Union Bailout Update Overtime Regulation Will Stifle Flexibility and Opportunity for Workers – 7/23
http://lri.link/1h3MdWu

Independent Contractor and Exempt Employee Classification Review Should Include Joint-Employer Status – 7/28
http://lri.link/1DNEyVP

Noel Canning Wrinkle Leaves Tenuous Worker Discipline Rule – 7/31
http://lri.link/1Nr8vvd

D.C. Circuit Rules NLRB Complaints Issued By Former Acting General Counsel Are Voidable (But Not Void) – 8/10
http://lri.link/1N43v2k

NLRB tips: NLRB assault on precedent continues undiminished – 7/29
http://lri.link/1UDmhPB

NLRB Backs Up Dishonest Employee – 8/4
http://lri.link/1ILq7P7

Labor board finds fault in confidentiality rule at Maine T-Mobile facility – 8/6
http://lri.link/1L6orWk

Labor board: Employer cannot say union could hurt business – 8/6
http://lri.link/1J4PfDT

NLRB Wants Employer to Pay Union’s Bargaining Expenses – Aggressive Push For Broader Use of “Enhanced Remedies” Continues – 8/7
http://lri.link/1HHi0Bh

NLRB Protects a New Kind of Employee Activity: Worrying About Your Job – 7/29
http://lri.link/1UDmtye

NLRB: Filing an FLSA Collective Action is Protected Concerted Activity – 7/31
http://lri.link/1IHvrVT

NLRB Judge Decides Employer Not Required to Agree To Union Security or Dues Checkoff Provisions in Initial Collective Bargaining Agreement – 8/6
http://lri.link/1N43LP2

Will critic of labor board get appointment to serve on it? – 8/7
http://lri.link/1DKWCAq

Bill would allow governors to end port slowdowns – 8/7
http://lri.link/1J4Puz0

NLRB Official Blocks Unionization of New School’s Graduate-Student Employees – 7/31
http://lri.link/1WjBPtD

Hatch, Alexander, Price Introduce Bicameral Employees Rights Act – 7/27
http://lri.link/1gAPzzp

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UFC Responds to Culinary Union’s Thinly Veiled Exploitation of Fighters – 8/8
http://lri.link/1MkN5kN

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Progressives Love Labor Unions, Until This One Thing Happens – 8/11
http://lri.link/1NaNaIv

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Vice Editorial Staff to be Represented by Writers Guild – Unions Continue New Media Push – 8/10
http://lri.link/1gAPLym

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Lather, Rinse, Repeat – 8/5 *Card Check a topic of debate in presidential campaign
http://lri.link/1TrtQf1

Unions, Planned Parenthood Exchange Donations, Political Cash – 8/10 About $1.5 million in the past five years
http://lri.link/1Ki6deB

Labor union bosses want a president who will ‘rewrite the rules’ – 8/12
http://lri.link/1Nr9jQw

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FLETC Contractor: Union under investigation – 7/29 Omni Corp. alleges that the National Labor Relations Board is looking into strike at facility
http://lri.link/1DNFuJZ

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Competition Didn't Sink A&P — Its Unions Did – 7/21 *Supermarket chain going out of business
http://lri.link/1hyAXB9

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Fight for $15

University of California System Set to Raise Minimum Wage to $15 an Hour – 7/22
http://lri.link/1DNFzgF

City of San Antonio Proposes Raising Minimum Wage To $13 For City Employees – 7/31
http://lri.link/1L6xx2s

Minimum wage hike backlash coming from both sides – 7/25 * New York
http://lri.link/1DKX4P9

$15 Is Too Much Even For Those Who Support A Higher Minimum Wage – 8/9
http://lri.link/1UDmMZT

Who checks minimum wage cheats? – 8/9 Labor Department only enforces federal rate of $7.25/hour
http://lri.link/1hyB0Nq

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Right-to-Work

Can Government Unions Demand Your Money? The Supreme Court Will Decide Next Term. *Auto Workers Southern Regional Director supports Right-to-Work – 7/27
http://lri.link/1L6pxBa

Michigan Union Boomerang – 7/29 *State workers will now have the right not to pay union fees.
http://lri.link/1f8qr1U

In Kentucky, local governments test limits of labor laws – 8/4 *Unions challenging counties that have enacted right-to-work laws of their own
http://lri.link/1MkNxzs

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Union Corruption

PEF report reveals questionable expense payments – 7/22 *Public Employees Federation
http://lri.link/1DNFU32

State's Largest Teachers Union Fails to Disclose 30 Percent of Its Income – 8/5 *MEA leaves $38.3M of income to speculation
http://lri.link/1MkNEuL

Boston Ex-Teamster Pleads Guilty to Unemployment Fraud – 8/3
http://lri.link/1ILrL37

Former NC employees union leader accused of fraud – 8/3
http://lri.link/1L6xJ1u

Former labor union bookkeeper pleads guilty to theft – 8/7
http://lri.link/1TruUzp

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SEIU Watch

Unprofessional – 8/5 An adjunct professor who opposed unionization criticized SEIU’s ignorance, divisiveness, one-size-fits-all organizing tactics, and unprofessional communications style.
http://lri.link/1IZOKqv

The Union That Rules New York – 8/8 How 1199SEIU, New York’s ultra-powerful hospital and nursing home employees’ union, took over the Empire State.
http://lri.link/1h3NSeH

SEIU Critic: SEIU-UHW Spent $35 Million On Calif. Hospital Deal, Produced Zero New Members – 7/30
http://lri.link/1PlrSXR

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Unions Around The World

Union organiser and former NRL player John Lomax charged with blackmail – 7/24
http://lri.link/1DKXzbU

Why the ACT can't afford to be without an ICAC – 7/31 – Overview of Royal Commission on CFMEU, Bill Shorten, need for independent commission against union corruption
http://lri.link/1ILsIbM

Jerusalem light rail employees return to work after strike – 8/2
http://lri.link/1TrvUU8

Travel disruption for thousands due to transport strikes – 8/5 *From the Thames to the Aegean, airport travellers face cancellation and disruption on Wednesday due to strikes by transport workers.
http://lri.link/1TrxmWT

Londoners Break Out Skateboards, Scooters, Penny Farthings as Tube Strike Snarls City – 8/6
http://lri.link/1L6rJc3