Smlr_net April 2021

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April 16, 2021
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16 Apr '21

*SMLR-Net: Selected news on labor and employment relations & human resource management* *APRIL 16, 2021* *Title:* Murphy Considers $40M for Undocumented Workers. Immigrant Groups Call It ‘Insulting.' *Source:* NJ Advance Media for NJ.com *Author:* Sophie Nieto-Munoz *Date:* April 15, 2021 *Summary:* Gov. Phil Murphy is considering a $40 million fund for the state’s 460,000 undocumented immigrants who have not been eligible for any coronavirus stimulus checks or unemployment benefits, according to immigrant advocacy groups who were on a Tuesday night call with the governor’s office. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3x0Xo9K *Title:* Are Unemployment Benefits Really Making It Impossible for Restaurants to Hire? *Source:* Slate *Author:* Jordan Weissmann *Date:* April 15, 2021 *Summary:* With spring in bloom and millions of Americans getting vaccinated by the day, business has started picking back up for America’s financially battered restaurants. There’s just one problem: They can’t find enough hands to hire. That, anyway, is what’s been reported in a raft of articles describing an industrywide labor shortage that’s challenged eateries across the U.S. and even forced some to close, right when it seemed they’d reached the light at the end of COVID’s long, dark tunnel. Restaurants have been especially troubled by a lack of back-of-the-house staff like line cooks; after all, you can’t serve food if nobody’s in the kitchen. *Link:* https://bit.ly/32xZekJ *Title:* With Layoffs Down and Spending Up, U.S. Rebound Gains Momentum *Source:* Associated Press *Author:* Christopher Rugaber and Joseph Pisani *Date:* April 15, 2021 *Summary:* A much-awaited economic boom coming off the pandemic recession appeared to edge closer to reality Thursday with fresh data showing the pace of layoffs dwindling, consumers spending freely and manufacturing rebounding. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3ag1gdb *Title:* Biden Says His Climate Plan Means Jobs. Some Union Members are Skeptical *Source:* NPR *Author:* Reid Frazier *Date:* April 15, 2021 *Summary:* President Biden is selling the climate-friendly aspects of his $2 trillion infrastructure plan as a chance to create good-paying union jobs. But at a local branch of one of the country's oldest unions, there are doubts that dealing with climate change will be good for workers here, in the oil-and-gas state of Pennsylvania. *Link:* https://n.pr/3aeml7U *James B. Carey Library* School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Website: https://smlr.rutgers.edu/library Email: smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu To unsubscribe from this listserv, visit: https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/smlr_net.

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April 15, 2021
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15 Apr '21

*SMLR-Net: Selected news on labor and employment relations & human resource management* *APRIL 15, 2021* *Title:* OECD Backs Biden’s Plan to Raise the Minimum Wage *Source:* CNBC *Author:* Silvia Amaro *Date:* April 14, 2021 *Summary:* The U.S. should go ahead with a plan to increase its federal minimum wage to help with a more inclusive recovery from the coronavirus crisis, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Wednesday. *Link:* https://cnb.cx/3adtVQ2 *Title:* 5 Health Care Jobs on the Rise *Source:* The New York Times *Author:* Kerry Hannon *Date:* April 14, 2021 *Summary:* Economists at the Labor Department project that from 2019 to 2029 employment in health care in the United States will grow 15 percent, much faster than the average for all occupations, adding about 2.4 million new jobs during that span. *Link:* https://nyti.ms/32iVmUt *Title:* To Retain Workers, Walmart Moves More of them Full Time *Source:* Associated Press *Author:* Anne D’Innocenzio *Date:* April 14, 2021 *Summary:* Walmart is moving more of its workers full time as the nation’s largest private employer looks for more ways to attract and retain employees. The company said Wednesday it plans to have two-thirds of its U.S. store hourly jobs be full time with more consistent work schedules by Jan. 31, the end of its current fiscal year. That’s up from 53% five years ago, the company said. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3aazJtW *Title:* Adapting Workers to the Modern Economy: Alternative Training and Certification *Source:* Brookings *Author:* Marcus Casey and Ember Smith *Date:* April 13, 2021 *Summary:* The specter of labor market disruption driven by advanced automation technologies raises concern that the US workforce will be both underprepared and inflexible in the face of these changes. While this alarm is not new, the COVID-19 pandemic may be bringing these predictions to the present much faster than originally expected. *Link:* https://brook.gs/32kiRfT *James B. Carey Library* School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Website: https://smlr.rutgers.edu/library Email: smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu To unsubscribe from this listserv, visit: https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/smlr_net.

