Best of the Week’s News:

• “Workers still have the upper hand”: Two unions reach sick leave agreements with CSX Transportation. (Yahoo)
   
• Inside Ron DeSantis’s takeover of a liberal arts college. (Vice)
   
• Rail companies blocked safety upgrades before devastating Ohio derailment. (Lever)
   
• Bernie Sanders signals showdown with Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz; Starbucks found guilty of unfair labor practices. (AP, 9News) 
   
• Mississippi House passes bill to strip majority-Black city of Jackson of the right to appoint its own judges and prosecutors. (CNBC)
   
• “Missing service workers” have moved on to better office jobs. (WaPo)
   
• “Litefeet” subway acrobatics are a working class art form. (Economic Hardship)

Best of the Week’s News:

• Judge rules that the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette bargained in bad faith with the union, broke National Labor Relations Act. (WTAE)
   
• Nearly all of NYC’s 300,000 unionized employees are working under expired contracts and frustration is mounting. (The City)
   
• HarperCollins and its union head to mediation to resolve their differences after weeks on strike. (Publishers Weekly)
   
• Amazon workers strike in Britain for the first time, with workers walking off the job in Coventry. (Jacobin)
   
• South Korea’s government smears labor unions as fronts for communist spies from North Korea. (Al Jazeera)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• 7000 nurses back on the job as union hails a “historic victory” in their strike for safer staffing levels. (NBC)
   
• Twitter may have broken the law by firing its immigrant cleaning staff. (Documented)
   
• More reasons why Hector LaSalle is the wrong pick to lead New York’s highest court. (Syracuse.com)
   
• Why UPS workers are poised to strike. (New Yorker)
   
• “Director of First Impressions”: How companies cheat low wage workers out of overtime by giving them fancy titles (Pop Info)
   
• Amazon loses bid to overturn Staten Island union victory. (NYT)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• The National Labor Relations Board stiffens penalties for employers who break the law. (WaPo)
   
• Starbucks workers plan three-day walkout starting Friday, the second major strike in a month. (NPR)
   
• Twitter’s former head of trust and safety was forced to flee his home after Elon Musk falsely accused him of being a pedophile. Critical journalists kicked off the platform without notice. (CNN)
   
• Solar and wind power poised to become the largest source of energy by 2025. (LA Times)
   
• Mapping Mar-a-Lago: A potential playground for spies (NYT)