Clear It With Sidney

The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

January 2021

January 29, 2021

Sidney's Picks: Labor, the NLRB, and Space Lasers

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John Schneider, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

With appointments and executive orders, Biden signals that organized labor is a high priority in his administration. (LA Times)
What is the National Labor Relations Board and how does it affect the labor movement? (Teen Vogue)
Google workers in 13 countries announce the formation of Alpha Global, a global union alliance. (The Verge)
GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene floated an antisemitic conspiracy theory that a space laser might have caused a deadly California wildfire. (Media Matters)

January 15, 2021

Sidney's Picks: Uber Drivers, Rioters, and Nurses

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Rain Rabbit, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

Uber Drivers and labor unions sue to overturn California’s Prop 22. (CNN, LA Times)
Employees at the Canada Goose coat factory in Winnipeg say working conditions are for the birds. (Vice)
The legendary Chicago Reporter is fighting for survival. (The Nation)
Most House Republicans voted to finish what the Capitol rioters started. (Atlantic)
New York’s Filipino nurses brace for the next wave of COVID. (NYT)

January 8, 2021

Sidney's Picks: An Attack Based on Lies, A Mystery Solved, and a Union for Google

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Neil Schofeld, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

The assault on the U.S. Capitol was an insurrection fueled by lies and planned in plain sight. (Dissent, In These Times, ProPublica)
Now it can be told: How the New York Times really got the Pentagon Papers. (NYT)
Everything we know about Google’s audacious new union. (The Verge)
“Lazy, Money-Oriented, Single Mother”: Notorious union-busting consultants surveil workers. (VICE)
In a final gift to big business, Trump’s labor department prepares to further erode the rights of gig workers. (Input)