July 5, 2024
Sidney's Picks: Biden Announces New Heat Protection Rules for Workers
- Biden announces new heat protections for workers, takes climate change deniers to task. (NYT)
- How the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling sets the stage for dictatorship. (Vox)
- Reporter finds passion for journalism behind bars, exposes neglectful prison health system. (NYT)
- “Some folks need killing!”: NC GOP gubernatorial candidate calls for political violence as “a matter of necessity.” (TNR)
- Iran condemns labor leader to death. (VOA)
June 28, 2024
Sidney's Picks: iHeartMedia Workers Ratify First Union Contract
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)
June 21, 2024
Sidney's Picks: Sherrod Brown's Senate Opponent Allegedly Stole Wages
The Best of the Week’s News
- Sherrod Brown’s opponent shredded overtime pay records at his car dealership and settled more than a dozen wage theft cases. (MoJo)
- Southern teachers unionize. (Prospect)
- Amazon Labor Union (ALU) members vote to join the Teamsters. (Verge)
- Why is the Supreme Court taking so long to decide Trump’s immunity case? (NYT)
- The labor beat goes on. (Progressive)
- Honoring Linda Tirado, a fighter for the working class. (Prospect)
June 14, 2024
Sidney's Picks: Supreme Court Rules Against Labor Board
The Best of the Week’s News
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Supreme Court makes it harder for NLRB to reinstate workers fired for organizing. (NYT)
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Dollar Trees are as common as Starbucks, and the retailer is under pressureto improve its terrible safety record. (VA Center for Investigative Journalism)
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CVS is making generic drugs for children with contaminated water, incorrect doses of medication, and other serious defects. (Bloomberg)
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Dark money news sites are outpacing local newspapers in swing states. (Axios)
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Hundreds of police officers sexually abused kids and many dodged prison time. (WaPo)
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A co-owner of the Calgary Flames paid to subject indigenous children to pseudoscientific brain wave experiments that were supposed to help them see angels. (CBC)
June 7, 2024
Sidney's Picks: New WaPo CEO Tried to Squelch Coverage of His Phone-Hacking Scandal
The Best of the Week’s News
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The Washington Post’s new CEO tried to squelch coverage of his links to a phone-hacking scandal. (SF Gate, NYT, NPR)
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Nine witnesses in Trump’s criminal cases have received major benefits from his campaign and businesses, raising fears of witness tampering. (ProPublica)
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Decaying, cash-strapped MTA has no lifeline after Gov. Kathy Hochul unexpectedly kills congestion pricing. (Curbed)
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400 incarcerated New Yorkers speak out about the reality of prison labor as Legal Aid Society advances legislation to ban forced labor behind bars. (NY Mag)
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Can state Supreme Courts safeguard the rights we have, or even recognize new ones? (New Yorker)
May 31, 2024
Sidney's Picks: Labor Department Sues Hyundai Over Child Labor
The Best of the Week’s News
May 24, 2024
Sidney's Picks: Ride Share Tax-Dodging & Disappearing Police Discipline Records
The Best of the Week’s News
- How Uber and Lyft dodge millions in taxes. (Slate)
- NYPD discipline records keep disappearing from a public database. (ProPublica)
- Trump helped his employees evade security cameras as they moved classified documents he’d hoarded at Mar-a-Lago, newly unsealed motion alleges. (WaPo)
- Aurora Almendral talks about how she reported her Hillman Prize-winning story on the exploitation of nurses during the pandemic. (Type Investigations)
- Psychedelics are proving their worth as medicine, but access remains elusive for many. (Nation)
- African AI workers send open letter to Biden asking him to free them from “modern day slavery.” (Wired)
May 17, 2024
Sidney's Picks: Billionaires Sue to Nix California's Farm Worker Protections
The Best of the Week’s News
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These pomegranate barons are suing to roll back California’s protections for agricultural workers. (LAT)
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Lawsuit alleges that KFC, McDonald’s and other major brands violated the Ku Klux Klan Act with forced prison labor. (Bloomberg)
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Was British nurse’s conviction for the alleged murder of seven babies based on scapegoating and junk statistics? (New Yorker)
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She ran for school board to fight Critical Race Theory in the classroom, she found there was none. (ProPublica)
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How extremist settlers hijacked Israel’s democracy. (NYT)
May 10, 2024
Sidney's Picks: Will Mercedes Benz be the UAW's Next Big Win?
The Best of the Week’s News
May 3, 2024
Tyson Foods Dumped Tons of Toxic Chemicals; Congrats to Hillman Prize-winners!
The Best of the Week’s News
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Federal judges are accepting undisclosed luxury junkets. (NPR)
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Nail salon workers face reproductive health crisis. (DocumentedNY)
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Labor Department announces new rule to protect farm workers from wage theft and human trafficking. (Nursery Mgt)
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Tyson Foods dumped tons of toxic chemicals—including cyanide—into U.S. waterways. (Guardian)
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They joined the national police Explorers youth program for mentorship, only to suffer grooming and sexual abuse. (Marshall Project)
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Congratulations to all the winners of the 2024 Hillman Prizes, we look forward to meeting and honoring you in New York next week!
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