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The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

Sidney's Picks: Meatpacking Safety, a Gig Worker Collective, and Biodiversity

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US Fish and Wildlife Service, Creative Commons. Juvenile Mariana fruit bat. 

The Best of the Week’s News

  • These 11 women organize nationwide strikes, but they’ve never met. (Next City)
     
  • The president of the Utility Workers of America says his members are terrified of catching COVID-19 on the job and asks OSHA for safety standards. (EE News)
     
  • Meatpacking plants ignore OSHA’s safety recommendations…because they can. (WCNC)
     
  • Coronavirus is killing the middle class. (New Yorker)
     
  • Flight: the antiviral super-power of bats. (Phys.Org)