Clear It With Sidney

The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

August 2023

August 25, 2023

Sidney's Picks: New York Workers Waiting on $79 Million in Stolen Wages

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The Best of the Week’s News:

New Yorkers are owed $79 million in stolen wages. (ProPublica)
Medieval Times slew union’s TikTok, broke the law (HuffPo)
Big pro-union rulings expected at NLRB as member’s term ends. (Portside)
Elon Musk’s dark power. (New Yorker)
Appalachians push for stronger protections against Black Lung. (In These Times)

August 18, 2023

Sidney's Picks: Cornell Will Drop Starbucks

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The Best of the Week’ News:

Cornell will drop Starbucks for violating labor laws, punishing pro-union Cornell students. (Cornell Daily Sun)
Government experts deem conditions in ICE detention “barbaric” and “negligent.” (NPR)
Right-wing provocateur James O’Keefe is under criminal investigation for allegedly looting Project Veritas. (Nation)
Trader Joe’s workers in Boston protest the firing of a vocally pro-union employee. (WGBH)
Why the writer’s strike matters. (WBUR)

August 4, 2023

Texas "Death Star" Law Threatens Big Blue Cities

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Death Star, Seth Miller, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

New “Death Star” law poised to strip Texas’s big blue cities of self-government. (Texas Observer)
Major League Baseball has paid a $185 million to settlement to unionized minor league players for violating minimum wage laws. (ESPN)
The victims of the Triangle Fire will finally get a memorial. (NYT)
Google’s parent company illegally fired contract workers for trying to organize, workers allege. (Fortune)
Strike Wave Summer: Workers turn up the heat (WaPo)