Union Bailout Update

Study: They Spend Millions, but Minimal Transparency Required for Government Union Finances 

  http://lri.link/1Cs5QQY

NLRB Has Cleared Up Cases after Supreme Court’s Invalidation of 2012 Recess Appointments 

  http://lri.link/1NRI4Pg

NLRB moves to assert jurisdiction over religious educational institutions

  http://lri.link/1NWsqTm

Revival of M.B. Sturgis? NLRB Signals Expansion of Multiemployer Bargaining Units 

  http://lri.link/1dONwWt

Kline, Walberg Statement on Proposed Overtime Rule 

  http://lri.link/1IMMwPO

Stuck in reverse: NLRB now rules that employers may have to produce witness statements to unions 

  http://lri.link/1KROz6K

Bizarre Sixth Circuit Decision Further Confuses NLRB's Jurisdiction Over Tribal Enterprises 

  http://lri.link/1HlKIYH

GOP seeks to block new NLRB rules through funding 

  http://lri.link/1dONE8z

Surely a tugboat captain is a supervisor under the NLRA, right? Not necessarily! 

  http://lri.link/1SbojU2

Defying economic reality 

  http://lri.link/1Mio5sv

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Pressure to Cut Employee Benefits Threatens Labor Peace Looming ‘Cadillac tax’ on health plans, corporate pension burdens likely to complicate talks with unions 

  http://lri.link/1J6xqQT

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Alt-Labor

Union organizing machine targets St. Louis, Kansas City 

  http://lri.link/1HitgHC

Mass. home health workers win wage hike to $15 an hour 

  http://lri.link/1RmBc2l

Union Fires Walmart Campaigners As Focus Shifts To Media After firing two top organizers of the Our Walmart campaign, the United Food and Commercial Workers union will focus on media tactics in an “aggressive new strategy.”

  http://lri.link/1J6xwIg

Minimum wage advocates struggle to walk the talk 

  http://lri.link/1SboqyL

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Social Media Spotlight

Gawker unionization fight: A symbol of union irrelevancy in today's economy

  http://lri.link/1HQm9te

Salon Writers and Editorial Staff Demand Representation by The News Guild – Union Organizing in Electronic Media Continues to Grow 

  http://lri.link/1fruSpo

Harper’s staff to decide union fate 

  http://lri.link/1JWZMQq

Where There Aren't Unions, Can Online Platforms Organize Workers?

  http://lri.link/1Hfsvg6

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Right-to-Work   Supreme Court to hear California teacher's suit -- a 'life or death' case for unions 

  http://lri.link/1eJU8pZ

NLRB backs off -- for now -- from undermining state right-to-work laws – 7/8

  http://lri.link/1HlLTqV

UAW vs. autoworkers: Who are the freeloaders? 

  http://lri.link/1LYKyO1

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Whistlin’ Dixie

Hyundai Motors America in Fountain Valley Gets Unwelcome Visit by United Auto Workers 

  http://lri.link/1KYosJX

How Mexico could color UAW talks Low-cost labor a key concern of union and Detroit 3 

  http://lri.link/1Cs5FFG

OSEA to help build labor movement in the Deep South 

  http://lri.link/1HQJ7Pf

5 contentious issues in upcoming contract talks between United Auto Workers and Detroit 3 

  http://lri.link/1dOOfHc

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SEIU Watch

Leak of Dave Regan's Attack Memo Came from Inside SEIU-UHW

  http://lri.link/1dOOjqG

Northampton behavioral health agency says it will remain in operation during any strike 

  http://lri.link/1SboRco

Decertification Effort Underway 

  http://lri.link/1D3uYIS

Hidden Camera Captures SEIU Representative Misleading Providers on Union Membership 

  http://lri.link/1Hftq0c

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Teamster Beat

Teamsters, Airgas employees on West Side, reject contract

  http://lri.link/1LUoROq

A big crook, the Kennedys and more! The lurid tale of Seattle’s Dave Beck and the Teamsters union 

  http://lri.link/1UFWUxA

Teamsters pack EVSC school board meeting 

  http://lri.link/1frw8ZJ

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International News

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa 

  http://lri.link/1frwbVj

GM Korea workers approve strike over pay, output 

  http://lri.link/1NWuevy

Protesters march on ACT CFMEU office as royal commission start date approaches 

  http://lri.link/1J6yILT

Union financial transparency comes to Canada 

  http://lri.link/1dOOxOt

Kathy Jackson went on eight-year spending spree on HSU money, court hears

  http://lri.link/1UFXnzy