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May 29, 2020

Alexandra Butler

Alexandra Butler 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 26

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

March 24

Duke opposing unionizing grad student workers; NLRB prosecutors find merit to ULPs against Amazon; Starbucks investors weighing outside audit of company's labor practices.

March 23

Trader Joe's workers in Oakland file a petition to form a union; a Kenyan court temporarily blocks Meta contractor’s mass layoff of content moderators; and Starbucks workers at more than 100 stores walkout ahead of shareholders’ meeting.

March 22

NLRB's General Counsel issues two memos clarifying priorities and a recent Board decision, LA teachers go on strike, and Bloomberg Law reports higher pay raises from labor contracts

March 20

Residents and fellows at Mass General Brigham hospitals prepare to unionize; divisions in the New York Times NewsGuild union deepens as contract negotiations remain ongoing; the six-month Pittsburgh Post-Gazette strike turned violent on Saturday; Los Angeles schools prepare to close this week as workers plan to strike

March 19

Ninth Circuit reinstates Uber's Equal Protection challenge to California's AB5; reduction in SNAP benefits could lead to "hunger cliff" for low-wage workers; Amazon workers start unionizing campaign at Kentucky facility; ex-Google employees ask company to honor parental leave.

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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