May 2022

May 27, 2022

Sidney's Picks: Flight Attendants Rise; Planned Parenthood Workers Seek Union

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Best of the Week’s News:

Flight attendants rise with Sara Nelson. (New Yorker)
Did a retired federal agent have advance knowledge of the Buffalo massacre from the shooter’s posts on a private racist chat? (Buffalo News)
Midwest Planned Parenthood workers seek union. (ABC)
Leaked video shows Apple VP giving anti-union speech to Apple Store workers. (Motherboard)

May 20, 2022

Sidney's Picks: Who Killed Overtime?

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North wall (detail), Diego Rivera, Detroit Industry murals, 1932-33, twenty-seven fresco panels at the Detroit Institute of Arts (photo: quickfix, CC BY-SA 2.0) via SmartHistory.

Best of the Week’s News:

Who killed overtime pay? And how to bring it back. (Type Investigations/Capital & Main)
How New York’s non-union body shops exploit the recently incarcerated. (In These Times)
“There is no unorganizable workplace,” young Starbucks organizer speaks about building worker power. (Time Video)
What’s it like to strike? Labor elders share their stories. (NorthWest Labor Press)

May 13, 2022

Sidney's Picks: #Hillman22 Videos, Unions, & Democracy

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The Best of the Week’s News:

Check out videos of the 2022 Hillman Prize speeches!
Unionized nurses are fighting hard, but terrible working conditions persist. (The Nation)
What are unions doing to protect American democracy? (TNR)
Diplomacy with a side of fraud: A Russian envoy dangled $500 billion fake dollars to entice Catalonian Separatists to break from Spain and become a cryptocurrency haven. (OCCRP)
Trump lawyer John Eastman urged Pennsylvania’s GOP-controlled legislature to disenfranchise all PA voters by declaring the entire vote illegal and choosing Trump electors. (NYT)

May 6, 2022

Check out the Photos of the 2022 Hillman Prizes!

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Hillman judge Jamelle Bouie with Hillman Prizewinners for Newspaper Journalism Daphne Duret and Gina Barton.

Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate
the 2022 Hillman Prizes and the Sol Stetin Award for Labor History!

More photos are on our website and videos will be up soon.

We had a wonderful night and we look forward to seeing you all next year!

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