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August 27, 2021

Sidney's Picks: Nabisco Strike & Ivermectin Wars

The Best of the Week’s News:

  • “We want our pension back”: Nabisco strike goes national, and strikers call for Oreo boycott. (NYT, WBUR)
     
  • Starbucks workers in Buffalo to form the chain’s first union, and Collectivo becomes the largest unionized chain of coffee shops in the country. (Eater, ITT) 
     
  • Vaccination as Solidarity: Building trades union imposes a vaccination mandate on itself. (Prospect)
     
  • Meet the right wing grifters behind the phony Covid cure that has humans overdosing on horse dewormer and sheep dip. (NBC) 
August 20, 2021

Sidney's Picks: Nabisco Strike & A Sketchy Police Algorithm

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An Oreo, Nabisco’s signature product, Mihoda, Creative Commons 2.0.​

The Best of the Week’s News:

  • Workers at all US Nabisco bakeries are now on strike. Workers are fighting for middle class jobs and fair working hours. (Today, Vice, Stranger)
     
  • Scattershot: How a secret police algorithm based on sketchy science and tweaked by human bias landed a man in jail for murder. (AP)
     
  • Extremist GOP rep Lauren Boebert introduced legislation to help oil drillers, without disclosing that her husband made $1 million in energy consulting. (WaPo) 
     
  • Liar’s Remorse: She spread AZ election conspiracy theories, and it ruined her life. (AZ Audit) 
     
  • South Carolina politicians blow off millions in ethics fines. (Post & Courier)
August 13, 2021

Sidney's Picks: Extreme Heat & Secret Strategy

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“Heatwave,” by Shane Gorski, Creative Commons 2.0. 

The Best of the Week’s News:

  • Extreme heat compounds the miseries and dangers of migrant farm work. (Nation)
     
  • New York Times lawyers accidentally send secret strategy memo to union. (Daily Beast)
     
  • Caregivers deserve better. (NYT)
     
  • Thanks to a wonky secret algorithm, sick people can be denied pain medication because they filled scripts for their sick dogs. (Wired)
     
  • Labor takes aim at proposed  Amazon-MGM merger. (Deadline)
August 6, 2021

Sidney's Picks Remembering AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka (1949-2021)

Best of the Week’s News:

July 30, 2021

Sidney's Picks: Infrastructure & Remembering Robert Moses

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Robert P. Moses, courtesy of the Algebra Project, Creative Commons. 

The Best of the Week’s News:

July 23, 2021

Sidney's Picks: Looming Plant Shutdown; Unvaccinated Covid Casualties

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Illustration of masks, Yoriko Yoshida, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

July 16, 2021

Sidney's Picks: Burger King Rebellion, Minimum Wage Woes

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Liberty Leading the People by Eugene Delacroix. 

The Best of the Week’s News:

  • “We all quit,” Nebraska Burger King employees vote with their feet over unsafe working conditions. (WREG)
     
  • Full-time minimum wage workers can’t afford rent anywhere in the US. (CNBC)
     
  • How to get labor law reform past the filibuster. (Washington Monthly)
     
  • Liberté, Egalité, Britney! The investigative reporters excavating the Spears conservatorship fiasco. (ProPublica)
     
  • Hillman Prize-winner Jamelle Bouie describes the two fronts in the GOP war on voting. (NYT)
July 9, 2021

Sidney's Picks: Fast Food Strike, Team Owner Tax Dodge, and Bangladesh Factory Blaze

The Best of the Week’s News:

July 2, 2021

Sidney's Picks: Lead Reckoning; Amazon Revolt; Voting Rights Catastrophe

The Best of the Week’s News:

  • EPA confirms findings of Sidney-winning exposé of Florida’s only lead smelter, consequences expected (Tampa Bay Times)
     
  • Portland Amazon delivery companies enter open revolt against the retailer. (Vice)
     
  • Australian scientist who was at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the fall of 2019 speaks out. (Bloomberg)
     
  • Poll: Americans want less crime, but not more cops. (WaPo)
     
  • Supreme Court guts the Voting Rights Act. Adam Serwer explains John Roberts’ hostility to the VRA.  (NPR, MoJo)
June 25, 2021

Sidney's Picks: Teamsters vs. Amazon; More Unmarked Graves

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The Saskatchewan residential school where over 700 unmarked graves were located. 

The Best of the Week’s News:

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