• Workers are unionizing at four Blue Bottle Coffee East Bay locations — a  Nestle-owned company, citing unsafe conditions, lack of benefits, and management neglect, including a sewage leak that required OSHA intervention. After a worker who read the union letter was fired and management failed to respond by the June 20 deadline, employees held pickets and filed for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board. [Oaklandside]
• Despite ridership being up 55% since last year, Caltrain will raise its base fare by 25 cents starting Tuesday to help offset a projected $75 million annual deficit. The agency says it may face deep service cuts and station closures without additional funding. [East Bay Times]
• A man who ambushed and killed Sacramento police officer Tara O’Sullivan during a 2019 domestic violence call was sentenced to death Friday, though the execution is unlikely due to California’s moratorium. Officer O’Sullivan, 26, was remembered as a rising star, and a local bridge was memorialized in her name. [SFGate]
• Here’s a running list that tracks every person killed by San Francisco police since 2000, which is now at 65 — most of them young men of color, many with mental illness or experiencing homelessness. [Mission Local]
• Two more former guards at Dublin’s now-shuttered federal women’s prison — infamously dubbed “the rape club” — have been charged with sexually abusing inmates, bringing the total number of accused employees to ten in a scandal that has led to multiple convictions, lawsuits, and a $116 million federal settlement. [KPIX]
• After an elderly Pleasanton woman lost over $200,000 to a phone scam, police arrested a 35-year-old courier using a sting operation with fake cash during a planned pickup. [Bay Area News Group]

At the risk of sounding like Cathy at the height of her menstruation cycle, we just love us some raw cookie dough. Mmm. It even has its very own ice cream, which should attest to the pre-baked dessert's popularity. But, whenever we reached for the cookie dough bowl in our youth, our mother would gently remind us that raw cookie dough contains raw eggs. Raw eggs that would KILL US DEAD. So, when you eat the stuff, it's at your own risk.

Enter 18-year-old Jillian Collins from San Mateo. See, she is "among 65 people in 29 states who reported getting sick with E. coli after eating the raw dough made by Nestle USA Inc.," according to NBC Bay Area. And now, like any red-blooded American, she is suing Nestle for giving her a nightmarish case of the shits. And while people are freaking out at her for daring to sue the company while not claiming personal responsibilty, Nestle uses pasteurized eggs in their cocaine-habit-like-forming nuggets of dough. The stuff is made and marketed for eating as-is, not baking.

But what say you, righteous readers?

Oh, and here's a list of all recalled Nestle cookie products.

This just in! E.Coli, more or less, comes from fecal mater, not eggs (that's salmonella), so the plot thickens...