Subject: Labor Relations INK Links September 2019

Labor Relations INK Links
September 2019
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

Board Invites Briefs Regarding NLRA Protection for Profane or Offensive Statements
https://lri.link/2kdYkqU

Do you use the FLSA’s fluctuating workweek method? Do you pay bonuses too? You’ll want to read this.
https://lri.link/2kDN1sc

Federal labor board overturns Boeing SC union bid
https://lri.link/2k8DI3a

Velox Express: NLRB holds independent contractor misclassification does not itself violate the NLRA
https://lri.link/2lOKzz7

NLRB Members Lean Toward Possible Easing of Restrictions on Off-Duty Employee Access Rules
https://lri.link/2kDNafe

NLRB Announces Three Proposed Rules, ULPs May No Longer Block an Election
https://lri.link/2kfKtQY

NLRB Memo Clarifies Rules for Workplace Social Media Policies
https://lri.link/2kqMslz

NLRB — Employers Facing Litigation Can Modify Existing Arbitration Agreements to Include Class Action Waivers, Penalize Employees Who Refuse to Sign
https://lri.link/2kDMRkA

Trump Wage Chief Overhauls Agency, Internal Documents Reveal (1)
https://lri.link/2mbOzKB

Trump’s Labor Department Just Moved To Bring More Transparency To Labor Unions
https://lri.link/2mb2aSg

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Laboring Towards 2020

Democrats Labor to Stem Flow of Union Voters to Trump
https://lri.link/2mb29xG

Democrats’ plan for a nationwide giveaway to public-sector unions
https://lri.link/2lP3DNG

Joe Biden Can’t Count On the Union Vote
https://lri.link/2lNzXk2

The big new plan to save unions endorsed by Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg, explained
https://lri.link/2kDMLJK

I read every 2020 frontrunner’s labor platform so you didn’t have to
https://lri.link/2lHi7zs

What unions want in 2020
https://lri.link/2mb23Gk

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Report On Labor Union Movement Finds Gradual Membership Decline
https://lri.link/2lNAjam

Labor unions need to find a new bargaining chip
https://lri.link/2kfKcxq

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AI, Technology and Labor

Why Fast Food Is the Ticking Time Bomb of Job Automation
https://lri.link/2m55u13

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Tech/Media Unions

New Yorker Fact-Checkers Win Employee Status After Union Push
https://lri.link/2m9RUtt

Google Contractors Are Unionizing With a Steel Workers Union
https://lri.link/2m56277

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Pritzker Signs Afscme Deal Costing Taxpayers $3.6 Billion More Than It Needed To
https://lri.link/2kDMAy4

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It’s All Academic

Chicago Teachers Union Exemplifies Why Unions are Crumbling Nationwide
https://lri.link/2k6h0Zs

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How California Environmental Law Makes It Easy For Labor Unions To Shake Down Developers
https://lri.link/2m55Swx

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Food & Commercial Workers Boss in Brooklyn Sentenced for Racketeering
https://lri.link/2lFU3Nf

SEIU Local 73 Must Re-Run Officer Election after Feds Find Fault
https://lri.link/2m8jI1f

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From coercion to corruption to collapse: The UAW's predictable demise
https://lri.link/2lFU0Rz

Federal probe into union corruption expands to General Motors
https://lri.link/2kaPxGd

Former UAW official pleads guilty to fraud, money laundering
https://lri.link/2m3IteX

FBI raids home of UAW president as bribery probe expands
https://lri.link/2m2WZDI

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Gig Economy

Uber and Lyft just lost another battle in California
https://lri.link/2lGZlZ1

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Minimum Rising

This California city just voted to give a $30 minimum wage to Uber and Lyft drivers
https://lri.link/2m55eiB

New law would make Arizona cities pay for raising the minimum wage
https://lri.link/2k6gQ4i

New Hampshire Governor Vetoes $12 Minimum Wage Bill
https://lri.link/2m6aF0M

Connecticut's rest-stop McDonald's are new 'Fight for $15' target
https://lri.link/2kaRuSW

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Right-to-Work

Labor Board Rules UAW Violated Ford Worker’s Legal Rights by Unlawfully Accepting Union Dues Deducted from Paycheck
https://lri.link/2m9RHGH

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Labor Around the World

UK universities brace for strike action in pensions dispute
https://lri.link/2kFq2wN

New federal labour rules aim to curb workplace sexual harassment, Canada
https://lri.link/2lKNdWL

Taxpayer fury: Union bosses salaries SOAR - ‘Red barons playing working class warriors’
https://lri.link/2kckBW5
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