Clear It With Sidney

The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

September 2022

September 30, 2022

Sidney's Picks: Newsom Signs Farmworker Card-Check Bill

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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

California governor Gavin Newsom relents, signs card-check bill for farmworkers after big push from the UFW, the California Federation of Labor, and Joe Biden. (Cal Matters)
As union drive picks up steam, GEICO urges workers to call the police on union canvassers. (Labor Notes)
Veteran Nintendo game tester says she was fired for asking about a union. (Axios)
Digital sleuths make a breakthrough in the search for origins of the QAnon cult. (QOrigins)

September 23, 2022

Sidney's Picks: Philly's Black Labor History; Project Veritas Defeat

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Philadelphia, Matthew Colo, Wikimedia Commons.

The best of the Week’s News:

The Philadelphia Inquirer examines the roots of systemic racism through institutions founded in Philadelphia, including itself.
Dirty tricksters of Project Veritas lose in court, jury awards $120,000 to victims. (NYT)
Independent labor unions flourished because big unions weren’t meeting workers’ needs for organizing. (ITT)
Union officials say they will request a union vote for 3000 JetBlue flight service workers. (NBC)

September 19, 2022

Sidney's Picks: U.S. Open Workers Get Paid; Clean Water Restored to Jackson

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Jeremy Brooks, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

Clean water restored to Jackson, MS, but the fate of the water system remains uncertain. (MS Today)
U.S. Open workers finally get paid after Documented blows the whistle on wage theft. (DocumentedNY)
Biden averts rail strike by brokering a tentative last-minute deal, now it’s up to the rank-and-file to vote on it. (NYT, NP Bulletin, Trains)
Clearwater Confidential: How Scientology basically killed an affordable house project in Florida. (TB Times)
Over 5000 minor league baseball players voted to unionize after a lightening organizing campaign that took just 17 days. (Marketwatch)

September 9, 2022

Sidney’s Picks: U.S. Open Workers Allege Wage Theft; Big Lie Boosters Train MI Poll Workers

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Stan Weichers, Creative Commons.

Sidney’s Picks:

U.S. Open workers say their wages were stolen. (DocumentedNY)
How did Trump manage to take so many top secret documents from the White House? (LATimes)
MI GOP official/election conspiracist tells poll workers to be “undercover agents” and break the rules. (CNN)
Pregnant women in Alabama can be jailed for months to “protect” their fetuses from drugs. (AL.com)

September 2, 2022

Sidney's Picks: Sectoral Bargaining for California Fast Food Workers?

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Brian Wallace, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

CA lege passes law guaranteeing sectoral bargaining for fast food workers, but will Gov. Gavin Newsom sign it? (LAT, Vice, MoJo)
Labor official rejects Amazon’s bid to overturn Staten Island union victory. (NYT)
Will “fetal personhood” laws pave the way to a national abortion ban?
Trump’s hoard of top secret documents may have already damaged national security, expert says. (WaPo)