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NLRB Issues New Joint Employer Rules

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The National Labor Relations Board has issued a new rule on defining joint employers (like McDonalds), overturning the Trump Board rule.

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A Labor Day Like No Other

Harold Meyerson The American Prospect
Workers on strike. With public support for unions at near-record highs and new federal rules that actually enable organizing, unions need to mount massive campaigns.

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There Is One Group the Roberts Court Really Doesn’t Like

JAMELLE BOUIE The New York Times
photo of the supreme court house overlayed with a sign saying Stand with Workersa The American political system was not built with the interests of workers in mind. If labor is ever going to get what it needs, it probably won’t be with the helping hand of a judge or a justice.

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Inside the Supreme Court Case That Could Chill a U.S. Strike Wave

Steve Wishnia Work-Bites
Photo of strike signs on sticks with workers hands leaning on them.   The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Glacier Northwest v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 174 on Jan. 10. Justices Alito and Thomas might want to use this case to narrow what is considered “protected activity”. That would follow the pattern of the 2018 Janus v. AFSCME decision, which was preceded by another case where Alito disputed the 1977 precedent that public-sector unions may charge nonmembers fees for the costs of representing them.
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