The Best of the Week’s News:

• Workers at three New York Starbucks locations seek to unionize as the movement surges nationwide after the firing of seven organizers in Memphis. (Eater, Guardian, WaPo)
   
• The real reason the US doesn’t have enough truckers. (NYT, Prospect)
   
• Bleach-drinking bishop appears to be peddling his toxic “cure” from inside Colombian prison. (Vice)
   
• Biden is doing his best for unions, but it’s not enough without Congress. (New Republic)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• Customer service reps endure terrible working conditions including harassment and abuse by customers. (ProPublica)
   
• Amazon illegally threatened and surveilled workers in New York City ahead of a union election, NLRB prosecutors allege. (Al Jazeera/Bloomberg, Vice, WaPo)
   
• Nothing sacred: These apps reserve the right to sell your prayers. (Buzzfeed)
   
• Tucker Carlson and Glenn Greenwald drive online harassment of female journalists, according to new report. (Brookings) 

The Best of the Week’s News:

• Three quarters of Kroger workers are food insecure and 14% live in poverty, according to a new report. (In These Times)
   
• Self-closing door law didn’t save victims of Bronx fire. (The City)
   
• Good for labor, good for art: More museum workers are unionizing, including workers at the renowned Art Institute of Chicago. (ArtForum, Fox32)
   
• The federal courts drop survey question about workplace misconduct because too many staffers said they’d witnessed workplace misconduct. (WaPo)
   
• Here’s every Starbucks store that’s holding a union vote (Fast Company)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• Kellogg’s workers say they’ve reached a tentative deal that could get them back to work before the end of December. (Reuters)
   
• Text messages before the tornado show Amazon management as callous and disorganized. (Bloomberg) 
   
• New York City’s worker protection agency announces its first “just cause” settlement for workers who were fired from a Subway franchise for being unable to work a single shift. (Brooklyn Paper)
   
• Investigative journalists foil anti-vaxx assassination plot in Saxony. (BBC)
   
• Wayfair: How a QAnon lie about child sex trafficking and furniture ended up hurting real kids (WaPo)