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The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

Sidney's Picks: Union-Busting Goldmine Merger & Starbucks Walkout

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Bullion Vault, Creative Commons.

Best of the Week’s News:

  • When two giant gold mines merged, miners paid the price. (High Country News, Hillman Grantee) 
     
  • Workers at the nation’s only unionized Starbucks walked off the job this week over Covid safety concerns. (Buffalo News) 
     
  • Canadian officials reach a $31.5 billion deal to compensate Indigenous kids put in foster care unnecessarily. (WaPo)
     
  • Comics creators at Image Comics vote to certify their historic union. (Gizmodo)
     
  • National Labor Relations Board rules that the New York Times illegally interfered with union organizing by tech workers. (Reuters)