The Best of the Week’s News:

• The 146 victims of the Triangle Factory fire received their long-awaited memorial this week, 111 years after their deaths galvanized the labor movement. (WaPo, Nation, NYT)  
   
• UAW unexpectedly expands strike to Ford’s Kentucky SUV plant signaling major escalation. (CNBC)
   
• Kaiser Permanente reaches tentative deal with health care union after historic 72-hr strike. (NBC)
   
• Book bans expand in Texas as new state law takes effect. (Texas Tribune, ProPublica)
   
• Epoch Times, a far-right conspiracy peddling newspaper, expanded revenues by 685% in two years. (NBC)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• Tyson and Perdue are under federal investigation for alleged child labor. (NYT)
   
• NLRB finds that Starbucks illegally withheld pay and benefits from workers. (Bloomberg)
   
• Biden says striking autoworkers deserve to do as well as the companies they work for, as Trump visits non-union shop. (Reuters, Jacobin)
   
• Stone countertops are killing workers. (LAT)
   
• Baton Rouge police allegedly ran a torture warehouse they called “The Brave Cave.” (AP)
   
• Canadian police won’t investigate doctor who sterilized an Inuit woman against her will. (AP)

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)