Best of the Week’s News:

• When two giant gold mines merged, miners paid the price. (High Country News, Hillman Grantee) 
   
• Workers at the nation’s only unionized Starbucks walked off the job this week over Covid safety concerns. (Buffalo News) 
   
• Canadian officials reach a $31.5 billion deal to compensate Indigenous kids put in foster care unnecessarily. (WaPo)
   
• Comics creators at Image Comics vote to certify their historic union. (Gizmodo)
   
• National Labor Relations Board rules that the New York Times illegally interfered with union organizing by tech workers. (Reuters)