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)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• Starbucks union victories could be the beginning of an organizing wave in Georgia. (AJC)
   
• A new law could increase fines for unsafe construction sites, if Gov. Hochul signs it. (NYT)
   
• Planned Parenthood workers vote to unionize. (WWLP)
   
• Highland Park and an Illegitimate Supreme Court (New Yorker)
   
• More things Biden could be doing to support abortion rights. (WaPo, Slate)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• Starbucks used “an array of illegal tactics” to thwart union drive, NLRB complaint alleges. (CBS)
   
• In forensic pathology, racist assumptions can lead to false allegations. (NYT)
   
• A billionaire and GOP mega-donor is gaming the tax system. (ProPublica)
   
• Gore-Tex heir funded a GOP spy op linked to Blackwater founder Erik Prince. (Mother Jones)
   
• Philadelphia Story: An armed society is a mass-shooting society. (Prospect)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• What do workers want? New report has answers. (WERN)
   
• California fast food workers strike for better working conditions. (LAT)
   
• Private equity, absentee landlords, and weak tenant protection laws make most of Georgia’s affordable housing barely habitable. (AJC)
   
• In Limbo at the Airway Inn: Jackson Heights residents displaced by fire wait to return home. (Curbed)
   
• San Francisco journalists debunk national media myth-making about the recall of progressive DA Chesa Boudin. (Defector; Mission Local)
   
• Sidney-winners making an impact: Detention facility that illegally jailed children will now have oversight. (ProPublica)