The Best of the Week’s News: 

• Democracy grief is real. 
   
• Trump’s NLRB hands McDonald’s a big win.  
   
• Scooter rental workers in San Francisco vote to unionize.
   
• Defeated GOP governor of Kentucky goes on pardoning spree, freeing convicted killer whose brother threw him a campaign fundraiser. 
   
• Harvard may have violated labor law with email to hiring managers. 

The Best of the Week’s News: 

• Fancy quartz countertops are trashing workers’ lungs. 
   
• Google hires union-busting firm. 
   
• Postmates, arbitration, and class-action lawsuits
   
• “In Lockstep”: Creeping authoritarianism consumes the Wyoming Republican Party.
   
• CPJ asks: “Will Mike Pence defend press freedom?”
   

The Best of the Week’s News: 

• U.S. Ambassador assails ProPublica reporter over story about Mike Pence favoring Christian groups for foreign aid.
   
• Anti-choice grifter bilks city of Austin out of $1.6 million that should have gone to women’s health care. 
   
• Fundamentalist Christian legislators have seized Bolivia in a coup and unleashed a wave of anti-indigenous violence. 
   
• New Jersey hits Uber with $640 million tax bill for misclassifying employees as contractors. 

Attention, journalists, editors, and awards coordinators:

The Sidney Hillman Foundation is now accepting nominations for the 2020 Canadian Hillman Prize honouring excellence in investigative journalism!

The Canadian Hillman Prize celebrates print, digital and broadcast reporting that highlights injustice and leads to public policy change. 

Winning entries will be judged on the following criteria: 

• Significance of journalism in service of the common good
• Resourcefulness and courage in reporting 
• Skill in relating the story and impact of the coverage

Eligibility: Entries must be published or broadcast in 2019 and have been made widely available to a Canadian audience. Nominated material and a cover letter explaining how the entry meets the requirements can be submitted here. Deadline: January, 15, 2020. There is no fee to enter.

The Canadian Hillman Prize winner will be honoured at a ceremony in Toronto on March 26, 2020 and be awarded a certificate, $5,000 honorarium, and travel to New York City for the U.S awards ceremony in May.