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Sidney's Picks: iHeartMedia Workers Ratify First Union Contract

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The Best of the Week’s News

  • Audio storytellers at the iHeartMedia network vote 99% to ratify their first union contract. (Hollywood Reporter)
     
  • Why Starbucks and Workers United are on track to reach a contract. (NYT)
     
  • House “Slow Fashion Caucus” hopes to break our national addiction to disposable clothing. (WaPo)
     
  • California senate advances major tax on data mining to fund journalism jobs. (Matt Pearce)
     
  • New York City is bleeding information industry jobs. (The City)