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University of Chicago grad students vote overwhelmingly to unionize

CHICAGO — Graduate students at the University of Chicago voted overwhelmingly to unionize following a ballot count held Thursday by the National Labor Relations Board, the latest such vote in a swell of organizing at universities across the country.

Chicago Tribune

Michael Hiltzik: How touchy-feely Starbucks became the poster child for illegal union-busting

Few American companies strive to project as warm and welcoming an image as Starbucks, in its treatment of customers and workers alike.

Los Angeles Times

What employers should know about the NLRB severance ruling

Employers can no longer silence laid-off workers in exchange for severance, giving employees more bargaining power.

Fortune

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Food Workers Find Doors Barred on Day of Union Protest

On the day Flying Food Group employees in L.A. had planned to picket, they found exit doors wouldn't open.

Capital & Main

NLRB judge says Starbucks engaged in 'egregious' anti-union activity

NLRB Judge Michael Rosas said that the U.S. coffee company engaged in "egregious and widespread misconduct" in trying to stop its first unions.

Fortune

Who is entitled to overtime? A new Supreme Court decision puts employers on notice

Every employer should review their wage and hour compliance regularly, an employment attorney says.

Fortune

‘Old-school union busting’: how US corporations are quashing the new wave of organizing

Victories at several companies energized organizers, but hostile corporations – and an impotent labor board – stymie negotiations

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Gag order ruling could free up ex-Twitter employees to criticize Elon Musk

Shut up and take the money, companies told laid-off employees. Literally.

Los Angeles Times

NLRB to Elon and other tech CEOs: No, you can’t gag workers in exchange for severance

Twitter CEO Elon Musk may now have a serious problem on his hands after a federal body ruled in favor of returning to historical precedent upended during the Trump administration.

Fortune

Google contractors on strike in Austin hope to rally support among tech workers

The several dozen contractors for YouTube Music are fighting a push to return to in-person work. Their strike has gained the support of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, and U.S. Rep. Greg Casar, D-Austin.

The Texas Tribune

Companies can't enforce silence for severance pay, Labor Board rules

Employees also cannot be prevented from disclosing the terms of their severance packages as outlined in any exit agreement.

Axios

SCOTUS hears argument in case challenging scope of NLRB authority

The Checks and Balances Letter delivers news and information from Ballotpedia’s Administrative State Project, including pivotal actions at the federal and state levels related to the separation of powers, due process, and the rule of law.

Ballotpedia

How big companies like Tesla and Starbucks are fending off unionization

The public is increasingly pro-labor, but big employers are not shy about aggressively fending off unionization.

Axios

Tesla fires more than 30 workers after union drive announcement

Workers at the Gigafactory 2 in Buffalo, New York, allege employees were fired in response to a union organizing drive

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Two Philly baristas were fired after leading organizing efforts. Now Starbucks must rehire them and give back pay

Two Philadelphia Starbucks baristas who were fired in 2020 after helping to launch an organizing effort have won their jobs back, as well as back pay, the National Labor Relations Board has decided.

Capital & Main

The Darker Truths About the State of Unionizing in the Country — and What Can Be Done to Change Things

Organizing franchises is swell, but the attacks on unionization drives must stop.

Tribune News Service

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz declines to testify in Sanders' hearing

Starbucks declined to make interim CEO Howard Schultz available to testify before Congress next month, according to a letter sent by Starbucks' general counsel Zabrina Jenkins on Tuesday.

Tribune News Service

Amazon illegally resisted NYC union drive, Labor Board judge says

Amazon.com Inc. violated federal labor law as part of its efforts to resist unionization at two facilities in New York City, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled in a case that tees up major potential changes to board precedent.

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The Guardian - US

‘It can be scary’: how corporate America is hitting back against unions

Employers are using heavy-handed tactics to prevent workers from organizing, and US labor union density is falling as a result

Tribune News Service

Supreme Court weighs union actions and federal labor law

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court expressed skepticism during oral arguments Tuesday that a company should not be able to sue a union in state court for damage caused during a strike, in a case that unions say could curtail a federal labor law meant to protect their actions.

Roll Call

Supreme Court weighs union actions and federal labor law - Roll Call

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday about when a company can sue a union in state court for damage caused during a strike.

Chicago Tribune

Labor board to review case filed by CVS worker who said she was fired for refusing union membership

The National Labor Relations Board is scheduled to review a complaint filed by a 68-year-old part-time employee of an Evanston, Illinois, pharmacy who said she was fired for refusing to join a union.

Chicago Tribune

2022 saw a wave of new unions form. Getting to the bargaining table is the next challenge

CHICAGO — As snow fell on the picket line outside a Bucktown Starbucks in November, striking unionized baristas kept warm with cups of Colectivo Coffee, which is brewed by members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, a union that also represents baristas at Chicago-based Intelligentsia Coffee.

Tribune News Service

Andrew Carter: What’s next for college sports in 2023? Realignment, NIL and the search for stability.

College athletics changed incrementally for a long time. And then, in the past couple of years, it has changed all at once. Name, image and likeness rights, better known as “NIL,” have entered the college sporting lexicon. So has the phrase “the transfer portal.” A couple of years ago, neither…

Tribune News Service

Starbucks refused union contract talks at 21 cafes, NLRB says

Starbucks Corp. has illegally refused to negotiate at 21 recently unionized cafes in Washington state and Oregon, US labor board prosecutors alleged in a complaint.

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