The Best of the Week’s News:

• “We want our pension back”: Nabisco strike goes national, and strikers call for Oreo boycott. (NYT, WBUR)
   
• Starbucks workers in Buffalo to form the chain’s first union, and Collectivo becomes the largest unionized chain of coffee shops in the country. (Eater, ITT) 
   
• Vaccination as Solidarity: Building trades union imposes a vaccination mandate on itself. (Prospect)
   
• Meet the right wing grifters behind the phony Covid cure that has humans overdosing on horse dewormer and sheep dip. (NBC) 

The Best of the Week’s News:

• Extreme heat compounds the miseries and dangers of migrant farm work. (Nation)
   
• New York Times lawyers accidentally send secret strategy memo to union. (Daily Beast)
   
• Caregivers deserve better. (NYT)
   
• Thanks to a wonky secret algorithm, sick people can be denied pain medication because they filled scripts for their sick dogs. (Wired)
   
• Labor takes aim at proposed  Amazon-MGM merger. (Deadline)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• Infrastructure deal struck, but fate of reconciliation companion bill in doubt. (Prospect)
   
• Police shot and killed more people in 2020 than any year on record. (WaPo)
   
• New gerrymandering scheme dropped: The right takes aim at kids (Brennan Center)
   
• Remembering civil rights legend, algebra evangelist, and 2021 Hillman Officers’ Award-winner Robert P. Moses.
   
• Tireless local activist shut out of sewer board, $2.9 million wastewater upgrade in peril. (AL.com)

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)