The Best of the Week’s News:

• John Deere striker struck and killed by a car near a picket line in Milan, IL. Meanwhile John Deere clams up about an earlier trailer collision on the picket line. (Des Moines Register, Intercept)
   
• Historian Nelson Lichtenstein urges workers to seize the Striketober moment to organize for lasting power. (Dissent)
   
• Buffalo Starbucks workers win the right to organize store-by-store. (Bloomberg Businessweek)
   
• Men in their eighties toil on sugar cane plantations linked to powerful Floridians. Ways and Means Chair calls for immediate investigation into allegations of forced labor. (Reveal)
   
• New York City taxi drivers enter second week of hunger strike for medallion debt relief. (NPR)