June 2024

June 28, 2024

Sidney's Picks: iHeartMedia Workers Ratify First Union Contract

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The Best of the Week’s News

Audio storytellers at the iHeartMedia network vote 99% to ratify their first union contract. (Hollywood Reporter)
Why Starbucks and Workers United are on track to reach a contract. (NYT)
House “Slow Fashion Caucus” hopes to break our national addiction to disposable clothing. (WaPo)
California senate advances major tax on data mining to fund journalism jobs. (Matt Pearce)
New York City is bleeding information industry jobs. (The City)

June 21, 2024

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The Best of the Week’s News

Sherrod Brown’s opponent shredded overtime pay records at his car dealership and settled more than a dozen wage theft cases. (MoJo)
Southern teachers unionize. (Prospect)
Amazon Labor Union (ALU) members vote to join the Teamsters. (Verge)
Why is the Supreme Court taking so long to decide Trump’s immunity case? (NYT)
The labor beat goes on. (Progressive)
Honoring Linda Tirado, a fighter for the working class. (Prospect)

June 14, 2024

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The Best of the Week’s News

Supreme Court makes it harder for NLRB to reinstate workers fired for organizing. (NYT)
Dollar Trees are as common as Starbucks, and the retailer is under pressureto improve its terrible safety record. (VA Center for Investigative Journalism)

CVS is making generic drugs for children with contaminated water, incorrect doses of medication, and other serious defects. (Bloomberg)
Dark money news sites are outpacing local newspapers in swing states. (Axios)
Hundreds of police officers sexually abused kids and many dodged prison time. (WaPo)
A co-owner of the Calgary Flames paid to subject indigenous children to pseudoscientific brain wave experiments that were supposed to help them see angels. (CBC)

June 7, 2024

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The Best of the Week’s News

The Washington Post’s new CEO tried to squelch coverage of his links to a phone-hacking scandal. (SF Gate, NYT, NPR)
Nine witnesses in Trump’s criminal cases have received major benefits from his campaign and businesses, raising fears of witness tampering. (ProPublica)
Decaying, cash-strapped MTA has no lifeline after Gov. Kathy Hochul unexpectedly kills congestion pricing. (Curbed)
400 incarcerated New Yorkers speak out about the reality of prison labor as Legal Aid Society advances legislation to ban forced labor behind bars. (NY Mag)
Can state Supreme Courts safeguard the rights we have, or even recognize new ones? (New Yorker)