The Best of the Week’s News

• OSHA will investigate North Dakota’s Bakken oil boom in light of a spate of workplace accidents.

• Editorial staffers at Salon.com announce their intent to unionize.

• The shaky (but lucrative) science of concussion treatments.

• The Radium Girls, workplace safety, and America’s love affair with radioactive toothpaste.

The Best of the Week’s News

• South Carolina is legally barred from removing the Confederate flag from its state house, and even from flying it at half-mast in honor of the nine victims of the Charleston massacre. 
   
• Hillman Judge Ta-Nehisi Coates urges the state to take the flag down, right now. 
   
• Hillman Prize-winner and historian of slavery Ed Baptist takes to twitter to explain the link between the Confederate flag and violence and gets cited on the front page of the New York Times.
   
• Jamil Smith reflects on the raw grief that follows yet another terrorist attack on a Black church.
   

The Best of the Week’s News

• Baja farmworkers may win big, thanks in part to a Sidney-winning LA Times story.

• Is the time right for virtual organizing?

• A factory worker who lost both hands making flatscreen TVs tells her story.

• What makes a woman, what makes a feminist?

Survivors of the Rana Plaza factory collapse, the deadliest industrial accident in history, will be fully compensated, thanks to the tireless efforts of the Clean Clothes Campaign and its allies. A fundraising breakthrough from an anonymous donor has pushed the Rana Plaza Donor’s trust to its $30 million goal:

The Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) is delighted to announce a major campaign victory with the confirmation that the Rana Plaza Donors Trust Fund has finally met its target of $30 million, following a large anonymous donation.

The CCC has been campaigning since the disaster in April 2013 to demand that brands and retailers provided compensation to its victims.

Since then over one million consumers from across Europe and around the world have joined actions against many of the major high street companies whose products were being made in one of the five factories housed in the structurally compromised building. These actions forced many brands to finally pay donations and by the second anniversary the Fund was still $2.4 million dollars short of its $30million target. A large donation received by the Fund in the last few days has now led to the Fund meeting its target. [CC.org]

Read more at CleanClothes.org.