The Best of the Week’s News:

• Clean water restored to Jackson, MS, but the fate of the water system remains uncertain. (MS Today)
   
• U.S. Open workers finally get paid after Documented blows the whistle on wage theft. (DocumentedNY)
   
• Biden averts rail strike by brokering a tentative last-minute deal, now it’s up to the rank-and-file to vote on it. (NYT, NP Bulletin, Trains)
   
• Clearwater Confidential: How Scientology basically killed an affordable house project in Florida. (TB Times)
   
• Over 5000 minor league baseball players voted to unionize after a lightening organizing campaign that took just 17 days. (Marketwatch) 

The Best of the Week’s News:

• CA lege passes law guaranteeing sectoral bargaining for fast food workers, but will Gov. Gavin Newsom sign it?  (LAT, Vice, MoJo)
   
• Labor official rejects Amazon’s bid to overturn Staten Island union victory. (NYT)
   
• Will “fetal personhood” laws pave the way to a national abortion ban?
   
• Trump’s hoard of top secret documents may have already damaged national security, expert says. (WaPo)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• Starbucks must rehire baristas fired in union-busting purge: (WaPo)
   
• Boss who parlayed $70k starting pay into social media stardom resigns over abuse allegations (NYT)
   
• California’s fast food law could set a new standard for frontline workers. (WaPo)
   
• Amazon warehouse workers file for union election. (Gothamist)
   

The Best of the Week’s News:

• The race is on to pass a landmark bill to help fast food workers organize in California. (Politico, Voice of OC)
   
• Starbucks is telling workers that trans health benefits are at risk if they unionize, a far-fetched scenario designed to chill organizing. (In These Times)
   
• Senate Dems introduce legislation to protect the federal workforce after Trump vowed to reinstate Schedule F if reelected. (Government Executive)
   
• Neighbors help neighbors in flood-ravaged Kentucky. (WKMS)
   
• Florida governor Ron DeSantis takes the unprecedented step of suspending an elected Democratic prosecutor and installing a Fed Soc Republican in his place. (Bolts)