Union Bailout Update
More than eight million workers will be left behind by the Trump overtime proposal
https://lri.link/2VAYohH
U.S. Department of Labor Issues Proposal to Update Regular Rate Regulations
https://lri.link/2Uaia2b
U.S. Moves to Limit Wage Claims Against Chains Like McDonald’s
https://lri.link/2P244ik
Truckers’ Loss in Calif. Contractor Fight Won’t End Legal Battle
https://lri.link/2VBiYPd
Labor Department Official Resigns Amid Possible Ethics Probe (1)
https://lri.link/2D7w0Nd
It’s Perfectly Clear Once Again— NLRB Limits “Perfectly Clear” Successor Exception
https://lri.link/2uZmc3m
Tell everybody: Confidentiality clauses may violate employees’ section 7 rights
https://lri.link/2uWqQyW
Labor Board: Is Union’s Inclusion of Weingarten Rights Statement in Collective Bargaining Agreement Coercive?
https://lri.link/2UOxhme
Proposed NLRB Election Rule Changes Expected This Spring
https://lri.link/2D6uZ80
NLRB loses field staff
https://lri.link/2X359sS
Union to receive equal time in second election due to ULPs
https://lrionline.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/NLRB-Sysco-2nd-Election-040419.pdf
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Labor unions wade into 2020 race with caution after being burned in 2016
https://lri.link/2Gh6irp
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Organizing to Win a Green New Deal
https://lri.link/2P2lKKK
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How Union Membership Has Changed in Recent Years
https://lri.link/2Kr6cld
UAW membership dropped by 35,000 in 2018
https://lri.link/2UuDUL3
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Will Trump Labor Department Follow Through on Preventing Union Corruption?
https://lri.link/2GhtohL
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Tech/Media
Will AI Destroy More Jobs Than It Creates Over the Next Decade?
https://lri.link/2Uu1cku
Better Data Needed to Assess and Plan for Effects of Advanced Technologies on Jobs
https://lri.link/2Ibh8RR
The Future of Work: Five Developing Trends for Technology, Media, and Telecommunications Employers
https://lri.link/2G5T9QN
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It’s All Academic
California’s broken charter school law has defied reform. Can Newsom break the gridlock?
https://lri.link/2IsRebF
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Union Pension Turmoil
PBGC director nominee approved by Senate Finance Committee
https://lri.link/2GflDJ6
Rockford-area Teamsters ask Congress to save multiemployer pension funds
https://lri.link/2KtwLWM
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Healthcare
Election Brings Initial Loss for SEIU at Kaiser
https://lri.link/2Ktx8AE
Kaiser Permanente to Renew Talks With Unions Representing 84,000 Workers
https://lri.link/2G4ImGl
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Minimum Rising
Google to Require Benefits, Minimum Wage for Contractors
https://lri.link/2GedHaS
Gov. Lujan Grisham signs minimum wage increase into law
https://lri.link/2GedTqC
Maryland General Assembly overrides Gov. Hogan's vetoes of $15 minimum wage, comptroller's oversight
https://lri.link/2Uu4pAo
McDonald’s Will No Longer Lobby Against Federal, State and Local Minimum-Wage Increases
https://lri.link/2UKS8Hg
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Right-to-Work
After the Supreme Court Said Unions Can’t Force Non-Members to Pay Dues, Almost All of Them Stopped
https://lri.link/2Kr6JDJ
Lujan Grisham signs bill invalidating counties’ right-to-work laws
https://lri.link/2Is7zO2
UAW Bosses Back Down, Will Refund $26,000 in Forced Union Dues Seized after Right to Work Law Was in Effect
https://lri.link/2Is7Hx0
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Teamsters top boss tries to quell rebellion by Mickey, Goofy
https://lri.link/2G4IuFP
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Whistlin’ Dixie
Volkswagen at Chattanooga workers petition NLRB to join union
https://lri.link/2P2kqr9
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Transportation & Logistics
California FedEx Freight Drivers Move to Cut Ties With Teamsters
https://lri.link/2Irpzb9
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Ex-UAW Vice President Norwood Jewell pleads guilty in training center scandal
https://lri.link/2v0JiX2
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Labor Around the World
Mexico Beefs Up Labor Bill Amid Speaker Pelosi's Nafta Threat
https://lri.link/2IoE8fD
Rare overtime protest by China tech workers goes viral
https://lri.link/2WZrVlF