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August 5, 2022

Sidney’s Picks: The Race to Pass a Fast Food Organizing Bill in CA; Kentucky Floods

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Jon Bunting, Creative Commons.

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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Journalist David Moberg, by Eden, Janine, & Jim, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

Remembering David Moberg, labor journalist, 1943-2022. (Nation)
Alabama man remains on death row despite strong evidence of innocence. (WaPo)
The U.S. labor movement is on the rise, despite strong opposition from corporations. (Guardian)
How local journalists proved a 10-year-old abortion patient was raped. And how the girl’s doctor has been targeted by anti-choice zealots. (WaPo, NYT)
“Nobody would choose this”: A Maine family lives out of their van on the Turnpike (Press Herald)

July 8, 2022

Sidney’s Picks: Georgia Organizing Wave Brewing?; Biden on Abortion

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Kevin Trotman, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

Starbucks union victories could be the beginning of an organizing wave in Georgia. (AJC)
A new law could increase fines for u nsafe construction sites, if Gov. Hochul signs it. (NYT)
Planned Parenthood workers vote to unionize. (WWLP)
Highland Park and an Illegitimate Supreme Court (New Yorker)
More things Biden could be doing to support abortion rights. (WaPo, Slate)

July 1, 2022

Sidney's Picks: Starbucks Union-Busting Tactics Exploit Post-Roe Desperation

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Rick Cameron, Creative Commons.

Best of the Week’s News:

Starbucks is dangling an abortion travel benefit in front of organizing workers like a “cat toy.” (Bon Appétit)
Production workers on “The Simpsons” and “Family Guy“ unionize. (NPR)
Amazon Labor Union takes the fight to Phoenix. (People’s World)
How a public university is buckling to a conservative crusade. (ProPublica)
More evidence that Trump planned to lead the mob to the Capitol on January 6. (WaPo)

June 24, 2022

Sidney’s Picks: Starbucks Union Busting Complaint and Billionaires Behaving Badly

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Elliott Stoller, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

Starbucks used “an array of illegal tactics” to thwart union drive, NLRB complaint alleges. (CBS)
In forensic pathology, racist assumptions can lead to false allegations. (NYT)
A billionaire and GOP mega-donor is gaming the tax system. (ProPublica)
Gore-Tex heir funded a GOP spy op linked to Blackwater founder Erik Prince. (Mother Jones)
Philadelphia Story: An armed society is a mass-shooting society. (Prospect)

June 17, 2022

Sidney's Picks: White Parents Run Black Teacher Out of Town; Starbucks Union Wins Grow

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Elliott Stoller, Creative Commons, Starbucks Workers Rally & March, 2022.

Best of the Week’s News:

White parents ran a Black educator out of town, and pursued her to the next one, making her one of many teachers forced from their jobs over ideology. (WaPo, ProPublica)
As Starbucks workers rack up their 150th election victory in the face of fierce opposition, Starbucks workers in Everett go on strike. (WTTW, Bloomberg, KOMONews)
Amazon is running out of people to staff its warehouses, leaked memo shows. And no wonder… (Vox, WaPo)
Eastman emails confirm, Ginni Thomas has a lot of explaining to do. (CNN, NYT)

June 10, 2022

What Do Workers Want?; What Does Boudin’s Recall Mean?

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The number of workers in U.S. Starbucks locations that have filed for union elections (11/21-5/22). Via WERN report.

The Best of the Week’s News:

What do workers want? New report has answers. (WERN)
California fast food workers strike for better working conditions. (LAT)
Private equity, absentee landlords, and weak tenant protection laws make most of Georgia’s affordable housing barely habitable. (AJC)
In Limbo at the Airway Inn: Jackson Heights residents displaced by fire wait to return home. (Curbed)
San Francisco journalists debunk national media myth-making about the recall of progressive DA Chesa Boudin. (Defector; Mission Local)
Sidney-winners making an impact: Detention facility that illegally jailed children will now have oversight. (ProPublica)

June 3, 2022

Sidney's Picks: Loss, Grief, and the Fight for Free Speech

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x1klima, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

The staff of Uvalde’s daily paper report and grieve. (New Yorker)
Johnny Depp wins the right wing’s war on free speech. (Salon)
China is harassing female journalists of Chinese descent with a network of bots. (Axios)
Ford announces 6000 new union jobs, building electric vehicles. (CNBC)
The Men Lost to 20 Bruckner Blvd: NYC’s deadliest construction site (NYT)

May 27, 2022

Sidney's Picks: Flight Attendants Rise; Planned Parenthood Workers Seek Union

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Delta News Hub, Creative Commons.

Best of the Week’s News:

Flight attendants rise with Sara Nelson. (New Yorker)
Did a retired federal agent have advance knowledge of the Buffalo massacre from the shooter’s posts on a private racist chat? (Buffalo News)
Midwest Planned Parenthood workers seek union. (ABC)
Leaked video shows Apple VP giving anti-union speech to Apple Store workers. (Motherboard)

May 20, 2022

Sidney's Picks: Who Killed Overtime?

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North wall (detail), Diego Rivera, Detroit Industry murals, 1932-33, twenty-seven fresco panels at the Detroit Institute of Arts (photo: quickfix, CC BY-SA 2.0) via SmartHistory.

Best of the Week’s News:

Who killed overtime pay? And how to bring it back. (Type Investigations/Capital & Main)
How New York’s non-union body shops exploit the recently incarcerated. (In These Times)
“There is no unorganizable workplace,” young Starbucks organizer speaks about building worker power. (Time Video)
What’s it like to strike? Labor elders share their stories. (NorthWest Labor Press)

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Clear It with Sidney

Sidney’s Picks: The Race to Pass a Fast Food Organizing Bill in CA; Kentucky Floods

Sidney’s Picks: RIP David Moberg; Death Row Travesty

Sidney’s Picks: Georgia Organizing Wave Brewing?; Biden on Abortion

Sidney's Picks: Starbucks Union-Busting Tactics Exploit Post-Roe Desperation

Sidney’s Picks: Starbucks Union Busting Complaint and Billionaires Behaving Badly

Sidney's Picks: White Parents Run Black Teacher Out of Town; Starbucks Union Wins Grow

What Do Workers Want?; What Does Boudin’s Recall Mean?

Sidney's Picks: Loss, Grief, and the Fight for Free Speech

Sidney's Picks: Flight Attendants Rise; Planned Parenthood Workers Seek Union

Sidney's Picks: Who Killed Overtime?

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Sidney’s Picks: The Race to Pass a Fast Food Organizing Bill in CA; Kentucky Floods

Sidney’s Picks: RIP David Moberg; Death Row Travesty

Sidney’s Picks: Georgia Organizing Wave Brewing?; Biden on Abortion

Sidney's Picks: Starbucks Union-Busting Tactics Exploit Post-Roe Desperation

Sidney’s Picks: Starbucks Union Busting Complaint and Billionaires Behaving Badly

Sidney's Picks: White Parents Run Black Teacher Out of Town; Starbucks Union Wins Grow

What Do Workers Want?; What Does Boudin’s Recall Mean?

Sidney's Picks: Loss, Grief, and the Fight for Free Speech

Sidney's Picks: Flight Attendants Rise; Planned Parenthood Workers Seek Union

Sidney's Picks: Who Killed Overtime?

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