The Best of the Week’s News:

• Migrant teens are working with scalding chemicals and doing other dangerous jobs. (NYT)
   
• Targeted UAW strikes spread to 38 locations in 20 states.  (AP)
   
• UAW files complaint against Sen. Tim Scott for anti-union comment. GOP “support” for the strike remains a joke. (Intercept, New Yorker)
   
• The unlikely rise of Shawn Fain from rank-and-file electrician to UAW president. (Politico)
   
• Rats, machetes, and fire traps: Why Dollar General might be America’s worst place to work. (Bloomberg)
   
• Clarence Thomas secretly attended Koch Donor Network events. (ProPublica) 

The Best of the Week’s News:

• Summer strike wave: If autoworkers walk off the job, there will be more striking workers than anytime since 2018. (NYT)
   
• New Florida law targets public sector unions. (TB Times)
   
• NLRB deluged with complaints about Starbucks’s unfair labor practices. (Guardian)
   
• Two unions launch at Virginia Tech, one for grad students and one for campus workers. (Daily Cardinal)
   
• Personal care attendants reach tentative contract deal in Massachusetts. (WGBH)