January 2022

January 28, 2022

Sidney's Picks: Abuse on the Line; Amazon's Alleged Threats

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Ant and Carrie Coleman, Creative Commons, non-commercial, unaltered.

The Best of the Week’s News:

Customer service reps endure terrible working conditions including harassment and abuse by customers. (ProPublica)
Amazon illegally threatened and surveilled workers in New York City ahead of a union election, NLRB prosecutors allege. (Al Jazeera/Bloomberg, Vice, WaPo)
Nothing sacred: These apps reserve the right to sell your prayers. (Buzzfeed)
Tucker Carlson and Glenn Greenwald drive online harassment of female journalists, according to new report. (Brookings)

January 21, 2022

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Truthout, Creative Commons.

Best of the Week’s News:

A judge accused of illegally jailing Black children has announced her retirement in the wake of a Sidney-winning investigation by WPLN News and ProPublica. (WPLN)
Why newsrooms are unionizing non-stop (Nieman Reports)
How antisemitic conspiracy theories contributed to a hostage crisis at a Texas synagogue. (Conversation)
The hospital staffing crisis is caused by greed and poor working conditions, nurses say. (NYT)
Workwear maker Carhartt says it’s keeping its vaccine mandate despite the Supreme Court striking down the vaccinate or test requirement for large employers, but Starbucks is scrapping theirs. (WaPo, NPR)

January 14, 2022

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Art Institute of Chicago by Wally Gobetz, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

Three quarters of Kroger workers are food insecure and 14% live in poverty, according to a new report. (In These Times)
Self-closing door law didn’t save victims of Bronx fire. (The City)
Good for labor, good for art: More museum workers are unionizing, including workers at the renowned Art Institute of Chicago. (ArtForum, Fox32)
The federal courts drop survey question about workplace misconduct because too many staffers said they’d witnessed workplace misconduct. (WaPo)
Here’s every Starbucks store that’s holding a union vote (Fast Company)

January 7, 2022

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Bullion Vault, Creative Commons.

Best of the Week’s News:

When two giant gold mines merged, miners paid the price. (High Country News, Hillman Grantee)
Workers at the nation’s only unionized Starbucks walked off the job this week over Covid safety concerns. (Buffalo News)
Canadian officials reach a $31.5 billion deal to compensate Indigenous kids put in foster care unnecessarily. (WaPo)
Comics creators at Image Comics vote to certify their historic union. (Gizmodo)
National Labor Relations Board rules that the New York Times illegally interfered with union organizing by tech workers. (Reuters)