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April 29, 2020

Leigh Thomas

Leigh Thomas is a student at Harvard Law School.

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Daily News & Commentary

Start your day with our roundup of the latest labor developments. See all

March 31

Starbucks faces shareholder pressure for an independent review of worker rights; McDonald's workers appeal lawsuit over no-poach agreements; NYT employees take to twitter over stalled collective bargaining agreement; Seattle becomes the first American city to establish permanent paid sick and safe time benefits for gig workers; and Major League Baseball reaches a tentative collective bargaining agreement with minor league players.

March 30

Howard Schultz denied violating labor law, Florida’s anti-union bill passes the Senate, and screenwriters and journalists call for fair wages.

March 29

Former Starbucks CEO testifies today before a Sanders-led Senate committee, and Kansas City Apple store organizers file charges with the NLRB.

March 28

New data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Chipotle settles NLRB suit.

March 27

Striking Los Angeles school workers have reached a tentative deal with the Los Angeles Unified School District, law professors have filed an amicus brief to contest the use of arbitration in former Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores’s employment discrimination lawsuit against the NFL, and the Senate HELP Committee gears up for Wednesday’s Howard Schultz testimony.

March 26

Shawn Fain wins runoff election for UAW president; Michigan Gov. Whitmer signs repeal of right-to-work

OnLabor In The News

The New Republic

Starbucks Workers Are Unionizing. Their Bosses Are Refusing to Bargain.: Prof. Block on how employers' refusal to bargain harms the labor movement

Talking Points Memo

Chipotle Borrows From Starbucks’ Playbook As Workers Push To Unionize: Prof. Sachs on how though "policies in Washington have made it very difficult for workers to organize; at the moment, workers are defying those fierce headwinds."

SHRM

A Beneficial Union: Prof. Sachs on how employers can benefit from unions, explaining how unions "open up a new line of communication between management and workers" and how voluntary recognition "can be faster and less acrimonious" than using the NLRB process

Bloomberg

Apple to Withhold Latest Employee Perks From Unionized Store: Prof. Sachs explains why employers like Apple and Starbucks are wrong when they say they can't offer union workers the same perks that they're extending to nonunion employees.

The American Prospect

Laws That Create Countervailing Power: A roundtable discussion with Benjamin Sachs, Kate Andrias, Steve Kest, and Robert Kuttner.

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