The Best of the Week’s News:

• Seeking better pay and benefits, the United Autoworkers take on the whole Big Three in historic strike. (AP, NYT)
   
• Last-minute deal raises CA fast food minimum wage to $20/hr and averts an industry-sponsored ballot measure to overturn pro-union law. (SacBee)
   
• California legislature may soon require restaurants to pay for mandatory food safety training, instead of workers. (NYT)
   
• Minnesota labor activists push for a code of conduct to protect construction workers. (Guardian)
   
• Wisconsin Republicans declare war on democracy. (Mother Jones)
   
• Families of Birmingham church bombing victims fear that Alabama’s law against teaching “divisive concepts” will erase history. (HuffPo)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• The National Labor Relations Board steps up its fight for workers’ rights. (Prospect)
   
• Will Starbucks’ scorched earth union-busting campaign slow union gains? (Guardian) 
   
• We hear a lot about shoplifting, but wage theft is the bigger crime. (LA Times)
   
• Teamster dies of heat stroke after making deliveries in 101-degree temps.  (Yahoo)
   
• NYPD’s plan to surveil Labor Day parties with drones raises privacy concerns. (NBC)

The Best of the Week’ News:

• Cornell will drop Starbucks for violating labor laws, punishing pro-union Cornell students. (Cornell Daily Sun)
   
• Government experts deem conditions in ICE detention “barbaric” and “negligent.” (NPR)
   
• Right-wing provocateur James O’Keefe is under criminal investigation for allegedly looting Project Veritas. (Nation)
   
• Trader Joe’s workers in Boston protest the firing of a vocally pro-union employee. (WGBH)
   
• Why the writer’s strike matters. (WBUR)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• Inside the nation’s nerve center of union-busting. (HuffPo)
   
• Feds denounce surge in exploitation of migrant children. (NYT)
   
• McDonalds cited 388 times for child labor since May. (TCH)
   
• US Rep. Greg Caesar goes on “thirst strike” to push for water breaks for workers. (Texas Tribune) 
   
• UPS and the Teamsters agree on a tentative 5-year contract, averting Aug 1 strike. (WaPo)
   
• Tesla lied about the range of its electric vehicles and cancelled the service appointments of buyers seeking to fix the problem. (Reuters) 
   
• Right-wing news powers scammy “buy gold” industry. (WaPo)