The Best of the Week’s News
 

• Union-backed shareholders ask SEC to make Starbucks level with investiors about the $240 million the company has spent on union-busting. (Reuters)
   
• Labor Department says Fayette Janitorial LLC illegally hired 24 children to clean two slaughter houses, including the head-splitters and bandsaws. (NBC)
   
• How to save the collapsing U.S. media. (Jacobin)
   
• A formerly unhoused journalist reports on the spiraling housing crisis from the tents, cars, motels, and couches of America. (NYT)
   
• Alexei Navalny’s mother says the Russian government is blackmailing her, refusing to releae his body unless she agrees to a secret burial. (Axios)
   
• How part-time schedules wreak havoc on workers’ lives. (NYT)

The Best of the Week’s News
 

• NLRB judge rules that Dartmouth’s basketball players are employees of the university, gives the first NCAA players the right to organize a union. (AP)
   
• A 16-year-old boy died after being pulled into an industrial chicken-boning machine at the plant where he worked. (Law & Crime)
   
• New podcast explores the history, strategy, and significance of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). (Organizing the Unorganized)
   
• Labor judge orders Starbucks to reinstate barista who was forced out for organizing at the first Buffalo store. (AP)
   
• Guardian Angel vigilante group roughs up an alleged heckler for Fox News cameras, falsely accuses him of shoplifting. (NYMag)
   
• More than 30% of Hyundai autoworkers in Montgomery, AL have joined a UAW union drive. (ITT)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• LA Times lays off 120 journalists, more than 60 of whom are people of color. (NiemanLab)  
   
• Texas Rep. calls on Biden to take control of the Texas National Guard as governor Abbott uses Guard to flout Supreme Court ruling to remove deadly razor wire. (The Hill)  
   
• Inmate writhed for 2 minutes, lingered for 22, after Alabama deployed an untested nitrogen execution protocol. (Daily Beast)  
   
• Interview with Barrett Award-winner Bryan Stevenson on “How To Keep Going When Things Get Hard.” (podcast)  
   
• The New Labor Playbook (NYT, video)  
   
• A trade loophole allows Chinese clothing companies to flood the U.S. market without inspections or tariffs. (Prospect)

The best of the week’s news

• Licenses yanked from dozens of car dealerships after Sidney-winning exposé of illegal “ghost tags.” (Streetsblog)  
   
• National Labor Relations Board blocks bid to dissolve Starbucks union at Mall of America. (MN Reformer)  
   
• Elmore Nickleberry, one of the last living participants in the Memphis sanitation strike of 1968, dies at age 92. (NYT)  
   
• The “legitimate shell company” that Oversight Chair James Comer initially denied owning was shut down twice. (Daily Beast)  
   
• Big Oil drops eight figures on ads to derail action on the climate crisis. (Guardian)