December 2021

December 17, 2021

Sidney's Picks: Kellogg's Deal? & NYC's first Just Cause Settlement

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The Best of the Week’s News:

Kellogg’s workers say they’ve reached a tentative deal that could get them back to work before the end of December. (Reuters)
Text messages before the tornado show Amazon management as callous and disorganized. (Bloomberg)
New York City’s worker protection agency announces its first “just cause” settlement for workers who were fired from a Subway franchise for being unable to work a single shift. (Brooklyn Paper)
Investigative journalists foil anti-vaxx assassination plot in Saxony. (BBC)
Wayfair: How a QAnon lie about child sex trafficking and furniture ended up hurting real kids (WaPo)

December 10, 2021

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Illustration: Thomas Hawks, Creative Commons.

Best of the Week’s News:

Starbucks workers in Buffalo vote to form a union, which is another good sign for the labor movement. (AP, Vox)
An inside look at fast food organizing in New York City. (Civil Eats)
Kellogg’s plans to permanently replace striking workers, but these redditors have other ideas. (CBS. Quartz)
A beloved small town teacher gets fired for teaching his students that white privilege is real. (WaPo)

December 3, 2021

The Best of the Week’s News:

Warm feelings: Workers at three Canada Goose coat factories vote to unionize with Workers United (NYT)
A deadly lead smelter promised to clean up its act, but it keeps on polluting. (Tampa Bay Times)
Child laborers in Brazil risk their lives to pick açaí berries.
National Labor Relations Board says Amazon interfered in Alabama union election, orders a re-vote. (Reuters)
Hackers are spamming business’s receipt printers with anti-work and workplace democracy messages. (Vice)