The Best of the Week’s News

• Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup may be the cause of a mystery kidney disease that’s killing sugar cane workers.

• Nominate a woman under 35 for the Kate Mullany Courageous Young Worker Award by Aug 28. The $1000 prize recognizes someone who has championed rights at work against great opposition.

• Four years after the refinery explosion that killed seven workers in Washington State, no one has been held accountable.

• Doctors in Southern California allegedly put hardware-store grade screws into the spines of patients as part of a multi-million dollar fraud scheme.

[Photo credit: Wander Mule, Creative Commons.]