Subject: Labor Relations INK Links November 2020

Labor Relations INK Links
November 2020
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 chair will ask DOJ to settle dispute with Democrats over ethics policy
https://lri.link/36jMkIc

NLRB failed to explain why it approved separate bargaining units at Chicago hotel - D.C. Circuit
https://lri.link/3lszrCk

Strictly Legal: Media policy may violate NLRA
https://lri.link/3ll1dR6

Google Worker Secrecy Agreements to Face California Labor Lawsuit
https://lri.link/35jDdYQ

Labor Board Asks for Briefing on ‘Scabby the Rat’
https://lri.link/3lq4kaj

NLRB Issues New Ruling On Mail-In Ballots And Union Elections During Pandemic
https://lri.link/32zSbZc

NLRB At Work: Case backlog drops to lowest level in 40 years
https://lri.link/3eP7UrX

Executive Order Bans Certain Diversity Trainings for Federal Contractors — May Also Impact Private Employers
https://lri.link/32vU7le

NLRB Chairman Responds to Congressional Questions about Ethics Program
https://lri.link/3njer11

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Laboring Toward 2020

Biden Will Need Congressional Approval In Order To Come Through On Most Of His Labor-Related Campaign Promises
https://lri.link/3lhxPuS

The Future of Workplace Law Under President-Elect Joe Biden
https://lri.link/38xo5Jq

Punching In: Previewing Biden’s Labor Secretary Sweepstakes
https://lri.link/2UhSwLo

Bernie Sanders makes a play for Biden Labor secretary
https://lri.link/2IiXFAF

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Covid-19

Southwest Warns Workers of First Layoffs in Company History
https://lri.link/3ndv1iR

Coca-Cola plant employees protest, demanding better health care agreement in midst of pandemic
https://lri.link/3lq1AKe

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Tech/Media Unions

Staffers at Bustle Digital Group, which owns Nylon, Mic and Elite Daily, announce intention to unionize
https://lri.link/3eOZ1P4

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Organizing

Portland museum faces unionizing attempt, and questions about who can be part of it
https://lri.link/3njqPhP

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Union Corruption

Public-Sector Unions Resorting to Forgery to Preserve Their Monopoly
https://lri.link/3n8t7jA

Laborers Business Manager in West Virginia Sentenced for Embezzlement
https://lri.link/3eQ08hN

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UAW-GM Center for Human Resources, corporatist body at the center of union corruption scandal, sold for $34 million
https://lri.link/3knrWLi

UAW-GM training center in Detroit sells for secret price
https://lri.link/36vdhsA

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Gig Economy

Prop 22 just passed in California — now what?
https://lri.link/3nfLOSq

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Healthcare

‘A year from hell’: The war inside the state’s largest nurses union
https://lri.link/2Uhp5sT

Good policy or ballot blackmail? Union keeps taking its fights with health industry to voters
https://lri.link/35iRHZ8

Health care worker unions sue Scalia, OSHA for shelving infectious diseases standard
https://lri.link/3nfRR9C

National Right to Work Foundation Issues Special Legal Notice for Tenet Healthcare Employees Impacted by Planned SEIU Boss Strike
https://lri.link/3njdd5V

New York’s largest nurses union rocked by internal political fights
https://lri.link/2UjMf1D

Trinity Health nurses in Pennsylvania to strike Nov. 17
https://lri.link/32Rtwzt

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Logistics/Manufacturing

Labor's evolving support of a clean energy transition
https://lri.link/3eN2gqv

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Right-to-Work

SPFPA union will pay thousands of dollars in refunds of dues illegally taken from guards to end federal Labor Board case against the union
https://lri.link/2UeiNdD

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Labor Around the World

How Foodsters United Is Organizing Canada’s Gig Economy
https://lri.link/2Uls7Mw
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