* DoorDash to pay $5.3 million to S.F. couriers over alleged violations of past benefits*

Starbucks workers in some stores are holding union elections. The company has closed some stores, and is calling workers in for pressure harassment sessions in others.

I have hardly ever done business with Starbucks, simply because their products don't appeal to my tastes. (I don't like coffee, for instance.) So I can't boycott Starbucks in any nontrivial way. But maybe you can. If you go to a Starbucks store where you have often bought something, ask for the manager, and say that you're going to boycott Starbucks because of its anti-union harassment.

The child-care funding in the Build Back Better (relief) bill requires state approval in each state. Republicans may use their power in many states to block approval, because they expect that suffering in the US will be blamed on Biden and Democrats.

The left alliance won the Venezuelan election, while Guaido's golpista alliance is generally despised and won almost nothing.

The democratic opposition, more popular than the golpistas, did win some offices.

*El Salvador rights groups fear repression after raids on seven offices.*