The Best of the Week’s News:

• Google illegally fired and surveilled workers trying organize, the NLRB alleges. (VICE)
   
• As COVID radicalizes workers, ambulance attendants say the pandemic is pushing them to the brink. (TNR, WaPo) 
   
• How Maine lawmen run amok. (Bangor Daily News) 
   
• Unifor leader Jerry Dias triumphs, convinces GM to stay in Oshawa, Ontario. (Financial Post)

Attention journalists, editors, and awards coordinators, the Call for Entries for the 2021 Hillman Prizes in Journalism is on now!

The Hillman Prizes celebrate investigative reporting and deep storytelling that highlights social or economic injustice and contributes to meaningful public policy change. 

Prizes are awarded in the following categories:

• Book 
• Newspaper Reporting
• Magazine Reporting 
• Broadcast Journalism 
• Web Journalism 
• Opinion & Analysis Journalism 

Hillman Prize winners will be awarded a $5,000 honorarium and a certificate at an event to be held in New York City on May 4^th (or celebrated virtually, depending on the status of the coronavirus pandemic).

Deadline for applications is January 30, 2021. There is no fee to enter. 

Click here for full details, and to enter online. 

Attention, journalists, editors, and awards coordinators:

The Sidney Hillman Foundation is now accepting nominations for the 2021 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 2020 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, 2021. There is no fee to enter.

The winner will receive a $5000 honorarium and a certificate at an event to be held in Toronto (or celebrated virtually) on March 25, 2021. The winner will also receive travel to New York City to attend the U.S. Hillman Prize Ceremony (if it will be held person). 

The Best of the Week’s News:

• The Trump campaign makes an all-out push to disenfranchise Pennsylvanians as election-defenders call out a potential bid to steal the state’s electoral votes. (NYT, New Yorker)
   
• Republican voter intimidation is already being felt at the polls. (In These Times)
   
• Video surfaces of Philadelphia police beating the driver of an SUV with a child in the back seat. (Philly Inquirer)
   
• Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross was secretly on the board of a Chinese-US joint venture while heading up trade policy. (Foreign Policy)
   
• In Duterte’s Philippines, fake news meets red-baiting and turns lethal. (Rest of the World)
   
• Millions of people still haven’t received their stimulus checks. (ProPublica)
   
• The Trump administration has rolled back over 125 environmental safeguards including opening “America’s Amazon” to timber sales to China. (WaPo, Outside)