. We will miss him tremendously.
September 24, 2021
Sidney's Picks: Hillman Foundation Welcomes New Judge, Jamelle Bouie
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September 17, 2021
Sidney's Picks: Nabisco Strike & Taxing the Rich
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September 10, 2021
Sidney's Picks: Hidden Police Brutality; Organizing Gains
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September 3, 2021
Sidney's Picks: The Death of Roe & The Nabisco Strike
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Best of the Week’s News:
- The Supreme Court kills Roe v. Wade quietly, on the shadow docket, by refusing to pause a Texas law that sics legal vigilantes on anyone who facilitates an abortion. (Rewire, NYT, NY Mag)
- Anti-vaxxers bearing zip ties confront high school principle, threatening to kidnap her. (WaPo)
- Organizing Starbucks workers in Buffalo call on CEO to uphold eight fair election principles, as they look ahead to organizing one store at a time. (NYT, In These Times)
- The national Nabisco strike heated up, with the company sending scabs to the Portland plant and workers halting rail deliveries. (NW Labor Press, Willamette Week)
- Unprecedented rains kill at least 13 people in Brooklyn and Queens, drowning most in their basement apartments. (The City)
August 27, 2021
Sidney's Picks: Nabisco Strike & Ivermectin Wars
The Best of the Week’s News:
- “We want our pension back”: Nabisco strike goes national, and strikers call for Oreo boycott. (NYT, WBUR)
- Starbucks workers in Buffalo to form the chain’s first union, and Collectivo becomes the largest unionized chain of coffee shops in the country. (Eater, ITT)
- Vaccination as Solidarity: Building trades union imposes a vaccination mandate on itself. (Prospect)
- Meet the right wing grifters behind the phony Covid cure that has humans overdosing on horse dewormer and sheep dip. (NBC)
August 20, 2021
Sidney's Picks: Nabisco Strike & A Sketchy Police Algorithm
The Best of the Week’s News:
- Workers at all US Nabisco bakeries are now on strike. Workers are fighting for middle class jobs and fair working hours. (Today, Vice, Stranger)
- Scattershot: How a secret police algorithm based on sketchy science and tweaked by human bias landed a man in jail for murder. (AP)
- Extremist GOP rep Lauren Boebert introduced legislation to help oil drillers, without disclosing that her husband made $1 million in energy consulting. (WaPo)
- Liar’s Remorse: She spread AZ election conspiracy theories, and it ruined her life. (AZ Audit)
- South Carolina politicians blow off millions in ethics fines. (Post & Courier)
August 13, 2021
Sidney's Picks: Extreme Heat & Secret Strategy
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