Subject: Labor Relations INK Links October 2017

Labor Relations INK Links
October 2017
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

Trump Revokes EO Creating Federal Labor Councils
http://lri.link/2yfbFll

Trump labor board nominee vows to protect right to 'refrain' from joining union
http://lri.link/2hDCkQW

NLRB About-Face Highlights Lack of Reasoning on the Class Action “Right” It Seeks to Assert
http://lri.link/2g6KdOy

Quickie Election Rules, Thumbs Up Or Down?: Board Member Kaplan Again Says No Comment
http://lri.link/2ycbOZ1

Punching In: Who is the NLRB's Mystery Candidate?
http://lri.link/2i5ev8y

NLRB Dodges Massive Budget Cuts, But Some Predict Changes Still on the Horizon
http://lri.link/2i5jSEz

NLRB Clears Nonunion Hiring Rule After 1st Circ. Flip
http://lri.link/2gAvoUZ

New California Law Ups Ante on Retaliation Claims
http://lri.link/2gzCysx

Top 10 Targets For Reversal
http://lri.link/2gycez1

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21st century unions
http://lri.link/2yHrTqf

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Charges Against Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones Filed to the National Labor Relations Board
http://lri.link/2xAbjZv

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A Cable Workers Strike Grows Increasingly Bitter
http://lri.link/2yk63bb

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SEIU Watch

Personal Care Attendants Demand Dayton Decertify Union
http://lri.link/2kKiTe7

SEIU’s intimidation campaign against Minnesota healthcare workers.
http://lri.link/2hDkv4o

Above The Law
http://lri.link/2yeZMM7

Guest Opinion: Union has changed its focus
http://lri.link/2ydWV65

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It’s All Academic

These Iowa students want their college to be the 'most unionized campus in the country'
http://lri.link/2yI0vZy

SUGSE, U. maintain position on unionization after new NLRB nomination
http://lri.link/2kIGfAB

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USW challenges Kumho position on unionization
http://lri.link/2yjwpdm

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Mass Nurses Association to feds: BMC lockout is unfair
http://lri.link/2xB0Ub0

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ILWU’s supervisor unionizing push expands
http://lri.link/2i8jk0B

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Teamster Beat   

Feds: Ex-Teamsters boss' extortion of Chicago film studio grows to $325,000 and began 2 years earlier
http://lri.link/2hCzqvO

NLRB Revokes Union Certification at FedEx Freight Terminal
http://lri.link/2gAhItg

Teamsters Local 25 strike surpasses 50-day mark in Canton
http://lri.link/2yHnwvB

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Fight for $15

Target to raise its minimum hourly wage to $15 by the end of 2020
http://lri.link/2kIX4eN

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Right-to-Work

Judge Blocks Enforcement Of Right To Work In West Virginia; Supreme Court Thrashes Her Ruling
http://lri.link/2gf6TzP

Court again sides with unions in `right to work' dispute
http://lri.link/2zj3i8p

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Auto Workers

Fiat Chrysler, UAW officials accused of laundering money through hospice
http://lri.link/2ziAlcS

Union stepping up efforts to organize autoworkers in Alliston
http://lri.link/2gyBk0I

Detroit Three's to lose dominance of North American auto output in 2017: IHS
http://lri.link/2g5UOsK

GM to ramp up Equinox production in Mexico, Unifor says
http://lri.link/2ydBHrn

GM to Idle Detroit Car Factory Amid Slow Demand
http://lri.link/2hEtwdt

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Labor Around the World

European Regional Meeting Of ILO Starts In İstanbul With Labour Unions’ Massive Boycott
http://lri.link/2g5dBVc

Europe’s On-Demand Economy Draws Complaints. And Regulators.
http://lri.link/2yjwTjE

MACRON FURY: Strike of 5 MILLION angry workers could bring France to a standstil
http://lri.link/2yjzMAT

Macron Leans on Crack Team to Face Down Unions in Reform Push
http://lri.link/2wPQ9C9

Theresa May is officially facing a ‘winter of discontent’ as one of the UK’s largest unions votes to strike
http://lri.link/2xADojs



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