August 13, 2021
Sidney's Picks: Extreme Heat & Secret Strategy

Photo credit:
“Heatwave,” by Shane Gorski, Creative Commons 2.0.
The Best of the Week’s News:
- Extreme heat compounds the miseries and dangers of migrant farm work. (Nation)
- New York Times lawyers accidentally send secret strategy memo to union. (Daily Beast)
- Caregivers deserve better. (NYT)
- Thanks to a wonky secret algorithm, sick people can be denied pain medication because they filled scripts for their sick dogs. (Wired)
- Labor takes aim at proposed Amazon-MGM merger. (Deadline)