Sidney's Picks: 9000 Higher-Ed Workers Strike at Rutgers | Hillman Foundation

Clear It With Sidney

The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

Sidney's Picks: 9000 Higher-Ed Workers Strike at Rutgers

Photo credit: 

The seal of Rutgers, Wikimedia commons

The Best of the Week’s News:

  • Why 9000 higher-ed workers are striking at Rutgers. (Mother Jones)
     
  • How Biden’s nominee to run the Department of Labor defended garment workers in the 1990s. (The 19th)
     
  • Democratic lawmakers consider new legislation to stop employers from writing off union-busting consultants on their taxes. (Bloomberg)
     
  • Florida bans abortion after 6 weeks, a move that will further increase risks to pregnant people. (NBC, WaPo)
     
  • Man “eaten alive” by bugs in his jail cell, according to his family. (WaPo)