September 29, 2023
Sidney's Picks: Meat Giants Under Investigation for Alleged Child Labor
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September 22, 2023
Sidney's Picks: Migrant Kids Work Deadly Jobs; UAW Strike Spreads
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September 15, 2023
Sidney's Picks: United Autoworkers On Strike
The Best of the Week’s News:
- Seeking better pay and benefits, the United Autoworkers take on the whole Big Three in historic strike. (AP, NYT)
- Last-minute deal raises CA fast food minimum wage to $20/hr and averts an industry-sponsored ballot measure to overturn pro-union law. (SacBee)
- California legislature may soon require restaurants to pay for mandatory food safety training, instead of workers. (NYT)
- Minnesota labor activists push for a code of conduct to protect construction workers. (Guardian)
- Wisconsin Republicans declare war on democracy. (Mother Jones)
- Families of Birmingham church bombing victims fear that Alabama’s law against teaching “divisive concepts” will erase history. (HuffPo)
September 8, 2023
Sidney's Picks: Summer Strike Wave Crests
The Best of the Week’s News:
- Summer strike wave: If autoworkers walk off the job, there will be more striking workers than anytime since 2018. (NYT)
- New Florida law targets public sector unions. (TB Times)
- NLRB deluged with complaints about Starbucks’s unfair labor practices. (Guardian)
- Two unions launch at Virginia Tech, one for grad students and one for campus workers. (Daily Cardinal)
- Personal care attendants reach tentative contract deal in Massachusetts. (WGBH)
September 1, 2023
Sidney's Picks: Happy Labor Day!
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August 25, 2023
Sidney's Picks: New York Workers Waiting on $79 Million in Stolen Wages
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August 18, 2023
Sidney's Picks: Cornell Will Drop Starbucks
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August 4, 2023
Texas "Death Star" Law Threatens Big Blue Cities
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July 31, 2023
Union-Busting Firm Exposed, Migrant Kids Exploited
The Best of the Week’s News:
- Inside the nation’s nerve center of union-busting. (HuffPo)
- Feds denounce surge in exploitation of migrant children. (NYT)
- McDonalds cited 388 times for child labor since May. (TCH)
- US Rep. Greg Caesar goes on “thirst strike” to push for water breaks for workers. (Texas Tribune)
- UPS and the Teamsters agree on a tentative 5-year contract, averting Aug 1 strike. (WaPo)
- Tesla lied about the range of its electric vehicles and cancelled the service appointments of buyers seeking to fix the problem. (Reuters)
- Right-wing news powers scammy “buy gold” industry. (WaPo)
July 21, 2023
Sidney's Picks: Starbucks Fights Dirty War Against Baristas
The Best of the Week’s News:
- Starbucks is waging a dirty war on baristas. (NYT)
- Hillman judge Ta-Nehisi Coates travels to South Carolina to support a teacher under fire for using his book on racism. (Essence)
- How Jimmy Hoffa and the Teamsters made Las Vegas into an international gambling Mecca. (Baffler)
- Accident at Mississippi poultry plant kills 16-year-old middle school schooler. (Guardian)
- Tesla directors vastly overpaid themselves and now they have to give $735 million back to the shareholders. (Reuters)
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