The Best of the Week’s News:

• Pandemic UI has run out in rural Pennsylvania and people are hurting. (Belt) 
   
• Amazon workers in Bessemer, AL began voting by mail to decide whether their location will unionize. (Slate, Guardian, CBS)
   
• Some Amazon workers are looking ahead to an organized future, while Amazon is spending over $3200 a day to defeat the organizing drive. (WBUR, Intercept, TNR) 
   
• Philly is facing an avalanche of evictions, and court documents still don’t ensure due process for tenants. (Philly Inquirer) 
   
• NYC shelter exec Victor Rivera has been fired and placed under criminal investigation after a Times investigation aired allegations of sexual violence and financial impropriety. (NYT)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• With appointments and executive orders, Biden signals that organized labor is a high priority in his administration. (LA Times)
   
• What is the National Labor Relations Board and how does it affect the labor movement? (Teen Vogue)
   
• Google workers in 13 countries announce the formation of Alpha Global, a global union alliance. (The Verge)
   
• GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene floated an antisemitic conspiracy theory that a space laser might have caused a deadly California wildfire. (Media Matters)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• Uber Drivers and labor unions sue to overturn California’s Prop 22. (CNN, LA Times)
   
• Employees at the Canada Goose coat factory in Winnipeg say working conditions are for the birds. (Vice)
   
• The legendary Chicago Reporter is fighting for survival. (The Nation)
   
• Most House Republicans voted to finish what the Capitol rioters started. (Atlantic) 
   
• New York’s Filipino nurses brace for the next wave of COVID. (NYT)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• The air you breathe on a jet plane comes directly through the engine, which is perfectly safe… until it isn’t. (LA Times)
   
• Amazon is turning warehouse work from a middle class career to a dead-end job. (Bloomberg) 
   
• “No Choice but to Do It”: A new analysis reveals how abusive men land women in prison. (New Republic) 
   
• Hillman Prize-winner Rachel Louise Snyder, an expert on the effects of domestic violence, pleads for a death row reprieve for Lisa Montgomery. (NYT)
   
• UM fires a distinguished history professor after he criticizes the carceral state and, most importantly, the university’s racist donors. (MS Free Press)
   
• How systemic racism destroys Black people’s kidneys and then pushes transplants out of reach. (ProPublica)