Union Bailout Update

NLRB Takes Commonsense Approach on Work Rule Enforcement
https://lri.link/36YKUTi

NLRB Provides Section 7 Guidance to Employers Regarding Drafting of Arbitration Agreements
https://lri.link/2Qdim2s

E-Filing Now Required in NLRB Cases
https://lri.link/2phIdew

NLRB To Review Protections For Vulgar, Racial And Sexually Offensive Comments
https://lri.link/2KhmoTo

DOL Breaks Record in Wage and Hour Enforcement – Time to Consider Self-Audits
https://lri.link/2X5D0ms

NLRB May Review Test for ‘Plant Clericals’ in Bargaining Units
https://lri.link/32A5PZm

Bill Aimed at Removing Authority from NLRB Introduced in the Senate
https://lri.link/2CAQRrh

Non-Union Workers Can’t Get Fair-Share Fee Refund After Janus
https://lri.link/2CBzNkW

Punching In: Labor Board Eyes End of Ethics Saga
https://lri.link/2X79AEx

NLRB Previews Planned Rule on Union Access to Employer Property
https://lri.link/36W1JOy

NLRB Tunes Up Appropriate Standard in Determining Bargaining Unit of Mechanics at Boeing
https://lri.link/2NEBm8f

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Laboring Toward 2020

AFL-CIO to host presidential forum
https://lri.link/32GRPgz

House Dems After Meeting with Richard Trumka: No Vote on Trump’s NAFTA if Worker Concerns Go Unaddressed
https://lri.link/2qLJWsL

How top 2020 Democrats are trying to win over union members
https://lri.link/32Cq2O1

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https://lri.link/2O6JJZi

Newsom has an organized labor problem
https://lri.link/2qaBCmv

Pro-Business House Democrat Loses Union Money as AOC Backs Rival
https://lri.link/2CF7C4R

Major Nurses’ Union Backs Bernie Sanders and His Push for ‘Medicare for All’
https://lri.link/2qVEhk8

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Union Staff Say They Were Told to Rein In Harassment Chatter
https://lri.link/32JyIlQ

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AI, Technology, and Labor

’Tis the Season for Surge Robots as Holiday Hiring Finds Automation
https://lri.link/2Kh9p49

A face-scanning algorithm increasingly decides whether you deserve the job
https://lri.link/34WiJm4

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Tech/Media Unions

YouTube Creators Want More From YouTube
https://lri.link/2O5n5QP

Hearst Magazines Staffers Unionizing Across Two Dozen Publications, Forming Giant for Writers Guild of America
https://lri.link/2qOmefm

NBC’s Digital Journalists Say They Are Forming a Union
https://lri.link/2NF5osw

A Fired Kickstarter Organizer Is Trying to Unionize Tech Workers Using Kickstarter
https://lri.link/34YBHsf

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It’s All Academic

Harvard Rejects Employee Unions’ Second Merger Attempt After Month of Silence
https://lri.link/2X9YrTo

Education Unions Report Sharp Declines in Membership, Revenue
https://lri.link/32Jq1b8

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Union Corruption

Another former UAW official pleads guilty to taking bribes
https://lri.link/2qQ5pAF

Auto Workers’ Union Chief Steps Aside as Corruption Probe Widens
https://lri.link/36Y4UoN

UAW’s Acting President Aims to Prevent Government Takeover
https://lri.link/32Fx6JO

Ex-UAW VP Ashton, who also served on GM board, charged in corruption probe
https://lri.link/2O1iXkY

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Gig Economy

California Threatens $1 Trillion Gig Economy With New Law
https://lri.link/34SGDie

Uber, Lyft, DoorDash launch a $90-million fight against California labor law
https://lri.link/2QdjZgA

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Union Pension Turmoil

Teamsters hire former Grassley aide to lobby on pensions
https://lri.link/2Oca3Bo

Coal bankruptcy will likely hit miner pensions
https://lri.link/2QfdklU

Metro Detroit union sank $100M+ into risky deals — now retirees could pay the price
https://lri.link/2qLLq6t

Unions again reject Pfizer pension plan reform
https://lri.link/2NHsMFK

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Manufacturing/Industrial

Pending Fiat Chrysler merger could complicate UAW talks
https://lri.link/2qLL1AP

GM could never offer strikers everything they wanted. Here's why
https://lri.link/2rzcshz

UAW-GM deal adds tech committee to address industry changes
https://lri.link/34PGADM

The Strike Is Over: UAW Members Ratify Deal With General Motors
https://lri.link/2KhH2Tt

Strike Will Cost G.M. Nearly $3 Billion in 2019 Earnings, Company Says
https://lri.link/34UvDAT

Buyer of G.M. Lordstown Plant Promises Union Work and Wages
https://lri.link/2NG1kbg

Ford and UAW reach quick deal to avoid a strike
https://lri.link/2NHWN8v

New Ford deal with UAW includes $6 billion in investments, thousands of jobs
https://lri.link/2rFALL1

Ford Workers Appear Set To Approve Labor Deal
https://lri.link/351m0Rb

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Healthcare

Nurses and hospital workers at Sacred Heart and other hospitals across the state are poised to go on strike
https://lri.link/34TGsDf

Unions, OHSU locked in workplace struggle
https://lri.link/2NHtliQ

Workers, Mount Sinai Hospital agree on a tentative contract
https://lri.link/2CDAGJT

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Minimum Rising

Some Target Workers Allege Decreased Hours After Minimum Wage Raise
https://lri.link/2KhowKS

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Right-to-Work

Pinnacle Foods Employee Wins National Labor Relations Board Decision Affirming Right to Remove UFCW Union Opposed by Workers
https://lri.link/2q6qAi3

Virginia Democrats Should Get Right to Work – by Repealing ‘Right to Work’
https://lri.link/2rwbin1

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Labor Around the World

Collective bargaining must be rebuilt in Europe
https://lri.link/2pXOwEq

Dutch Labor Unions Lose Over 100,000 Members in Two Years
https://lri.link/2qQ6acZ

Railway workers accuse longtime union boss of embezzling 1.5 billion pesos
https://lri.link/2q8T0YF

VW Labor Boss Vows to Block New Turkey Plant Amid Violence
https://lri.link/2O6Sqmf

UFCW Canada challenges Ontario’s exclusion of cannabis workers from the right to unionize
https://lri.link/32LTrpn

Labor unions turn their back on US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement
https://lri.link/2pgIVsq