The Best of the Week’s News:

• The passage of California’s Prop 22 is a disaster for workers and a massive giveaway to ride share companies like Uber and Lyft. Uber now says it will seek similar laws in other states. (Capital & Main, Streetsblog, WaPo) 
   
• Organized labor vows to keep up the fight against Prop 22, eyeing lawsuits and a bold lobbying agenda for a Biden administration. (Cal Matters) 
   
• Lessons from Flordia’s successful ballot initiative for a $15/hr minimum wage. (Vox)
   
• Trump’s long-shot lawsuits won’t stop the vote count, but they could delegitimize the democratic process. Pro-Trump pundits are already calling on state legislatures to ignore the vote. (Mother Jones, Media Matters)
   
• COVID case numbers and hospitalization rates surge nationwide. (NYT, NY Post)
   
• Denmark to destroy millions of mink after some animals test positive for COVID and spread it to humans. However, experts say that fears of an extra-dangerous “mutant” mink strain are likely overblown. (New Scientist)