September 2021

September 24, 2021

Sidney's Picks: Hillman Foundation Welcomes New Judge, Jamelle Bouie

The Best of the Week’s News:

A warm welcome to Jamelle Bouie, the newest member of the Hillman Foundation’s distinguished panel of judges!
NY City Council quietly passes sweeping package to protect delivery workers. (Verge)
Nabisco workers back on the job after 5-week strike, with hard-won gains and lessons learned. (ITT, HuffPost, Willamette Week)
Prop 22 supporters appeal judge’s ruling that anti-worker law is unconstitutional. (Bloomberg Law)
Specious AZ “audit” limps over the finish line, conceding that Biden won Arizona by more than the official margin. (AZ Central)

September 17, 2021

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A Nabisco picket line. Wikimedia Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

Striking Nabisco workers reached a tentative deal with management after a week of rising tensions and allegations of anti-union violence. (EaterPDX, KATU, WWeek)
Will Biden’s plan finally tax the rich and boost local news? (NPR, MarketWatch, Forbes)
Broken promises and surging workplace deaths in North Carolina. (The Assembly)
Courts in Wisconsin are forcing women to co-parent with their abusers. (ProPublica)

September 10, 2021

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The Best of the Week’s News:

The Louisiana State Police hid a pattern of brutal racialized violence. (AP)
The crisis facing rural schools. (NYT)
The Justice Department files complaint against Texas in a bid to stop its new bounty hunter abortion ban. (Nation)
The national Nabisco strike intensifies as the company makes legal threatsand workers outflank scabs. ( Mundo Obrero, WWeek)
Two new Buffalo Starbucks join effort to start a union and spooked execsstream in from Seattle. (Buffalo News, Vice)

September 3, 2021

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Creative Commons.

Best of the Week’s News:

The Supreme Court kills Roe v. Wade quietly, on the shadow docket, by refusing to pause a Texas law that sics legal vigilantes on anyone who facilitates an abortion. (Rewire, NYT, NY Mag)
Anti-vaxxers bearing zip ties confront high school principle, threatening to kidnap her. (WaPo)
Organizing Starbucks workers in Buffalo call on CEO to uphold eight fair election principles, as they look ahead to organizing one store at a time. (NYT, In These Times)
The national Nabisco strike heated up, with the company sending scabs to the Portland plant and workers halting rail deliveries. (NW Labor Press, Willamette Week)
Unprecedented rains kill at least 13 people in Brooklyn and Queens, drowning most in their basement apartments. (The City)