March 8, 2024
Sidney's Picks: Inside a Brooklyn Sweatshop
The Best of the Week’s News
March 8, 2024
Sidney's Picks: Starbucks Stops Fighting Union
The Best of the Week’s News
- More than half of workers at the Vanz Mercedes-Benz plant in AL have signed cards to join the UAW in the first successful union drive at the plant in its 27-year history.
- Amazon paid $1.9 million to compensate migrant workers after International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and its partners exposed Amazon’s exploitative labor practices in Saudi Arabia. (Guardian, ICIJ)
- In a major breakthrough, Starbucks and Workers United agree to move forward together to create a framework for contract talks. (Prospect, Starbucks Press, NYT)
- Proposed law in Arizona would make it legal for property owners to kill migrants on their land. (NBC)
February 23, 2024
Starbucks Asked To Disclose $240M Spent on Union-Busting
The Best of the Week’s News
- Union-backed shareholders ask SEC to make Starbucks level with investiors about the $240 million the company has spent on union-busting. (Reuters)
- Labor Department says Fayette Janitorial LLC illegally hired 24 children to clean two slaughter houses, including the head-splitters and bandsaws. (NBC)
- How to save the collapsing U.S. media. (Jacobin)
- A formerly unhoused journalist reports on the spiraling housing crisis from the tents, cars, motels, and couches of America. (NYT)
- Alexei Navalny’s mother says the Russian government is blackmailing her, refusing to releae his body unless she agrees to a secret burial. (Axios)
- How part-time schedules wreak havoc on workers’ lives. (NYT)
February 16, 2024
Sidney's Picks: Putin Critic Alexei Navalny Dies in Prison As Election Nears
- Anti-corruption crusader and Putin critic Alexei Navalny dies in prison, depriving Russia of key voice as election nears. (WaPo)
- Concertina wire installed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott is maiming migrants on the border. (HuffPo)
- A trove of documents sheds light on the legal malfeasance behind the January 6 insurrection. (TPM)
- New law takes heavy toll on Florida’s labor unions. (WLRN)
- Labor names housing affordability as its number one issue. (Guardian)
February 9, 2024
Sidney's Picks: Dartmouth Hoops Players Cleared to Unionize
The Best of the Week’s News
February 2, 2024
Sidney's Picks: Golden Arches Made with Prison Labor
The Best of the Week’s News
• McDonald’s, Walmart and Cargill use food from hidden prison labor network. (AP)
• Biden cracks down on extremists in the West Bank attacking Palestinians and peace activists. (WaPo)
• This teacher was sanctioned for teaching Between the World And Me, but she’s trying again. (WaPo)
• SpaceX and Trader Joes launch major legal attack on labor. (Guardian)
• The UAW saved a Stellantis plant, but these workers are still fighting to get back to work. (In These Times)
• Killing the Messenger: An inside look at the death of a media company (NY Mag)
January 26, 2024
Sidney's Picks: Texas Defies Supreme Court, Dares POTUS to Respond
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January 19, 2024
Sidney's Picks: Koch-Backed Supreme Court Challenge Imperils Environment
The Best of the Week’s News
January 12, 2024
Sidney's Picks: Crackdown on "Ghost Tags" After Sidney-Winning Exposé
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Illustration by Martin Schapiro, courtesy of Streetsblog.
The best of the week’s news
- Licenses yanked from dozens of car dealerships after Sidney-winning exposé of illegal “ghost tags.” (Streetsblog)
- National Labor Relations Board blocks bid to dissolve Starbucks union at Mall of America. (MN Reformer)
- Elmore Nickleberry, one of the last living participants in the Memphis sanitation strike of 1968, dies at age 92. (NYT)
- The “legitimate shell company” that Oversight Chair James Comer initially denied owning was shut down twice. (Daily Beast)
- Big Oil drops eight figures on ads to derail action on the climate crisis. (Guardian)
January 5, 2024
Sidney's Picks: Starbucks Faces Mounting Pressure
The Best of the Week’s News
- Organizers keep the pressure on Starbucks in 2024. (NYT)
- Hillman Prize-winner Julie K. Brown discusses the newly unsealed trove of Jeffrey Epstein papers. (NPR)
- Elon Musk illegally fired eight SpaceX workers for criticizing him, NLRB alleges. (Fortune)
- Companies like Trader Joes use endless delays to wear down workers seeking their first union contracts. (Guardian)
- Nerds Unite: Fantasy role-playing staffers vote to join Workers United. (NYT)
- Donald Trump received at least $7.8 million from 20 foreign governments during his term in office, House Dems report. (MSNBC)
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