Subject: Labor Relations INK Links May 2021

Labor Relations Institute
May 2021
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

NLRB: Employer’s “Hard-Bargaining” Proposals—By Themselves—Did Not Violate Duty to Bargain in Good Faith
https://lri.link/3fdtqat

NLRB to Hear Union Objections to Vote at Amazon Warehouse
https://lri.link/2Rf5uM0

NLRB stays out of general counsel fracas
https://lri.link/3hnjUV9

NLRB Declines to Make It Easier to Withdraw Union Recognition
https://lri.link/3ybv2dt

Trade economist Thea Lee named U.S. Labor Dept international chief
https://lri.link/3bnRJBy

Biden stakes claim to being America’s most pro-union president ever
https://lri.link/3tKTCi7

President Biden Announces White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment
https://lri.link/3tLFvZP

SEIU launches $3M ad buy to promote American Jobs Plan
https://lri.link/3bo5Hn7

Senate Democrats announce $73B clean bus plan
https://lri.link/33Cz7cG

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The PRO Act: Upending the Labor Landscape Webinar from Cornell University, featuring Tom Perez
https://lri.link/3eHe7HX

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Covid-19

Deployment of COVID-19 Vaccines In A Unionized Workforce Frequently Asked Questions
https://lri.link/3w1Dk5V

Covid-19 Workplace Safety Rule Now at White House for Review (1)
https://lri.link/3uJZitL

Missouri cancels $300 federal COVID unemployment benefit, cites labor shortage
https://lri.link/3yatznZ

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 Tech/Media Unions

Journalists at The Kansas City Star are unionizing
https://lri.link/33IbUFY

Gannett papers in New Jersey vote to unionize; other union news
https://lri.link/3fg2Ygv

Record number of journalists unionize during COVID pandemic
https://lri.link/3bnSHha

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 Union Corruption

Brooklyn Carpenters President Convicted in Bribery Conspiracy
https://lri.link/3y7QCQb

Michigan Health Care Union President Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement
https://lri.link/3fgQCVf

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It’s All Academic

Harvard and Grad Student Union Settle Grievance Over Union Dues Deductions
https://lri.link/3hpeDfE

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Gig Economy

Truckers fall under California gig economy law, court says
https://lri.link/3flfuLU

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Healthcare

Operators of 33 nursing homes face strike threat from 3,400 workers who want $20 per hour, PPE stockpiled
https://lri.link/3hpe0Ts

Lamont offers $280M to nursing homes, workers to avert strike
https://lri.link/3w7y5BR

4,000 Allina Health workers schedule May 10 strike
https://lri.link/3bo9HDM

More than 2,000 Connecticut group home workers prepared to strike beginning May 21
https://lri.link/3ho4AaA

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Logistics/Manufacturing

United Auto Workers presses GM, Ford on unionizing battery plants
https://lri.link/3uMaJRI

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 Alt-Labor

The Alt-Labor Chronicles: America’s Worker Centers
https://lri.link/3hnjbmT

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Minimum Rising

Biden Orders $15 Minimum Wage on Federal Contracts by March
https://lri.link/3hnUGGc

Chipotle to hike wages, debut referral bonuses in attempt to hire 20,000 workers
https://lri.link/3y4YXnI

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 Labor Around the World

First USMCA labor complaint filed against auto supplier in Mexico
https://lri.link/3y7MJKW
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