June 24, 2022
Sidney’s Picks: Starbucks Union Busting Complaint and Billionaires Behaving Badly
The Best of the Week’s News:
- Starbucks used “an array of illegal tactics” to thwart union drive, NLRB complaint alleges. (CBS)
- In forensic pathology, racist assumptions can lead to false allegations. (NYT)
- A billionaire and GOP mega-donor is gaming the tax system. (ProPublica)
- Gore-Tex heir funded a GOP spy op linked to Blackwater founder Erik Prince. (Mother Jones)
- Philadelphia Story: An armed society is a mass-shooting society. (Prospect)
June 17, 2022
Sidney's Picks: White Parents Run Black Teacher Out of Town; Starbucks Union Wins Grow
Best of the Week’s News:
- White parents ran a Black educator out of town, and pursued her to the next one, making her one of many teachers forced from their jobs over ideology. (WaPo, ProPublica)
- As Starbucks workers rack up their 150th election victory in the face of fierce opposition, Starbucks workers in Everett go on strike. (WTTW, Bloomberg, KOMONews)
- Amazon is running out of people to staff its warehouses, leaked memo shows. And no wonder… (Vox, WaPo)
- Eastman emails confirm, Ginni Thomas has a lot of explaining to do. (CNN, NYT)
June 10, 2022
What Do Workers Want?; What Does Boudin’s Recall Mean?
Photo credit:
The number of workers in U.S. Starbucks locations that have filed for union elections (11/21-5/22). Via WERN report.
The Best of the Week’s News:
- What do workers want? New report has answers. (WERN)
- California fast food workers strike for better working conditions. (LAT)
- Private equity, absentee landlords, and weak tenant protection laws make most of Georgia’s affordable housing barely habitable. (AJC)
- In Limbo at the Airway Inn: Jackson Heights residents displaced by fire wait to return home. (Curbed)
- San Francisco journalists debunk national media myth-making about the recall of progressive DA Chesa Boudin. (Defector; Mission Local)
- Sidney-winners making an impact: Detention facility that illegally jailed children will now have oversight. (ProPublica)
June 3, 2022
Sidney's Picks: Loss, Grief, and the Fight for Free Speech
The Best of the Week’s News:
May 27, 2022
Sidney's Picks: Flight Attendants Rise; Planned Parenthood Workers Seek Union
May 20, 2022
Sidney's Picks: Who Killed Overtime?
Photo credit:
North wall (detail), Diego Rivera, Detroit Industry murals, 1932-33, twenty-seven fresco panels at the Detroit Institute of Arts (photo: quickfix, CC BY-SA 2.0) via SmartHistory.
May 13, 2022
Sidney's Picks: #Hillman22 Videos, Unions, & Democracy
The Best of the Week’s News:
- Check out videos of the 2022 Hillman Prize speeches!
- Unionized nurses are fighting hard, but terrible working conditions persist. (The Nation)
- What are unions doing to protect American democracy? (TNR)
- Diplomacy with a side of fraud: A Russian envoy dangled $500 billion fake dollars to entice Catalonian Separatists to break from Spain and become a cryptocurrency haven. (OCCRP)
- Trump lawyer John Eastman urged Pennsylvania’s GOP-controlled legislature to disenfranchise all PA voters by declaring the entire vote illegal and choosing Trump electors. (NYT)
May 6, 2022
Check out the Photos of the 2022 Hillman Prizes!
Photo credit:
Hillman judge Jamelle Bouie with Hillman Prizewinners for Newspaper Journalism Daphne Duret and Gina Barton.
Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate
the 2022 Hillman Prizes and the Sol Stetin Award for Labor History!
More photos are on our website and videos will be up soon.
We had a wonderful night and we look forward to seeing you all next year!
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- The Sidney Hillman team
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April 29, 2022
Sidney’s Picks: Tickets for Teens; Intimidation for Starbucks Organizers
Best of the Week’s News:
- Cops are giving kids expensive tickets for minor infractions. (ProPublica/Chicago Tribune)
- Tampa clinic that failed to warn workers about elevated lead levels will close for good. The ongoing impact of a Sidney-winning series. (TB Times)
- How it became normal for public officials to target journalists. (WaPo)
- Organizing efforts at Starbucks are met with intimidation. (Teen Vogue)
April 22, 2022
Sidney's Picks: Congratulations Hillman Prize-winners & Happy Earth Day!
Best of the Week’s News:
- Meet the winners of the 2022 Hillman Prizes! The ceremony will be held in person in Manhattan on May 3.
- Over 200 Starbucks stores across the country have filed for union elections, despite intimidation—and relentless self-pity—from management. (Labor Notes, More Perfect Union)
- Apple Store workers in Atlanta file for the company’s first union election. (The Verge)
- EU urges work-from-home to conserve energy. (WaPo)
- Hillman judge Jamelle Bouie on why Democrats have to stop ignoring the culture wars and start winning them. (NYT)
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