Subject: Labor Relations INK Links December 2018

Labor Relations INK Links
December 2018
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

The New Federal Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Would Remedy Decades of Injustice
https://lri.link/2rxMUhx

The NLRB’s New ULP Investigation Procedures: How Will They Affect Your Cases?
https://lri.link/2EqHKfX

NLRB's new strategic plan seeks to cut backlog, speed up claims resolution
https://lri.link/2G98O4W

Union Not Entitled to Information About How Employer Spends Money From Tax Cut, NLRB General Counsel Rules
https://lri.link/2EepVjn

Joint-Employer Rule Makes Headway at the NLRB
https://lri.link/2EiQ28H

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New Report Describes Dirty Union ‘Corporate Campaign’ Tactics
https://lri.link/2C9gmAU

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Industry groups challenge NYC predictive scheduling law
https://lri.link/2Gq4G0P

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McDonald’s Franchisees See Strength in Numbers; Some See a Union
https://lri.link/2UGlX94

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Deal in San Francisco Ends Nationwide Marriott Strikes
https://lri.link/2BgPZaa

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Big Labor’s 2019 agenda will ignore rank-and-file’s interests
https://lri.link/2Gh6XLt

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New York Magazine's Staff Is Unionizing
https://lri.link/2BhlT6I

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SEIU Watch

Labor group puts $1 million into Preckwinkle mayoral campaign fund
https://lri.link/2QVDOd7

Dem Campaigns Paid SEIU-Owned Bank $2.2 Million in Fees, Interest This Cycle
https://lri.link/2C8ingt

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It’s All Academic

Chicago charter teachers reach deal to end strike, with agreement on protection for immigrants
https://lri.link/2LdDoJC

SEIU Certified to Bargain on Behalf of ISU Graduate Assistants
https://lri.link/2yWnEFY

SEIU withdraws from Vanderbilt, drops effort to unionize NTT faculty in College of Arts and Science
https://lri.link/2GfNnPX

Graduate Students Organize Outside the National Labor Relations Board's Jurisdiction
https://lri.link/2EqksXr

Iowa College Becomes Battleground For Student Worker Unionization
https://lri.link/2Cb9seq

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Union Pension Turmoil

Understanding The Central States Pension Plan's Tale Of Woe
https://lri.link/2C7B6Zt

Actually, Central States' Pension Plan Is Fully Funded
https://lri.link/2ElkPSa

Illinois Supreme Court ruling outlines problem
https://lri.link/2QuF870

Treasury OKs Benefits Reductions for Teamsters Pension
https://lri.link/2C92G8L

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Fight for $15

Impact of the Fight for $15: $68 Billion in Raises, 22 Million Workers
https://lri.link/2SH0OcT

NYC becomes first major city to set minimum wage for Uber, Lyft drivers
https://lri.link/2QTHVpI

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Right-to-Work

California Finally Surrenders; Certifies Employees’ Overwhelming Vote to Dump Union
https://lri.link/2RUSypN

Feds Won’t Let Bus Drivers Ditch Their Union, So the Workers are Suing
https://lri.link/2QyaiuA

Workers Sue National Labor Relations Board Over Rule Blocking Them from Exercising Right to Remove Union
https://lri.link/2QQC6cJ

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Fiat Chrysler to build Jeep in revived Detroit plant
https://lri.link/2Et8igp

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Labor Around the World

Macron, Confronting Yellow Vest Protests in France, Promises Relief
https://lri.link/2PyV42U

Ex-Qld union boss buried docs, court told
https://lri.link/2BbZBTO
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