The Best of the Week’s News:

• “We all quit,” Nebraska Burger King employees vote with their feet over unsafe working conditions. (WREG)
   
• Full-time minimum wage workers can’t afford rent anywhere in the US. (CNBC)
   
• How to get labor law reform past the filibuster. (Washington Monthly)
   
• Liberté, Egalité, Britney! The investigative reporters excavating the Spears conservatorship fiasco. (ProPublica)
   
• Hillman Prize-winner Jamelle Bouie describes the two fronts in the GOP war on voting. (NYT)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• EPA confirms findings of Sidney-winning exposé of Florida’s only lead smelter, consequences expected (Tampa Bay Times)
   
• Portland Amazon delivery companies enter open revolt against the retailer. (Vice)
   
• Australian scientist who was at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the fall of 2019 speaks out. (Bloomberg)
   
• Poll: Americans want less crime, but not more cops. (WaPo)
   
• Supreme Court guts the Voting Rights Act. Adam Serwer explains John Roberts’ hostility to the VRA.  (NPR, MoJo)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• Rat traps and claptrap: How right wing groups are astroturfing a moral panic over Critical Race Theory (NBC)
   
• Amazon tracks every minute of every worker’s day, but Amazon HR is chaos. (NYT)
   
• The New Yorker Union reaches a deal with Condé Nast, averting a strike. (NYT)
   
• The evidence-free rehabilitation of “lab leak theories” of COVD. (LA Times)
   
• Rights not rites: A toxic work environment shouldn’t be a rite of passage
   
• Canadian Hillman-winners Kenneth Jackson and Cullen Crozier of APTN win the prestigious Michener Award. 

The Best of the Week’s News:

• Amazon workers are more likely to get hurt on the job. (WaPo) 
   
• Survivors call for action, but a lack of records stalls efforts to identify the Indigenous children found in 215 unmarked graves at a former Canadian residential school. (CBC)
   
• A whistleblower warned that residential schools were death traps in 1922, but the Canadian government ignored him, so he became an investigative journalist, and the public ignored him, too. (Tyee) 
   
• Trump let meatpackers unsafely accelerate their lines during COVID, now Biden is telling them to slow down. (HuffPo)
   
• More twists in the Sidney-winning investigation into Florida’s only lead smelter. (TB Times)