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April 14, 2021
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14 Apr '21

*SMLR-Net: Selected news on labor and employment relations & human resource management* *APRIL 14, 2021* *Title:* Labor’s Next Move Against Amazon *Source:* New York Daily News *Author:* Susan Schurman *Date:* April 13, 2021 *Summary:* The RWDSU should immediately establish what’s known as a “minority union” and demand the right to bargain on behalf of those 738 workers who voted yes. Unlike a majority union that represents the entire workforce in a warehouse, factory or other place of employment, a minority union — also known as a members-only union — represents only those workers who wish to join. *Link:* https://bit.ly/2RtYbjb *Title:* New York Times Tech Workers Form a Union *Source:* The New York Times *Author:* Katie Robertson *Date:* April 13, 2021 *Summary:* Tech workers at The New York Times announced on Tuesday that they had formed a union and would ask the company to recognize it. The group of more than 650 employees includes software engineers, designers, data analysts and product managers. It will be represented by the NewsGuild of New York. *Link:* https://nyti.ms/32gIwGh *Title:* Unemployment Was Worse in Philadelphia than in Many Other Big Cities Last Year, Pew Report Shows *Source:* The Philadelphia Inquirer *Author:* Christian Hetrick *Date:* April 13, 2021 *Summary:* The pandemic hammered Philadelphia’s labor market harder than in other big cities last year, wiping out tens of thousands of jobs and widening the gap between the city and national jobless rates, according to a new report. Philadelphia’s average unemployment rate last year trailed only Detroit and Cleveland among 10 major U.S. cities, according to the Pew Charitable Trusts’ annual State of the City report, released Tuesday. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3tkw5Fb *Title:* Unions Eye Brookings, Urban Institute as Push to Organize Think Tanks Grow *Source:* Politico *Author:* Rebecca Rainey *Date:* April 13, 2021 *Summary:* Workers at two of the largest, most influential think tanks in Washington, D.C. are forming a union, adding to a growing trend in white-collar collective bargaining. Staff at the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute on Tuesday asked their employers to grant them voluntary recognition — which doesn't require a secret ballot election — of their unions, which are affiliated with the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union, IFPTE Local 70. *Link:* https://politi.co/2RAj7oU *James B. Carey Library* School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Website: https://smlr.rutgers.edu/library Email: smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu To unsubscribe from this listserv, visit: https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/smlr_net.

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April 13, 2021
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13 Apr '21

