June 2021

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:

The Teamsters set their sights on unionizing Amazon. (Vice, Guardian)
How Amazon bullies reporters. (MoJo)
Trump caravan that tried to run a Biden campaign bus off the road is being sued under an Anti-Klan Act. (WaPo)
How the Game Stop hustle cost hedge funds $19 billion. (Prospect)
Unmarked graves thought to belong to 751 Indigenous children have been discovered at another residential school in Canada. (CBC)

June 18, 2021

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The Best of the Week’s News:

Rat traps and claptrap: How right wing groups are astroturfing a moral panic over Critical Race Theory (NBC)
Amazon tracks every minute of every worker’s day, but Amazon HR is chaos. (NYT)
The New Yorker Union reaches a deal with Condé Nast, averting a strike. (NYT)
The evidence-free rehabilitation of “lab leak theories” of COVD. (LA Times)
Rights not rites: A toxic work environment shouldn’t be a rite of passage
Canadian Hillman-winners Kenneth Jackson and Cullen Crozier of APTN win the prestigious Michener Award.

June 11, 2021

The Best of the Week’s News:

Secret IRS Files: Explosive details on how billionaires dodge taxes. (ProPublica)
Election workers bombarded with right-wing death threats. (Reuters)
Biden falls short on promise to protect meatpacking workers from Covid. (MoJo)
How to beat a labor shortage: Raise wages (WaPo)
Joe Manchin thinks it’s bipartisan to let states pass hyper-partisan voter suppression bills. (Atlantic)

June 4, 2021

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A memorial to the victims of the Kamloops residential school, GoToVan, Creative Commons 2.0.

The Best of the Week’s News:

Amazon workers are more likely to get hurt on the job. (WaPo)
Survivors call for action, but a lack of records stalls efforts to identify the Indigenous children found in 215 unmarked graves at a former Canadian residential school. (CBC)
A whistleblower warned that residential schools were death traps in 1922, but the Canadian government ignored him, so he became an investigative journalist, and the public ignored him, too. (Tyee)
Trump let meatpackers unsafely accelerate their lines during COVID, now Biden is telling them to slow down. (HuffPo)
More twists in the Sidney-winning investigation into Florida’s only lead smelter. (TB Times)