Best of the Week’s News:

• Hector LaSalle’s bid to become New York’s top jurist blocked in the State Senate after pressure from labor and pro-choice groups. (NYMag)
   
• The restaurant industry makes new hires pay for “safety trainings” and spends their money fighting minimum wage increases. (NYT)
   
• Kroger union files lawsuit alleging rampant wage theft. (News59)
   
• “That was torture”: Kenyan laborers paid $2/hr (or less) to screen out horrific content for the ChatGPT bot. (Time)
   
• The teacher shortage in MS is so bad that high school students are teaching themselves geometry. (WaPo)