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Sidney's Picks: McDonald's Organizers Cheer NLRB Ruling

  • In a major victory for fast food organizers, the National Labor Relations Board has determined that the McDonald’s corporation is a joint employer of the workers at its franchises.
  • A year after the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh, the worst industrial disaster in history, Sidney-winner Josh Eidelson looks back and asks what has changed.
  • Forensic scientists work to identify the bodies of migrants who died attempting to cross the Mexico/U.S. border.

 

[Photo credit: Wander Mule, Creative Commons.]