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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: Two Unions Reach Sick Leave Deals with Railroad

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Sidney's Picks: Union-Busters Get Nervous; Fake Clinics Get Nasty

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Gambling with Death, Gilliam, 1888. Library of Congress

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Post-Gazette Bargained in Bad Faith; South Korea Smears Unions

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Can Pac SwireCreative Commons, illustration. 

Best of the Week’s News:

  • Judge rules that the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette bargained in bad faith with the union, broke National Labor Relations Act. (WTAE)
     
  • Nearly all of NYC’s 300,000 unionized employees are working under expired contracts and frustration is mounting. (The City)
     
  • HarperCollins and its union head to mediation to resolve their differences after weeks on strike. (Publishers Weekly)
     
  • Amazon workers strike in Britain for the first time, with workers walking off the job in Coventry. (Jacobin)
     
  • South Korea’s government smears labor unions as fronts for communist spies from North Korea. (Al Jazeera)

Sidney's Picks: Senate Judiciary Committee Blocks LaSalle

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Courtesy of New York State Senate, under Creative Commons.

Best of the Week’s News:

  • Hector LaSalle’s bid to become New York’s top jurist blocked in the State Senate after pressure from labor and pro-choice groups. (NYMag)
     
  • The restaurant industry makes new hires pay for “safety trainings” and spends their money fighting minimum wage increases. (NYT)
     
  • Kroger union files lawsuit alleging rampant wage theft. (News59)
     
  • “That was torture”: Kenyan laborers paid $2/hr (or less) to screen out horrific content for the ChatGPT bot. (Time)
     
  • The teacher shortage in MS is so bad that high school students are teaching themselves geometry. (WaPo)

Sidney's Picks: New York Nurses Win; Twitter Fires Cleaning Staff

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Sidney's Picks: Hochul's Pick for Top Judge Slammed as Anti-Labor

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Sidney's Picks: Labor Board Gets Tough on Employers Who Break the Law

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Wikimedia Commons.

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  • The National Labor Relations Board stiffens penalties for employers who break the law. (WaPo)
     
  • Starbucks workers plan three-day walkout starting Friday, the second major strike in a month. (NPR)
     
  • Twitter’s former head of trust and safety was forced to flee his home after Elon Musk falsely accused him of being a pedophile. Critical journalists kicked off the platform without notice. (CNN)
     
  • Solar and wind power poised to become the largest source of energy by 2025. (LA Times)
     
  • Mapping Mar-a-Lago: A potential playground for spies (NYT)

Sidney's Picks: NYT Staff Complete Historic 24-Hour Strike

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The Best of the Week’s News:

  • Staffers at the New York Times staged a historic 24-hour strike, seeking a fair share of the paper’s rising profits. (WaPo)
     
  • Reporters, editors, and columnists were joined on the NYT picket line by IT specialists, security guards, sales coordinators, and freelancers. (The City, The Nation)
     
  • Peter Baker and Micheal Shear of the NYT’s DC bureau scabbedyesterday’s strike. (NYMag) 
     
  • Students occupied a building at the New School  in support of a job action that has become the longest adjunct strike in U.S. history. (Teen Vogue)
     
  • A Miami judge has thrown out another voter fraud case brought by governor Ron DeSantis’ “election police.” (Miami Herald)

Sidney's Picks: Who Made Your World Cup Jersey?

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The Best of the Week’s News:

  • Garment workers in Myanmar make World Cup jerseys for less than $3/day. (NYT)
     
  • Why the railroads won’t give sick days: Understaffing (NY Mag)
     
  • How Germany remembers the Holocaust by Hillman Prize-winner Clint Smith. (Atlantic)
     
  • A new Hershel Walker ex comes forward to allege that he attacked her in a rage and blamed it on his multiple personality disorder. (Daily Beast)
     
  • French man, known as Mr. T, wins legal right not to be “fun” at work. (Insider)

2023 Hillman Prize Call for Entries: On Now Through Jan 30

The Sidney Hillman Foundation is now accepting entries for the 2023 Hillman Prizes honoring excellence in investigative journalism and commentary in service of the common good.

The Hillman Prizes celebrate investigative reporting and deep storytelling that exposes social and economic injustice and leads to meaningful public policy change. 

The 2023 Hillman Prizes will be awarded in the following categories:

  • Book (nonfiction)
  • Newspaper Reporting (print/online)
  • Magazine Reporting (print/online)
  • Broadcast Journalism (story/series/documentary, with at least 20 minutes in total package length)
  • Web Journalism (story, series or multimedia project, which appeared online and may include text, photo, video, graphics); and
  • Opinion and Analysis Journalism (commentary and analysis in any medium)

Eligibility: 

Entries must have been published/broadcast in 2022 and have been made widely available to a U.S audience. Your material and a cover letter explaining how the entry meets the requirements can be submitted hereThere is no fee to enter

Hillman Prize winners will be awarded a $5,000 honorarium and a certificate at an event to be held in person, in New York City, on May 9, 2023. 

Judges: 

The Hillman Prize judges are Jamelle Bouie, columnist, The New York Times; Maria Carrillo, former enterprise editor Tampa Bay Times/Houston Chronicle; Ta-Nehisi Coates, bestselling author and former national correspondent, The Atlantic; Alix Freedman, global editor, Ethics and Standards, Reuters; Harold Meyerson, editor at large, The American Prospect; and Katrina vanden Heuvel, editorial director and publisher, The Nation.

“The Hillman Prizes go to watchdog journalists who bring us the stories of the marginalized and voiceless and hold power to account,” said Alexandra Lescaze, executive director of the Sidney Hillman Foundation. “Investigative journalism is a cornerstone of a well-functioning democracy and has the potential to initiate the public policy changes that move societies forward. The Hillman Prize is an acknowledgment and a token of gratitude for their essential work.”

Since 1950, the Sidney Hillman Foundation has honored journalists, writers and public figures who pursue investigative journalism and public policy for the common good. Sidney Hillman was the founding president of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, a predecessor of Workers United, SEIU. An architect of the New Deal, Hillman fought to build a vibrant union movement extending beyond the shop floor to all aspects of working people’s lives.
 

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