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The Best of the Week’s News:

• New “Death Star” law poised to strip Texas’s big blue cities of self-government. (Texas Observer)
   
• Major League Baseball has paid a $185 million to settlement to unionized minor league players for violating minimum wage laws. (ESPN)
   
• The victims of the Triangle Fire will finally get a memorial. (NYT)
   
• Google’s parent company illegally fired contract workers for trying to organize, workers allege. (Fortune)
   
• Strike Wave Summer: Workers turn up the heat (WaPo)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• Starbucks is waging a dirty war on baristas. (NYT)
   
• Hillman judge Ta-Nehisi Coates travels to South Carolina to support a teacher under fire for using his book on racism. (Essence)
   
• How Jimmy Hoffa and the Teamsters made Las Vegas into an international gambling Mecca. (Baffler)
   
• Accident at Mississippi poultry plant kills 16-year-old middle school schooler. (Guardian) 
   
• Tesla directors vastly overpaid themselves and now they have to give $735 million back to the shareholders. (Reuters)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• Texas nurses strike to defend patient safety. (Texas Observer)
   
• Hollywood actors’ contract expires tonight. A-listers signal solidarity with striking writers. (LAT)
   
• Teamsters ask UPS for its last, best, and final offer no later than today. (AP)
   
• Chip manufacturer with poor safety record and billions in tax credits wants to bring 500 Taiwanese migrant workers to Arizona (Prospect)
   
• As extreme heat grips Texas, workers struggle to survive with few legal protections. (Guardian)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• A father, a son, and a WGA picket line. (NYT)
   
• Journalists at Gannett, the country’s largest newspaper chain, will walk off the job next week to protest budget cuts. (WaPo)
   
• Unions can still strike, despite a terrible Supreme Court decision. (Labor Notes)
   
• Low-income workers made dramatic gains during the pandemic. (Politico)
   
• AI tech tightens surveillance of workers. (Guardian)

Best of the Week’s News:

• Iowa meatpackers set their sights on organizing the notorious Tyson Foods. (In These Times)
   
• Dirty Dozen: From Amazon and Tesla to the Twin Peaks “breastaurant” how America’s worst employers are endangering their workers. (National COSH)
   
• National Labor Relations board accuses Starbucks of failing to negotiate fairly with baristas. (Bloomberg)
   
• Why Biden’s pick for Secretary of Labor triggers the right wing. (NYMag)
   
• Hollywood is gearing up for a likely writers’ strike. (NYT)
   
• Ron DeSantis accused of torturing detainees at Guantanamo in the early 2000s. (Guardian)