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Best of the Week’s News:

• Tesla workers fired a day after labor push, union says; the automaker also recalled over 300,000 “full self-driving” cars that may cause crashes. (PBS, NYT, CNBC)
   
• California electricity giant PG&E arraigned for manslaughter in wildfire deaths, drops cute music video. (ABC 10)
   
• Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh decamps to lead the National Hockey League players’ union. (NPR)
   
• Blunt texts show Tucker Carlson and other top Fox News hosts knew the 2020 election was legit. (Vice)
   
• Over 1000 trains derail every year, but it doesn’t have to be that way. (NYT)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• Fear and loathing among the union-busters (Lever News)
   
• Californians allege that canvassers used underhanded and abusive tacticsto gather signatures for anti-labor ballot initiative. (LAT)
   
• Union of Southern Service Workers strikes for the first time. (Food Section)
   
• How UnitedHealthcare schemed to deny lifesaving treatment. (ProPublica)
   
• Unregulated “crisis pregnancy centers” endanger patients. (Guardian)
   
• Democrats look to expand family leave to millions of workers. (HuffPo)

Best of the Week’s News:

• Hector LaSalle’s bid to become New York’s top jurist blocked in the State Senate after pressure from labor and pro-choice groups. (NYMag)
   
• The restaurant industry makes new hires pay for “safety trainings” and spends their money fighting minimum wage increases. (NYT)
   
• Kroger union files lawsuit alleging rampant wage theft. (News59)
   
• “That was torture”: Kenyan laborers paid $2/hr (or less) to screen out horrific content for the ChatGPT bot. (Time)
   
• The teacher shortage in MS is so bad that high school students are teaching themselves geometry. (WaPo)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• Kathy Hochul’s nominee for chief judge faces stiff opposition because he’s anti-union and anti-abortion. (Common Dreams, Vox, Times Union)
   
• A cabin cleaner explains why she and her union are demanding action to protect the airline service workforce. (Forbes)
   
• The Federal Trade Commission has proposed a sweeping new rule that would ban non-compete clauses. (NYT)
   
• Video game workers gain a union toehold at Microsoft. (NYT)
   
• “He’s getting paid to kill us”: Milwaukee slumlord  stiffs tenants on heat during deadly cold spell. (Journal-Sentinel)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• Staffers at the New York Times staged a historic 24-hour strike, seeking a fair share of the paper’s rising profits. (WaPo)
   
• Reporters, editors, and columnists were joined on the NYT picket line by IT specialists, security guards, sales coordinators, and freelancers. (The City, The Nation)
   
• Peter Baker and Micheal Shear of the NYT’s DC bureau scabbedyesterday’s strike. (NYMag) 
   
• Students occupied a building at the New School  in support of a job action that has become the longest adjunct strike in U.S. history. (Teen Vogue)
   
• A Miami judge has thrown out another voter fraud case brought by governor Ron DeSantis’ “election police.” (Miami Herald)