Subject: Labor Relations INK Links - August 2016

Labor Relations INK Links
August 2016
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

How Massachusetts’ New Equal Pay Law Impacts Employers – 8/8
http://lri.link/2aX6QUa

Third Circuit Backs NLRB in FedEx Freight Unit Ruling – 8/10
http://lri.link/2bmtwLO

Federal ALJ Says Ban on Conducting Personal Business in Handbook Violated NLRA Rights – 8/9
http://lri.link/2bmuKqf

Employer's Role in Decertification Efforts Continue to Receive Intense Scrutiny – 8/8
http://lri.link/2aLd2v6

Enterprise Must Reimburse Teamsters Local for Union Dues – 8/8
http://lri.link/2blxruZ

Buyer Beware – NLRB Decision Creates New Risks for Purchasers of Union Operations – 8/3
http://lri.link/2aX6Y66

NLRB To Start Collecting Employer Data Under DOL’s Controversial “Blacklisting” Rule – 8/3
http://lri.link/2aLc0z4

NLRB Takes Issue with Noncompetes and Employment At-Will – 8/2
http://lri.link/2aLcjKb

Sour Note – Musicians Are Employees, Not Independent Contractors, NLRB Tells Theater Company – 8/3
http://lri.link/2blxxCR

NLRB Requires Specificity in Management-Rights Clauses – 7/28
http://lri.link/2bbRz3o

Your Agency Temps Can Now Form A Bargaining Unit With Your Own Employees – 7/26
http://www.eremedia.com/tlnt/your-agency-temps-can-now-form-a-bargaining-unit-with-your-own-employees/

Overruling Precedent, NLRB Finds Violation May Be Established Without Specific Unfair Labor Practice Complaint Allegation – 7/28
http://lri.link/2aN3EHp

Court dismisses U.S. Chamber’s suit over Seattle’s Uber union law — but fight is likely to continue – 8/9
http://lri.link/2aR0ZSM

National Labor Relations Board Extends Reach of Browning-Ferris Joint Employment – 8/8
http://lri.link/2bbQ9Gp

Subway, DOL Partner to Improve FLSA Compliance – 8/9
http://lri.link/2ba2UQp

Can Your Corporate Social Responsibility Policy Make You a Joint-Employer With Your Suppliers? The NLRB May Find That It Does – 8/4
http://lri.link/2b16zfT

Labor Regulators Set Sights on Microsoft – 7/20
http://lri.link/2b2XNhr

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Amid Strike Rumores, State’s Website Shows Illinois AFSCME Workers How to Opt out of Union – 8/5
http://lri.link/2aPykgK

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Getting informed about unions is key to engaging workers in global supply chains – 8/11
http://lri.link/2aQe62A

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Can Technology Help Organized Labor Strengthen Workers’ Rights? – 8/3
http://lri.link/2aQdGcu

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Are big labor bosses giving you less than you bargained for? – 7/15
http://lri.link/2b16DMH

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Labor feud slowed effort to clean air at ports, according to pollution data – 8/11
http://lri.link/2aQKR0J

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SEIU Watch

The Politics of SEIU Local 73 Being Placed Under Trusteeship – 8/9
http://lri.link/2aX895j

Rauner Vetoes SEIU-Backed Bills That Would Have Cost Over $100M Annually – 7/29
http://lri.link/2aPAk8C

AFSCME Approves Resolution for Possible Merger with SEIU – 8/4
http://lri.link/2aPkx7f

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Icahn: Union Got Taj Mahal Casino Workers to Kill Own Jobs – 8/4
http://lri.link/2aFEb73

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Unions on the Campaign Trail

Union members protest before Trump’s Detroit speech – 8/8
http://lri.link/2aLd6Ld

Kaine flip flops on right-to-work – 8/4
http://lri.link/2blywD6

Wikileaks Emails Show Teachers’ Union and DNC Tried To Tie Trump To Bullying – 8/12
http://lri.link/2bm8CNw

Labor's Stockholm Syndrome: Why Unions Must Stop Backing Anti-Labor Candidates in the Primaries – 8/3
http://lri.link/2bmggHz

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Auto Workers

Lear talking about moving jobs from Mexico to Detroit – 8/10
http://lri.link/2baeEiS

UAW Ramps Up Pressure to Organize Mississippi Plant – 8/10
http://lri.link/2aQdKJb

Hyundai supplier alleges union scheme – 7/29
http://lri.link/2bka7f5

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Why we’re about the see the largest prison strike in history – 8/11
http://lri.link/2bbLK4K

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Teamster Beat

Union: Lockout Ending At HDI – 8/3
http://lri.link/2bmugQY

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Whistlin’ Dixie

With new US factory, Daimler skirts tariffs...and unions – 7/29
http://lri.link/2aFECOQ

French official visits Mississippi to back union at Nissan – 7/26
http://lri.link/2aOUyth

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Right-to-Work

Temporary injunction issued blocking 'right-to-work' law – 8/10
http://lri.link/2bk7JVD

WV Supreme Court likely to take up right-to-work – 8/11
http://lri.link/2b30FLB

Schimel to unions (again): Right-to-work is still the law – 8/1
http://lri.link/2aX8AN7

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Fight for $15

Cleveland council rejects $15 minimum wage, backers won't back down – 8/10
http://lri.link/2aX8Cod

Baltimore City Council to vote on raising minimum wage – 8/7
http://lri.link/2aPz9pK

Minimum wage protesters temporarily shut down Mpls. council hearing – 8/3
http://lri.link/2aNGUGU

Legal challenges to minimum wage hikes – 8/3
http://lri.link/2aLdwRO

Why raising the minimum wage in Seattle did little to help workers, according to a new study – 7/29
http://lri.link/2b2xcmW

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Labor Around the World

Scottish economists and trade unions welcome post-Brexit stimulus package – 8/11
http://lri.link/2aPiJLd

Railway unions co-ordinating wave of strikes over the summer to 'maximise' impact – 8/10
http://lri.link/2bk8cr2

UK North Sea unions plan more strikes over pay cuts – 8/10
http://lri.link/2blTwef

*** Detroit’s Big Three to Start Contract Talks With Canadian Auto Workers – 8/10
http://lri.link/2aPyAfT

Unifor president says no Detroit 3 deals without Canadian plant investment – 8/8
http://lri.link/2blUuY2
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