January 2023 | Hillman Foundation

Clear It With Sidney

The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

January 2023

Post-Gazette Bargained in Bad Faith; South Korea Smears Unions

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Can Pac SwireCreative Commons, illustration. 

Best of the Week’s News:

  • Judge rules that the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette bargained in bad faith with the union, broke National Labor Relations Act. (WTAE)
     
  • Nearly all of NYC’s 300,000 unionized employees are working under expired contracts and frustration is mounting. (The City)
     
  • HarperCollins and its union head to mediation to resolve their differences after weeks on strike. (Publishers Weekly)
     
  • Amazon workers strike in Britain for the first time, with workers walking off the job in Coventry. (Jacobin)
     
  • South Korea’s government smears labor unions as fronts for communist spies from North Korea. (Al Jazeera)

Sidney's Picks: Senate Judiciary Committee Blocks LaSalle

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Courtesy of New York State Senate, under Creative Commons.

Best of the Week’s News:

  • Hector LaSalle’s bid to become New York’s top jurist blocked in the State Senate after pressure from labor and pro-choice groups. (NYMag)
     
  • The restaurant industry makes new hires pay for “safety trainings” and spends their money fighting minimum wage increases. (NYT)
     
  • Kroger union files lawsuit alleging rampant wage theft. (News59)
     
  • “That was torture”: Kenyan laborers paid $2/hr (or less) to screen out horrific content for the ChatGPT bot. (Time)
     
  • The teacher shortage in MS is so bad that high school students are teaching themselves geometry. (WaPo)

Sidney's Picks: New York Nurses Win; Twitter Fires Cleaning Staff

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Courtest of the NYSNA

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Sidney's Picks: Hochul's Pick for Top Judge Slammed as Anti-Labor

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New York State Court of Appeals, Wadester16Creative Commons

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