*SMLR-Net: Selected news on labor and employment relations & human resource management* *APRIL 13, 2021* *Title:* U.S. Women’s National Team to Appeal Pay Claims after Working Conditions Settlement *Source:* Reuters *Author:* Amy Tennery *Date:* April 12, 2021 *Summary:* The U.S. women’s national team can proceed with their appeal over claims for equal pay after a judge on Monday approved a settlement between the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) and the players over working conditions. *Link:* https://reut.rs/3teJ1wq *Title:* A Majority of CEOs Say Biden’s Proposed Corporate Tax Hike Could Undo the Economic Gains from Trump’s Cuts *Source:* Business Insider *Author:* Natasha Dailey *Date:* April 12, 2021 *Summary:* American business leaders are warning a corporate tax rate hike proposed by President Joe Biden could make it harder to hire workers and increase their wages. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3a5shQO *Title:* Texas Senate Revives Push to Block Cities’ Paid Sick Leave Ordinances *Source:* The Texas Tribune *Author:* Megan Munce *Date:* April 12, 2021 *Summary:* Supporters say Senate Bill 14 will prevent regulatory confusion in a way that helps businesses regain their footing as the economy tries to recover from the pandemic’s devastating financial effects. But opponents say it reduces workers’ access to paid sick leave after they’ve been navigating the pandemic for more than a year. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3uNtSCE *Title:* Labor Market Will Tighten Sharply: Not as Much Slack as Biden Assumes *Source:* Forbes *Author:* Bill Conerly *Date:* April 13, 2021 *Summary:* Will companies be able to find workers in 2021 and 2022? It may be very difficult. Some of President Biden’s policies are aimed at stimulating demand for workers. Jerome Powell is leading the Federal Reserve in the same direction. But other policies will diminish people’s interest in going to work. These conflicts coincide with a demographic trend of little growth in the working age population. The net result will be a great opportunity for people who want to work, and poor opportunities for companies trying to expand. In this environment, demand stimulus is more likely to raise inflation than to promote real economic growth. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3dRs2JS *James B. Carey Library* School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Website: https://smlr.rutgers.edu/library Email: smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu To unsubscribe from this listserv, visit: https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/smlr_net.

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April 12, 2021
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12 Apr '21

*SMLR-Net: Selected news on labor and employment relations & human resource management* *APRIL 12, 2021* *Title:* Single Payer Health Care is Having its Moment, One Vaccine at a Time (Opinion) *Source:* Newsweek *Author:* Rebecca Kolins Givan *Date:* April 9, 2021 *Summary:* The COVID-19 vaccination program is giving many Americans their first glimpse of an alternative to our current health care system. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3wOKGLq *Title:* What’s Next for Pro-Union Amazon Workers? A Long, Hard Fight *Source:* Protocol *Author:* Megan Rose Dickey and Anna Kramer *Date:* April 9, 2021 *Summary:* Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama still don't have their union — but that doesn't mean there's not more organizing on the horizon. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3s8B0HN *Title:* Boeing Employees Vote to Authorize Strike if New Contract Agreement Cannot Be Reached *Source:* King 5 (NBC) *Author:* King 5 (NBC) *Date:* April 11, 2021 *Summary:* About 220 Boeing employees voted Sunday to authorize a strike if a new contract agreement cannot be reached with their employer by April 17 at midnight. Members of the Teamsters Local 174, the union representing Boeing employees, met virtually Sunday and voted unanimously to authorize a strike. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3wNx5E2 *Title:* This Top Biden Economist Has a Plan: Create Jobs, Address Inequality, Ignore Trolls *Source:* NPR *Author:* Ayesha Rascoe *Date:* April 11, 2021 *Summary:* The U.S. economy added more than 900,000 jobs last month. For most White House officials, that would be considered a banner number. For Janelle Jones, the top economist at the Labor Department, there is much more work for the Biden administration to do. *Link:* https://n.pr/3sbvhRM *James B. Carey Library* School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Website: https://smlr.rutgers.edu/library Email: smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu To unsubscribe from this listserv, visit: https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/smlr_net.

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April 9, 2021
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09 Apr '21

