The Best of the Week’s News:

• Striketober and the Revenge of the Essential Worker. (TNR)
   
• Amazon workers on Staten Island are gathering signatures and bracing for an anti-union campaign. (NYT)
   
• Flight attendants for an AA subsidiary have authorized a strike by a 100% vote. If they can’t avert a strike, they may escalate to a plan they call CHAOS. (HuffPost)
   
• Sleep deprivation stalks homeless people. (Nation)
   
• Three kids attacked a Black woman in Louisiana, when she asked a Sherrif’s Deputy for help, he beat her more. (ProPublica)