August 2021

August 27, 2021

Sidney's Picks: Nabisco Strike & Ivermectin Wars

The Best of the Week’s News:

“We want our pension back”: Nabisco strike goes national, and strikers call for Oreo boycott. (NYT, WBUR)
Starbucks workers in Buffalo to form the chain’s first union, and Collectivo becomes the largest unionized chain of coffee shops in the country. (Eater, ITT)
Vaccination as Solidarity: Building trades union imposes a vaccination mandate on itself. (Prospect)
Meet the right wing grifters behind the phony Covid cure that has humans overdosing on horse dewormer and sheep dip. (NBC)

August 20, 2021

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An Oreo, Nabisco’s signature product, Mihoda, Creative Commons 2.0.

The Best of the Week’s News:

Workers at all US Nabisco bakeries are now on strike. Workers are fighting for middle class jobs and fair working hours. (Today, Vice, Stranger)
Scattershot: How a secret police algorithm based on sketchy science and tweaked by human bias landed a man in jail for murder. (AP)
Extremist GOP rep Lauren Boebert introduced legislation to help oil drillers, without disclosing that her husband made $1 million in energy consulting. (WaPo)
Liar’s Remorse: She spread AZ election conspiracy theories, and it ruined her life. (AZ Audit)
South Carolina politicians blow off millions in ethics fines. (Post & Courier)

August 13, 2021

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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)

August 6, 2021

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