The Best of the Week’s News:

• Seeking better pay and benefits, the United Autoworkers take on the whole Big Three in historic strike. (AP, NYT)
   
• Last-minute deal raises CA fast food minimum wage to $20/hr and averts an industry-sponsored ballot measure to overturn pro-union law. (SacBee)
   
• California legislature may soon require restaurants to pay for mandatory food safety training, instead of workers. (NYT)
   
• Minnesota labor activists push for a code of conduct to protect construction workers. (Guardian)
   
• Wisconsin Republicans declare war on democracy. (Mother Jones)
   
• Families of Birmingham church bombing victims fear that Alabama’s law against teaching “divisive concepts” will erase history. (HuffPo)