Sidney’s Picks:

• Pandemic crashes the Dollar Store business model. (NYT)
   
• Drivers could earn less than $5/hr under Massachusetts’ proposed gig worker law. (Yahoo)
   
• Tens of thousands of U.S. workers could be on strike within weeks. (Guardian) 
   
• Climate change will cost insurers trillions, why are they still investing in fossil fuels? (Prospect)
   
• It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Ed Vargas. Ed joined the ILGWU as a worker in a shop in Local 99. From there he spent 55 years in various positions with the union and touched everyone who knew him. Most recently he worked as a Labor Liaison in the Governor’s office for the State of New York. Ed has been instrumental in keeping alive the legacy of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and is largely responsible for the annual commemoration and the permanent memorial in-progress. We will miss him tremendously.

The Best of the Week’s News:

• Striking Nabisco workers reached a tentative deal with management after a week of rising tensions and allegations of anti-union violence.  (EaterPDX, KATU, WWeek) 
   
• Will Biden’s plan finally tax the rich and boost local news? (NPR, MarketWatch, Forbes)
   
• Broken promises and surging workplace deaths in North Carolina. (The Assembly)
   
• Courts in Wisconsin are forcing women to co-parent with their abusers. (ProPublica) 

Best of the Week’s News:

• The Supreme Court kills Roe v. Wade quietly, on the shadow docket, by refusing to pause a Texas law that sics legal vigilantes on anyone who facilitates an abortion. (Rewire, NYT, NY Mag)
   
• Anti-vaxxers bearing zip ties confront high school principle, threatening to kidnap her. (WaPo)
   
• Organizing Starbucks workers in Buffalo call on CEO to uphold eight fair election principles, as they look ahead to organizing one store at a time. (NYT, In These Times)
   
• The national Nabisco strike heated up, with the company sending scabs to the Portland plant and workers halting rail deliveries. (NW Labor Press, Willamette Week)
   
• Unprecedented rains kill at least 13 people in Brooklyn and Queens, drowning most in their basement apartments. (The City)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• Workers at all US Nabisco bakeries are now on strike. Workers are fighting for middle class jobs and fair working hours. (Today, Vice, Stranger)
   
• Scattershot: How a secret police algorithm based on sketchy science and tweaked by human bias landed a man in jail for murder. (AP)
   
• Extremist GOP rep Lauren Boebert introduced legislation to help oil drillers, without disclosing that her husband made $1 million in energy consulting. (WaPo) 
   
• Liar’s Remorse: She spread AZ election conspiracy theories, and it ruined her life. (AZ Audit) 
   
• South Carolina politicians blow off millions in ethics fines. (Post & Courier)