*SMLR-Net: Selected news on labor and employment relations & human resource management* *APRIL 9, 2021* *Title:* Early Vote Counts Show Amazon Warehouse Workers Not Likely to Unionize in Bessemer, Alabama *Source:* NBC News *Author:* April 8, 2021 *Date:* Olivia Solon and Ezra Kaplan *Summary:* Amazon warehouse workers here were voting overwhelmingly against forming a union Thursday after a monthslong campaign in which labor had hoped to make inroads into the sprawling company. *Link:* https://nbcnews.to/3wEvEYp *Title:* N.J. Unemployment Claims Rise Again as State Processes Those Who Hit Year Benefit Mark *Source:* NJ Advance Media for NJ.com *Author:* Sophie Nieto-Munoz *Date:* April 8, 2021 *Summary:* New unemployment claims are on the rise in New Jersey, one year after the Department of Labor saw a 2,700% increase in claims at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3g2uZKF *Title:* Weekly Jobless Claims Higher Than Expected *Source:* CNBC *Author:* Jeff Cox *Date:* April 8, 2021 *Summary:* First-time claims for unemployment insurance rose more than expected last week despite other signs of healing in the jobs market, the Labor Department reported Thursday. *Link:* https://cnb.cx/39WZ22a *Title:* Oregon Tech Faculty Union Declares Intent to Strike *Source:* Oregon Public Broadcasting *Author:* Meerah Powell *Date:* April 8, 2021 *Summary:* The Oregon Institute of Technology’s faculty union Thursday declared its intent to strike. A potential strike would start no earlier than April 26. Oregon Tech–American Association of University Professors (OT-AAUP) and OIT have been bargaining for 16 months. They have been in mediation for almost six months, the union said in a news release Thursday. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3d3Chfe *James B. Carey Library* School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Website: https://smlr.rutgers.edu/library Email: smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu To unsubscribe from this listserv, visit: https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/smlr_net.

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April 8, 2021
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08 Apr '21

*SMLR-Net: Selected news on labor and employment relations & human resource management* *APRIL 8, 2021* *Title:* The Enormous Impact of Eroded Collective Bargaining On Wages *Source:* Economic Policy Institute *Author:* Lawrence Mishel *Date:* April 8, 2021 *Summary:* A major factor depressing wage growth for middle earners and driving the growth of wage inequality over the last four decades has been the erosion of collective bargaining. *Link:* https://bit.ly/39POMJ1 *Title:* The Ringer, Gimlet Media Ratify First Collective Bargaining Agreements with Spotify *Source:* Hollywood Reporter *Author:* Katie Kilkenny *Date:* April 7, 2021 *Summary:* The agreement provides minimum salaries, sets restrictions on the use of outside contractors in bargaining unit positions and provides a minimum 2 percent annual raise for covered employees. The Ringer and Gimlet Media unions have both ratified collective bargaining agreements with owner Spotify, the Writers Guild of America East announced Tuesday. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3d1LPHi *Title:* Are Pay-By-The-Minute Booths the Future of Work? *Source:* BBC News, Singapore *Author:* Tim McDonald *Date:* April 7, 2021 *Summary:* Switch thinks its booths may offer a solution, and some of its corporate clients already allow their employees to charge the cost of a booth to the company. *Link:* https://bbc.in/3uEvvTb *Title:* Amazon Union Drive in Alabama Gathers 3,215 Votes *Source:* The New York Times *Author:* Karen Weise and Michael Corkery *Date:* April 8, 2021 *Summary:* The union seeking to represent workers at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama said late Wednesday that there were 3,215 ballots cast — or about 55 percent of the roughly 5,800 workers who were eligible to vote. The ballots are expected to be counted by hand starting either Thursday afternoon or Friday morning in the National Labor Relations Board’s office in Birmingham, according to the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union. Hundreds of ballots are being contested, mostly by Amazon, the union said. *Link:* https://nyti.ms/39Uqlu3 *James B. Carey Library* School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Website: https://smlr.rutgers.edu/library Email: smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu To unsubscribe from this listserv, visit: https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/smlr_net.

