The Best of the Week’s News:

• Texas’s electrical grid came within “seconds and minutes” of permanent destruction. (Texas Tribune)
   
• Amid a historic union drive, Amazon changed the timing of traffic lights, presumably to thwart organizers. (NYT, Verge, More Perfect Union) 
   
• How Prop 22 is “Uberizing” the US workforce, killing jobs and spooking unions. (Bloomberg)
   
• Postmates drivers are being scammed and robbed at an outrageous rate. (Markup)
   
• “A Position of Subordination and Dependency”: British court rules that Uber drivers are entitled to benefits. (NYT)
   
• As nursing home workers died of COVD, regulators looked the other way.(CNN) 
   
• Making poor parents work more and parent less isn’t a policy triumph. (NYT)