February 5, 2021
Sidney's Picks: Amazon Union Vote & Death on the Line
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January 29, 2021
Sidney's Picks: Labor, the NLRB, and Space Lasers
The Best of the Week’s News:
- With appointments and executive orders, Biden signals that organized labor is a high priority in his administration. (LA Times)
- What is the National Labor Relations Board and how does it affect the labor movement? (Teen Vogue)
- Google workers in 13 countries announce the formation of Alpha Global, a global union alliance. (The Verge)
- GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene floated an antisemitic conspiracy theory that a space laser might have caused a deadly California wildfire. (Media Matters)
January 15, 2021
Sidney's Picks: Uber Drivers, Rioters, and Nurses
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January 8, 2021
Sidney's Picks: An Attack Based on Lies, A Mystery Solved, and a Union for Google
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December 18, 2020
Sidney's Picks: Racial Dialysis and Breathing on a Jet Plane
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December 11, 2020
Sidney’s Picks: My COVID Vaccine; NYC Delivery Drivers Organize; Terror in Spokane
The Best of the Week’s News:
- When will I get my COVID vaccine: An epidemiologist and veteran activist explains. (The Nation)
- NYC delivery workers organize for a better life. DoorDash drivers would have to work for two days to buy a single share in the company. (The City)
- A man with a political manifesto and an alleged pipe bomb threatened to blow up Teamster headquarters in Spokane, he has also been charged with setting a fire that nearly consumed the office of the Spokane County Democrats. (Fox 28)
- The GOP’s poison pill to sabotage COVID relief. (American Prospect)
December 4, 2020
Unifor's Triumph; Google's Surveillance
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November 20, 2020
Sidney's Picks: Betting on COVID and Immigrant Teens Working Nights
The Best of the Week’s News:
- Tyson Foods managers bet on how many of their workers would test positive for COVID, a wrongful death lawsuit alleges. (IA Capital Dispatch)
- Why a $15 minimum wage triumphed in Florida, but Joe Biden did not. (In These Times)
- The hidden lives of immigrant teens working nights during COVID (ProPublica Illinois)
- Rape, beatings, low wages: The palm oil used by beloved US beauty brands is produced under horrific conditions. (AP)
November 17, 2020
2021 Hillman Prizes: Call For Entries on Now!
Attention journalists, editors, and awards coordinators, the Call for Entries for the 2021 Hillman Prizes in Journalism is on now!
The Hillman Prizes celebrate investigative reporting and deep storytelling that highlights social or economic injustice and contributes to meaningful public policy change.
Prizes are awarded in the following categories:
- Book
- Newspaper Reporting
- Magazine Reporting
- Broadcast Journalism
- Web Journalism
- Opinion & Analysis Journalism
Hillman Prize winners will be awarded a $5,000 honorarium and a certificate at an event to be held in New York City on May 4th (or celebrated virtually, depending on the status of the coronavirus pandemic).
Deadline for applications is January 30, 2021. There is no fee to enter.
Click here for full details, and to enter online.
November 13, 2020
Sidney's Picks: Cop Sex Abuse Coverup, True Pay Equity, and Prop 22
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