● A judge has thrown out a pre-emption law Arizona Republicans passed to block local governments from raising the minimum wage or otherwise improving conditions for workers.
● A bunch of good stuff could be on the 2018 Massachusetts ballot:
Proposals for ballot questions to raise the minimum wage, provide paid family and medical leave to workers, lower the state sales tax, limit nursing staffing ratios and require presidential candidates to release their tax returns were all certified by Attorney General Maura Healey on Wednesday.
● In his farewell to Boston, former Celtic Isaiah Thomas has something important to say about how the public seems to see labor relations in the NBA and what that says:
It’s like, man — with a few exceptions, unless we’re free agents, 99 times out of 100, it’s the owners with the power. So when players are getting moved left and right, and having their lives changed without any say-so, and it’s no big deal … but then the handful of times it flips, and the player has control … then it’s some scandal?
● A group of astronauts has joined the fight against FAA privatization.
● Workers Independent News: