The Best of the Week’s News:

• A father, a son, and a WGA picket line. (NYT)
   
• Journalists at Gannett, the country’s largest newspaper chain, will walk off the job next week to protest budget cuts. (WaPo)
   
• Unions can still strike, despite a terrible Supreme Court decision. (Labor Notes)
   
• Low-income workers made dramatic gains during the pandemic. (Politico)
   
• AI tech tightens surveillance of workers. (Guardian)

Best of the Week’s News:

• Iowa meatpackers set their sights on organizing the notorious Tyson Foods. (In These Times)
   
• Dirty Dozen: From Amazon and Tesla to the Twin Peaks “breastaurant” how America’s worst employers are endangering their workers. (National COSH)
   
• National Labor Relations board accuses Starbucks of failing to negotiate fairly with baristas. (Bloomberg)
   
• Why Biden’s pick for Secretary of Labor triggers the right wing. (NYMag)
   
• Hollywood is gearing up for a likely writers’ strike. (NYT)
   
• Ron DeSantis accused of torturing detainees at Guantanamo in the early 2000s. (Guardian)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• Why 9000 higher-ed workers are striking at Rutgers. (Mother Jones)
   
• How Biden’s nominee to run the Department of Labor defended garment workers in the 1990s. (The 19th)
   
• Democratic lawmakers consider new legislation to stop employers from writing off union-busting consultants on their taxes. (Bloomberg)
   
• Florida bans abortion after 6 weeks, a move that will further increase risks to pregnant people. (NBC, WaPo)
   
• Man “eaten alive” by bugs in his jail cell, according to his family. (WaPo)

Check out the photos from last week’s 13th annual Canadian Hillman Prize ceremony in Toronto, where we honored outstanding investigative journalism for Canadians, made new friends, and reunited with old ones. 

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The Best of the Week’s News:

• Bernie Sanders’ HELP Committee has tough questions for union-busting CEOs. (Guardian)
   
• Starbucks workers greet new CEO with nationwide strike against union-busting. (Seattle Times, New Republic)
   
• Why New York Trader Joe’s workers want a union. (Gothamist)
   
• Hillman Prize-winner Phil Williams reports on a GOP rep who won’t say how he spent the money he raised to bury his dead baby. (NC5 Nashville)
   
• Massive three-day teachers’ strike in Los Angeles draws to a close, as scheduled, but no deal has been reached. (CNN)