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Clear It With Sidney

The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

Clear It with Sidney

Sidney's Picks: News Industry Struggles as Traffic from Big Tech Plummets

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Russell DaviesCreative Commons

The Best of the Week’s News:

  • News industry frets as clicks from Big Tech plummet. (NYT)
     
  • Elon Musk yanks the NYT’s verification badge as misinformation on Israel-Hamas war spreads unchecked. (WaPo/NYT)
     
  • New California law raises minimum wage for health care workers to $25 an hour. (CalMatters)
     
  • Skyrocketing housing costs force professionals to live in their cars. (NYT)
     
  • Meet Leonard Leo, the man behind the right wing overhaul of the judicial system. (ProPublica/WNYC
     
  • A $20,000 lectern and a girls’ trip to Paris spark an investigation into Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders. (40/29 News)

Sidney's Picks: Triangle Fire Memorial Dedicated; UAW Expands Strike

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Triangle Factory Fire memorial, Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition

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Sidney's Picks: NYC's Right to Shelter is Under Fire

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  • New York City tries to dodge its 40-year-old obligation to house migrants. (NYT)
     
  • NLRB steps up to protect undocumented workers. (Documented)
     
  • Trump allegedly blabbed critical submarine secrets to a Mar-a-Lago guest who told…basically everyone. (ABC)
     
  • What did the writers win in the 5-month WGA strike? (Prospect)
     
  • Repetitive injuries take hidden toll on autoworkers. (Nation)
     
  • Deliveristas’ wage hike on hold as tech giants win stay of new law. (The City)

Sidney's Picks: Meat Giants Under Investigation for Alleged Child Labor

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Thomas Hawk, Creative Commons. 

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Sidney's Picks: Migrant Kids Work Deadly Jobs; UAW Strike Spreads

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Sidney's Picks: United Autoworkers On Strike

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Joe BruskyCreative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

  • Seeking better pay and benefits, the United Autoworkers take on the whole Big Three in historic strike. (AP, NYT)
     
  • Last-minute deal raises CA fast food minimum wage to $20/hr and averts an industry-sponsored ballot measure to overturn pro-union law. (SacBee)
     
  • California legislature may soon require restaurants to pay for mandatory food safety training, instead of workers. (NYT)
     
  • Minnesota labor activists push for a code of conduct to protect construction workers. (Guardian)
     
  • Wisconsin Republicans declare war on democracy. (Mother Jones)
     
  • Families of Birmingham church bombing victims fear that Alabama’s law against teaching “divisive concepts” will erase history. (HuffPo)

Sidney's Picks: Summer Strike Wave Crests

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Ken DouglasCreative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

  • Summer strike wave: If autoworkers walk off the job, there will be more striking workers than anytime since 2018. (NYT)
     
  • New Florida law targets public sector unions. (TB Times)
     
  • NLRB deluged with complaints about Starbucks’s unfair labor practices. (Guardian)
     
  • Two unions launch at Virginia Tech, one for grad students and one for campus workers. (Daily Cardinal)
     
  • Personal care attendants reach tentative contract deal in Massachusetts. (WGBH)

Sidney's Picks: Happy Labor Day!

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Sidney's Picks: New York Workers Waiting on $79 Million in Stolen Wages

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John PerryCreative Commons.

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Sidney's Picks: Cornell Will Drop Starbucks

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Tom FassbenderCreative Commons.

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