September 30, 2022
Sidney's Picks: Newsom Signs Farmworker Card-Check Bill
The Best of the Week’s News:
- California governor Gavin Newsom relents, signs card-check bill for farmworkers after big push from the UFW, the California Federation of Labor, and Joe Biden. (Cal Matters)
- As union drive picks up steam, GEICO urges workers to call the police on union canvassers. (Labor Notes)
- Veteran Nintendo game tester says she was fired for asking about a union. (Axios)
- Digital sleuths make a breakthrough in the search for origins of the QAnon cult. (QOrigins)
September 23, 2022
Sidney's Picks: Philly's Black Labor History; Project Veritas Defeat
The best of the Week’s News:
- The Philadelphia Inquirer examines the roots of systemic racism through institutions founded in Philadelphia, including itself.
- Dirty tricksters of Project Veritas lose in court, jury awards $120,000 to victims. (NYT)
- Independent labor unions flourished because big unions weren’t meeting workers’ needs for organizing. (ITT)
- Union officials say they will request a union vote for 3000 JetBlue flight service workers. (NBC)
September 19, 2022
Sidney's Picks: U.S. Open Workers Get Paid; Clean Water Restored to Jackson
The Best of the Week’s News:
- Clean water restored to Jackson, MS, but the fate of the water system remains uncertain. (MS Today)
- U.S. Open workers finally get paid after Documented blows the whistle on wage theft. (DocumentedNY)
- Biden averts rail strike by brokering a tentative last-minute deal, now it’s up to the rank-and-file to vote on it. (NYT, NP Bulletin, Trains)
- Clearwater Confidential: How Scientology basically killed an affordable house project in Florida. (TB Times)
- Over 5000 minor league baseball players voted to unionize after a lightening organizing campaign that took just 17 days. (Marketwatch)
September 9, 2022
Sidney’s Picks: U.S. Open Workers Allege Wage Theft; Big Lie Boosters Train MI Poll Workers
Sidney’s Picks:
- U.S. Open workers say their wages were stolen. (DocumentedNY)
- How did Trump manage to take so many top secret documents from the White House? (LATimes)
- MI GOP official/election conspiracist tells poll workers to be “undercover agents” and break the rules. (CNN)
- Pregnant women in Alabama can be jailed for months to “protect” their fetuses from drugs. (AL.com)
September 2, 2022
Sidney's Picks: Sectoral Bargaining for California Fast Food Workers?
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August 26, 2022
Sidney's Picks: MI Chipotle Workers Join Teamsters; Starbucks Broke the Law
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August 19, 2022
Sidney's Picks: Starbucks Baristas to be Reinstated; “Equality” Boss Crashes to Earth
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August 12, 2022
Sidney’s Picks: Trump’s Terrible Secrets; Abortion Defense in KS
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August 5, 2022
Sidney’s Picks: The Race to Pass a Fast Food Organizing Bill in CA; Kentucky Floods
The Best of the Week’s News:
- The race is on to pass a landmark bill to help fast food workers organize in California. (Politico, Voice of OC)
- Starbucks is telling workers that trans health benefits are at risk if they unionize, a far-fetched scenario designed to chill organizing. (In These Times)
- Senate Dems introduce legislation to protect the federal workforce after Trump vowed to reinstate Schedule F if reelected. (Government Executive)
- Neighbors help neighbors in flood-ravaged Kentucky. (WKMS)
- Florida governor Ron DeSantis takes the unprecedented step of suspending an elected Democratic prosecutor and installing a Fed Soc Republican in his place. (Bolts)
July 29, 2022
Sidney’s Picks: RIP David Moberg; Death Row Travesty
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