The Best of the Week’s News

• China frees thousands of workers held captive in Myanmar and forced to commit cyber scams on an industrial scale. (VOA, NYT)
   

• Rev. Nelson Johnson, a labor and civil rights icon, was laid to rest this week in North Carolina. (NYT, NCAT.edu)   
   

• DoorDash to pay a $16.75 million settlement for stealing Dashers’ tips. (Gizmodo)
   

• How Dan Bongino went from crazed right wing podcaster to deputy director of the FBI. (Wired)
   

• How to address wage theft in New York City in the Trump era. (TheCity)

The Best of the Week’s News

• Families of immigrants detained at Guantanamo dispute government’s claim that their loved ones are violent gang members. (ProPublica)
   

• Immigration authorities raided the town of Cactus nearly twenty years ago, but the consequences still reverberate and other towns fear history will repeat itself. (TX Monthly, WaPo)
   

• Meat industry asks Trump administration to deregulate factory farms and meat-packing plants. (Sentient)
   

• Check out Wage Theft Monitor, a new publicly accessible database of wage theft in New York and beyond. (Documented) 
   

• Woman jailed for drug use during pregnancy released following investigation by Mississippi Today. (MT)

The Best of the Week’s News

• Air traffic control was understaffed during Potomac plane crash that killed 67, but Trump blames DEI, not his own FAA cuts. (NYT, CNN, Time)
   

• Trump fires National Labor Relations Board general counsel and board member, depriving the board of a quorum. (Bloomberg)
   

• Tennessee makes it a felony for local officials to vote against Trump’s immigration agenda. (Tennessean)
   

• We will miss the immigrants when they’re gone. (NYT)
   

• Whole Foods workers vote to become Amazon’s first unionized grocery store. (NYT)
   

• Capitol rioter shot dead by police three days after his pardon was one of many with serious criminal records. (BBC, NPR)
   

• Fast food workers struggle to survive. (AP)

The Best of the Week’s News

• Meatpacking giants agree to pay $8 million for hiring migrant children to work in slaughterhouses. (NYT)
   

• Donald Trump’s allies waged a campaign of witness intimidation to confirm Pete Hegseth. (New Yorker)
   

• Texas pays anti-choice “crisis pregnancy centers” $14 to hand out a box of donated diapers. (ProPublica)
   

• Manhattan construction company accused of stealing tens of thousands of dollars in wages from immigrant workers. (Gothamist)
   

• Tech billionaires’ “war on woke” is a war on workers. (Salon)

The Best of the Week’s News
 

• NYC’s fastest-growing union is management-friendly and some members don’t even know they belong. (The City)
   

• Amazon and Starbucks workers walk off the job in several major cities, with Starbucks workers seeking their first union contract. (VNY)
   

• As reforms slash the cost of prison phone calls, telecom companies pivot to predatory pricing for tablets. (Prism)
   

• Amazon tried to hide its sky-high warehouse injury rates, senate report finds. (WaPo)
   

• Remembering John Lewis writing fellow, Janie Ekere (1998-2024).
   

• Corporate rehabs are luring addicts with free housing and sham treatmentwith disastrous consequences. (NYT)