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Meatpackers See Organizing Opportunity at Tyson

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Tom Benson, Creative Commons.

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)