The Best of the Week’s News:

• Chipotle illegally shut down store to thwart union effort, officials say. Immigrant organizers say the fresh Mex chain fired them for organizing. (HuffPo, Documented NY)
   
• Apple’s first unionized retail outlet has filed an unfair labor practice complaint, accusing management of withholding benefits. (Apple Insider)
   
• Why sick leave is a huge issue for America’s rail workers. (NYT)
   
• World’s richest man poised to light $44 billion on fire at Twitter. (WaPo)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• Amazon’s relentless productivity demands are turning minor injuries into chronic conditions. (Insider)
   
• Big Lie conspiracy theorists are running to be Secretaries of State, and some of them could win. (NYT)
   
• Railroads reject union’s ask for seven paid sick days out of hand in a move union official calls “asinine.” (CNN)
   
• Cartels recruiting teens to drive migrants with promises of quick cash on social media. (WSJ)
   
• Rich antisemite spends lavishly to take over critical swing county in Nevada. (KNUR)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• California governor Gavin Newsom relents, signs card-check bill for farmworkers after big push from the UFW, the California Federation of Labor, and Joe Biden. (Cal Matters)
   
• As union drive picks up steam, GEICO urges workers to call the police on union canvassers. (Labor Notes)
   
• Veteran Nintendo game tester says she was fired for asking about a union. (Axios)
   
• Digital sleuths make a breakthrough in the search for origins of the QAnon cult. (QOrigins)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• Clean water restored to Jackson, MS, but the fate of the water system remains uncertain. (MS Today)
   
• U.S. Open workers finally get paid after Documented blows the whistle on wage theft. (DocumentedNY)
   
• Biden averts rail strike by brokering a tentative last-minute deal, now it’s up to the rank-and-file to vote on it. (NYT, NP Bulletin, Trains)
   
• Clearwater Confidential: How Scientology basically killed an affordable house project in Florida. (TB Times)
   
• Over 5000 minor league baseball players voted to unionize after a lightening organizing campaign that took just 17 days. (Marketwatch)