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Best of the Week’s News:

• Starbucks reneges on scheduling promise in apparent bid to oust Buffalo union organizers. (NYT)
   
• New York Times tech workers vote overwhelmingly to join the NewsGuild of New York. (Reuters)
   
• Stunning new documentary footage exposes Roger Stone’s role in the January 6 insurgency. (WaPo)
   
• Amazon union gets NLRB nod for a second election in New York. (Verge)
   
• “My city’s being shelled, but my mum won’t believe me.” Families abroad are trusting Putin’s propaganda over first-hand accounts, some Ukrainians say. (BBC)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will be Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, if confirmed she will be the first Black woman to sit on the high court. (CNN)
   
• Arrest of Amazon union organizer dropping off lunch may have violated labor laws. (Reuters)
   
• After public outcry, the Associated Press nixes plans to sell a photo of migrants at sea as a non-fungible token or NFT. (Guardian)
   
• Flight attendants’ union pushes Biden administration to extend airline mask mandate. (NYT)
   
• An Outlook crash causes Starbucks’ lawyers to miss a key filing deadline in their union-busting campaign. (Verge)
   
• Austin grand jury indicts at least 19 police officers for excessive use of force during protests in 2020. (KVUE)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• Workers at three New York Starbucks locations seek to unionize as the movement surges nationwide after the firing of seven organizers in Memphis. (Eater, Guardian, WaPo)
   
• The real reason the US doesn’t have enough truckers. (NYT, Prospect)
   
• Bleach-drinking bishop appears to be peddling his toxic “cure” from inside Colombian prison. (Vice)
   
• Biden is doing his best for unions, but it’s not enough without Congress. (New Republic)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• Customer service reps endure terrible working conditions including harassment and abuse by customers. (ProPublica)
   
• Amazon illegally threatened and surveilled workers in New York City ahead of a union election, NLRB prosecutors allege. (Al Jazeera/Bloomberg, Vice, WaPo)
   
• Nothing sacred: These apps reserve the right to sell your prayers. (Buzzfeed)
   
• Tucker Carlson and Glenn Greenwald drive online harassment of female journalists, according to new report. (Brookings) 

The Best of the Week’s News:

• Three quarters of Kroger workers are food insecure and 14% live in poverty, according to a new report. (In These Times)
   
• Self-closing door law didn’t save victims of Bronx fire. (The City)
   
• Good for labor, good for art: More museum workers are unionizing, including workers at the renowned Art Institute of Chicago. (ArtForum, Fox32)
   
• The federal courts drop survey question about workplace misconduct because too many staffers said they’d witnessed workplace misconduct. (WaPo)
   
• Here’s every Starbucks store that’s holding a union vote (Fast Company)