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July 21, 2023

Sidney's Picks: Starbucks Fights Dirty War Against Baristas

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The Best of the Week’s News:

  • Starbucks is waging a dirty war on baristas. (NYT)
     
  • Hillman judge Ta-Nehisi Coates travels to South Carolina to support a teacher under fire for using his book on racism. (Essence)
     
  • How Jimmy Hoffa and the Teamsters made Las Vegas into an international gambling Mecca. (Baffler)
     
  • Accident at Mississippi poultry plant kills 16-year-old middle school schooler. (Guardian) 
     
  • Tesla directors vastly overpaid themselves and now they have to give $735 million back to the shareholders. (Reuters)
July 7, 2023

Sidney's Picks: Can UPS and the Teamsters Reach a Deal In Time?

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The Best of the Week’s News:

  • Down to the wire: Can UPS and the Teamsters strike a deal in time? (ITT) 
     
  • Farmer workers’ union sees major organizing gains in New York State, thanks to pro-worker law. (Guardian)
     
  • Why tech billionaires love RFK, Jr. (NYT)
     
  • California childcare workers win raises in new contract. (Sac Bee)
     
  • REI’s unionized workers accuse management of playing hardball. (NPR)
June 30, 2023

Sidney's Picks: Summer Strike Wave

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June 16, 2023

Labor Stands Up to AI

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June 2, 2023

Sidney's Picks: A Father, A Son, and a WGA Picket Line; Corporate Surveillance

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May 5, 2023

Sidney's Picks: McDonald's Made 10-Year-Olds Work Unpaid 'Til 2am

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April 28, 2023

Meatpackers See Organizing Opportunity at Tyson

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Best of the Week’s News:

  • Iowa meatpackers set their sights on organizing the notorious Tyson Foods. (In These Times)
     
  • Dirty Dozen: From Amazon and Tesla to the Twin Peaks “breastaurant” how America’s worst employers are endangering their workers. (National COSH)
     
  • National Labor Relations board accuses Starbucks of failing to negotiate fairly with baristas. (Bloomberg)
     
  • Why Biden’s pick for Secretary of Labor triggers the right wing. (NYMag)
     
  • Hollywood is gearing up for a likely writers’ strike. (NYT)
     
  • Ron DeSantis accused of torturing detainees at Guantanamo in the early 2000s. (Guardian)
April 21, 2023

Sidney's Picks: Unions for Wells Fargo and Ben & Jerry's?

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April 14, 2023

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

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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)
April 7, 2023

Sidney's Picks: Tennessee GOP Expels Black Democratic Lawmakers

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Best of the Week’s News:

  • Republicans expel two Black Democratic lawmakers from the Tennessee state House for “violating decorum” during a protest for gun control, but keep their white colleague who did the same thing. (Tennessean)
     
  • In France, you need 42 uninterrupted years of work to draw a full pension. French feminists say this rule unfairly penalizes women. (In These Times)
     
  • Jane LaTour, union activist and chronicler of women in the labor movement, dies at age 76. (NYT)
     
  • Residents at one of the nation’s most prestigious hospitals hope to votethis month on whether to form a union. (GBH)
     
  • U.S. economy adds 236,000 jobs, inching unemployment to a near 50-year low. (WaPo) 

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