June 10, 2022
What Do Workers Want?; What Does Boudin’s Recall Mean?
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The number of workers in U.S. Starbucks locations that have filed for union elections (11/21-5/22). Via WERN report.
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)