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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: MI Chipotle Workers Join Teamsters; Starbucks Broke the Law

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Thomas HawkCreative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

  • Chipotle workers in Michigan vote to join the Teamsters. (AP)
     
  • NLRB says Starbucks illegally denied raises to union members. (NYT)
     
  • Facebook brings the hammer down on the Proud Boys for trying to sneak back onto the social network. (Tech Crunch)
     
  • Mega-drought threatens the Colorado River, the lifeline of the West. (ProPublica)
     
  • Another challenge for abortion travel funds: Making sure clients take each pill in a state where it’s legal.  (WaPo)

Sidney's Picks: Starbucks Baristas to be Reinstated; “Equality” Boss Crashes to Earth

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mr hodgsonCreative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

Sidney’s Picks: Trump’s Terrible Secrets; Abortion Defense in KS

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Steve Rotman, Creative Commons.

The Beest of the Week’s News:

Sidney’s Picks: The Race to Pass a Fast Food Organizing Bill in CA; Kentucky Floods

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Jon BuntingCreative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

  • The race is on to pass a landmark bill to help fast food workers organize in California. (Politico, Voice of OC)
     
  • Starbucks is telling workers that trans health benefits are at risk if they unionize, a far-fetched scenario designed to chill organizing. (In These Times)
     
  • Senate Dems introduce legislation to protect the federal workforce after Trump vowed to reinstate Schedule F if reelected. (Government Executive)
     
  • Neighbors help neighbors in flood-ravaged Kentucky. (WKMS)
     
  • Florida governor Ron DeSantis takes the unprecedented step of suspending an elected Democratic prosecutor and installing a Fed Soc Republican in his place. (Bolts)

Sidney’s Picks: RIP David Moberg; Death Row Travesty

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Journalist David Moberg, by Eden, Janine, & JimCreative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

Sidney’s Picks: Georgia Organizing Wave Brewing?; Biden on Abortion

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Kevin TrotmanCreative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

Sidney's Picks: Starbucks Union-Busting Tactics Exploit Post-Roe Desperation

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Rick CameronCreative Commons.

Best of the Week’s News:

  • Starbucks is dangling an abortion travel benefit in front of organizing workers like a “cat toy.” (Bon Appétit)
     
  • Production workers on “The Simpsons” and “Family Guy“ unionize. (NPR)
     
  • Amazon Labor Union takes the fight to Phoenix. (People’s World)
     
  • How a public university is buckling to a conservative  crusade. (ProPublica)
     
  • More evidence that Trump planned to lead the mob to the Capitol on January 6. (WaPo)

Sidney’s Picks: Starbucks Union Busting Complaint and Billionaires Behaving Badly

The Best of the Week’s News:

  • Starbucks used “an array of illegal tactics” to thwart union drive, NLRB complaint alleges. (CBS)
     
  • In forensic pathology, racist assumptions can lead to false allegations. (NYT)
     
  • A billionaire and GOP mega-donor is gaming the tax system. (ProPublica)
     
  • Gore-Tex heir funded a GOP spy op linked to Blackwater founder Erik Prince. (Mother Jones)
     
  • Philadelphia Story: An armed society is a mass-shooting society. (Prospect)

Sidney's Picks: White Parents Run Black Teacher Out of Town; Starbucks Union Wins Grow

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Elliott StollerCreative Commons, Starbucks Workers Rally & March, 2022. 

Best of the Week’s News:

What Do Workers Want?; What Does Boudin’s Recall Mean?

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The number of workers in U.S. Starbucks locations that have filed for union elections (11/21-5/22). Via WERN report. 

The Best of the Week’s News:

  • What do workers want? New report has answers. (WERN)
     
  • California fast food workers strike for better working conditions. (LAT)
     
  • Private equity, absentee landlords, and weak tenant protection laws make most of Georgia’s affordable housing barely habitable. (AJC)
     
  • In Limbo at the Airway Inn: Jackson Heights residents displaced by fire wait to return home. (Curbed)
     
  • San Francisco journalists debunk national media myth-making about the recall of progressive DA Chesa Boudin. (Defector; Mission Local)
     
  • Sidney-winners making an impact: Detention facility that illegally jailed children will now have oversight. (ProPublica)

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