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Best of the Week’s News:

• “The hardest working man in China” came to symbolize economic inequality. (NYT)
   
• The hidden costs of “containerization” (Prospect)
   
• Amazon workers at a second Staten Island warehouse file a petition for a union election. (CNBC)
   
• Map: Where are Starbucks workers organizing? (More Perfect Union)
   
• Anti-vax “truckers” invade Ottawa, desecrate war memorials, and harass residents. (BlogTO)
   
• Mississippi’s only class on Critical Race Theory challenges students’ preconceptions. (MS Today)

Best of the Week’s News:

• A judge accused of illegally jailing Black children has announced her retirement in the wake of a Sidney-winning investigation by WPLN News and ProPublica. (WPLN) 
   
• Why newsrooms are unionizing non-stop (Nieman Reports)
   
• How antisemitic conspiracy theories contributed to a hostage crisis at a Texas synagogue. (Conversation)
   
• The hospital staffing crisis is caused by greed and poor working conditions, nurses say. (NYT)
   
• Workwear maker Carhartt says it’s keeping its vaccine mandate despite the Supreme Court striking down the vaccinate or test requirement for large employers, but Starbucks is scrapping theirs. (WaPo, NPR) 

Best of the Week’s News:

• When two giant gold mines merged, miners paid the price. (High Country News, Hillman Grantee) 
   
• Workers at the nation’s only unionized Starbucks walked off the job this week over Covid safety concerns. (Buffalo News) 
   
• Canadian officials reach a $31.5 billion deal to compensate Indigenous kids put in foster care unnecessarily. (WaPo)
   
• Comics creators at Image Comics vote to certify their historic union. (Gizmodo)
   
• National Labor Relations Board rules that the New York Times illegally interfered with union organizing by tech workers. (Reuters)

Best of the Week’s News:

• Starbucks workers in Buffalo vote to form a union, which is another good sign for the labor movement. (AP, Vox)
   
• An inside look at fast food organizing in New York City. (Civil Eats)
   
• Kellogg’s plans to permanently replace striking workers, but these redditors have other ideas. (CBS. Quartz)
   
• A beloved small town teacher gets fired for teaching his students that white privilege is real. (WaPo)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• Lawsuit alleges a culture of rampant sexual harassment at Tesla. (WaPo)
   
• Using debunked legal arguments, Republicans battle to seize control of elections in Wisconsin. (NYT)
   
• Pennsylvania’s increasingly right-wing legislature is increasingly hostile to public sector unions. (WHYY)
   
• Workers at a Starbucks store outside of New York say they want a union, too. (Reuters)
   
• Starbucks has reportedly fired an Arizona manager who blew the whistle on the company’s union-busting tactics, and SBWorkersUnited has started a GoFundMe to help her. (twitter, GFM)
   
• In his “Unionbusting” segment, John Oliver introduces a new generation to the classic ILGWU jingle “Look for the Union Label.” (HBO, JTA)