Subject: Labor Relations INK Links April 2019

Labor Relations INK Links
April 2019
Here is your monthly summary of relevant news items since the last issue of INK, delivered on the 2nd Thursday of each month. The full edition of Labor Relations INK will arrive on the 4th Thursday of the month.
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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
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