July 29, 2022
Sidney’s Picks: RIP David Moberg; Death Row Travesty
The Best of the Week’s News:
July 8, 2022
Sidney’s Picks: Georgia Organizing Wave Brewing?; Biden on Abortion
The Best of the Week’s News:
July 1, 2022
Sidney's Picks: Starbucks Union-Busting Tactics Exploit Post-Roe Desperation
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
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
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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May 27, 2022
Sidney's Picks: Flight Attendants Rise; Planned Parenthood Workers Seek Union
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.
May 13, 2022
Sidney's Picks: #Hillman22 Videos, Unions, & Democracy
The Best of the Week’s News:
- Check out videos of the 2022 Hillman Prize speeches!
- Unionized nurses are fighting hard, but terrible working conditions persist. (The Nation)
- What are unions doing to protect American democracy? (TNR)
- Diplomacy with a side of fraud: A Russian envoy dangled $500 billion fake dollars to entice Catalonian Separatists to break from Spain and become a cryptocurrency haven. (OCCRP)
- Trump lawyer John Eastman urged Pennsylvania’s GOP-controlled legislature to disenfranchise all PA voters by declaring the entire vote illegal and choosing Trump electors. (NYT)
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