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The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

Sidney's Picks: Deregulation & Amazon Vote-a-Rama

The Best of thte Week’s News:

  • Electricity deregulation cost Texans $28 billion extra over 20 years. (WSJ)
     
  • The Senate Parliamentarian rules that a $15 minimum wage can’t be part of the COVID relief package. (Rolling Stone)
     
  • U.S. labor law is broken, but what would an Amazon union drive look like under Canadian labor law? (Nation, Jacobin)
     
  • Amazon-owned Twitch bans Amazon’s union-busting ads. (Vice)
     
  • Hillman board member Danny Glover joined voting Amazon workers  in Alabama. (Portside)
     
  • Amazon accused of meddling with mysterious mailbox and McDonald’s surveilled organizing workers. (Vice)