July 7, 2023
Sidney's Picks: Can UPS and the Teamsters Reach a Deal In Time?
The Best of the Week’s News:
- Down to the wire: Can UPS and the Teamsters strike a deal in time? (ITT)
- Farmer workers’ union sees major organizing gains in New York State, thanks to pro-worker law. (Guardian)
- Why tech billionaires love RFK, Jr. (NYT)
- California childcare workers win raises in new contract. (Sac Bee)
- REI’s unionized workers accuse management of playing hardball. (NPR)
June 30, 2023
Sidney's Picks: Summer Strike Wave
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June 16, 2023
Labor Stands Up to AI
June 2, 2023
Sidney's Picks: A Father, A Son, and a WGA Picket Line; Corporate Surveillance
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May 5, 2023
Sidney's Picks: McDonald's Made 10-Year-Olds Work Unpaid 'Til 2am
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April 28, 2023
Meatpackers See Organizing Opportunity at Tyson
Best of the Week’s News:
- Iowa meatpackers set their sights on organizing the notorious Tyson Foods. (In These Times)
- Dirty Dozen: From Amazon and Tesla to the Twin Peaks “breastaurant” how America’s worst employers are endangering their workers. (National COSH)
- National Labor Relations board accuses Starbucks of failing to negotiate fairly with baristas. (Bloomberg)
- Why Biden’s pick for Secretary of Labor triggers the right wing. (NYMag)
- Hollywood is gearing up for a likely writers’ strike. (NYT)
- Ron DeSantis accused of torturing detainees at Guantanamo in the early 2000s. (Guardian)
April 21, 2023
Sidney's Picks: Unions for Wells Fargo and Ben & Jerry's?
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April 14, 2023
Sidney's Picks: 9000 Higher-Ed Workers Strike at Rutgers
The Best of the Week’s News:
- Why 9000 higher-ed workers are striking at Rutgers. (Mother Jones)
- How Biden’s nominee to run the Department of Labor defended garment workers in the 1990s. (The 19th)
- Democratic lawmakers consider new legislation to stop employers from writing off union-busting consultants on their taxes. (Bloomberg)
- Florida bans abortion after 6 weeks, a move that will further increase risks to pregnant people. (NBC, WaPo)
- Man “eaten alive” by bugs in his jail cell, according to his family. (WaPo)
April 7, 2023
Sidney's Picks: Tennessee GOP Expels Black Democratic Lawmakers
Best of the Week’s News:
- Republicans expel two Black Democratic lawmakers from the Tennessee state House for “violating decorum” during a protest for gun control, but keep their white colleague who did the same thing. (Tennessean)
- In France, you need 42 uninterrupted years of work to draw a full pension. French feminists say this rule unfairly penalizes women. (In These Times)
- Jane LaTour, union activist and chronicler of women in the labor movement, dies at age 76. (NYT)
- Residents at one of the nation’s most prestigious hospitals hope to votethis month on whether to form a union. (GBH)
- U.S. economy adds 236,000 jobs, inching unemployment to a near 50-year low. (WaPo)
April 4, 2023
Check out the Photos from the Canadian Hillman Prize Ceremony!
Photo credit:
Canadian Hillman Prize-winners Steve Buist (L) and Rachel Mendleson (R) with Canadian Hillman judge Garvia Bailey.
Check out the photos from last week’s 13th annual Canadian Hillman Prize ceremony in Toronto, where we honored outstanding investigative journalism for Canadians, made new friends, and reunited with old ones.
Meet the winners and read their work here.
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