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April 7, 2021
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07 Apr '21

*SMLR-Net: Selected news on labor and employment relations & human resource management* *APRIL 7, 2021* *Title:* Garment Workers Who Lost Jobs in Pandemic Still Wait for Severance Pay *Source:* The New York Times *Author:* Elizabeth Paton *Date:* April 6, 2021 *Summary:* A new report says millions of dollars in wages have been withheld from garment workers around the world by factories contracted by major fashion brands. *Link:* https://nyti.ms/3cUY74k *Title:* 24% of Unemployed Workers Have Been Jobless for Over a Year *Source:* CNBC *Author:* Greg Iacurci *Date:* April 6, 2021 *Summary:* Nearly a quarter of all unemployed workers in the U.S. have been out of work for at least a year, a stretch of joblessness dating to the early days of the Covid pandemic. The dynamic speaks to persistent — and rising — long-term joblessness even as the national unemployment rate falls. That divergence is unusual during downturns and highlights the unequal (or K-shaped) nature of the recovery, economists said. *Link:* https://cnb.cx/3rY6VKU *Title:* 1,100 Coal Miners Go on Strike in Northern Alabama *Source:* Payday Report *Author:* Mike Elk *Date:* April 5, 2021 *Summary:* It was the first time UMWA coal miners went on strike at the gigantic mine complex in 40 years. For more than 100 years, the mineworkers union in Northern Alabama has been racially integrated and in this part of rural Alabama, nearly one-third of the workers in the coal mine is Black. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3cTXeJs *Title:* The Labor-Rights Legislation That Could Make Medicare for All a Reality *Source:* The New Republic *Author:* Natalie Shure *Date:* April 6, 2021 *Summary:* The most monumental pro-labor legislation since the 1930s is a few co-sponsors shy of a majority in the Senate, and it’s tough to overstate what a big deal that is: The Protect the Right to Organize Act promises to largely revert the United States back to the friendlier New Deal era of labor law, before postwar Republican majorities moved to significantly tamp down organized labor with the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3fLEFcd *James B. Carey Library* School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Website: https://smlr.rutgers.edu/library Email: smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu To unsubscribe from this listserv, visit: https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/smlr_net.

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April 6, 2021
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06 Apr '21

*SMLR-Net: Selected news on labor and employment relations & human resource management* *APRIL 6, 2021* *Title:* McDonald’s, Other CEOs Tell Investors $15 Minimum Wage Won’t Hurt Business *Source:* Newsweek *Author:* Julia Rock and Andrew Perez *Date:* April 5, 2021 *Summary:* Big restaurant chains are telling investors that a national minimum wage hike wouldn't be a big deal—even as their corporate lobbying groups in Washington fight plans for a $15 minimum wage. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3cT5lG5 *Title:* U.S.’s Long Drought in Worker Productivity Could Be Ending *Source:* The Wall Street Journal *Author:* Sarah Chaney Cambon *Date:* April 4, 2021 *Summary:* After a decade long drought, worker productivity might be about to accelerate thanks to pandemic-induced technological adoption, which could lift economic growth and wages in coming years while staving off inflation pressure. *Link:* https://on.wsj.com/3dB1JHT *Title:* The March Jobs Report and the State of the Recovery *Source:* Center for Economic and Policy Research *Author:* Dean Baker *Date:* April 5, 2021 *Summary:* I can remember few jobs reports that were as unambiguously positive as the data released last Friday. Just about everything in the report was moving in the right direction, and for the most part, at a rapid pace… *Link:* https://bit.ly/3dCJrGi *Title:* The Wage Gap that Threatens Biden’s Climate Plan *Source:* Politico *Author:* Kelsey Tamborrino *Date:* April 6, 2021 *Summary:* Workers in the greener side of the energy industry earn significantly less than those who extract fossil fuels and run power plants, new data show. *Link:* https://politi.co/3ulH2X2 *James B. Carey Library* School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Website: https://smlr.rutgers.edu/library Email: smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu To unsubscribe from this listserv, visit: https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/smlr_net.

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April 5, 2021
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05 Apr '21

*SMLR-Net: Selected news on labor and employment relations & human resource management* *APRIL 5, 2021* *Title:* Payroll Employment Rises by 916,000 in March; Unemployment Rate Edges Down to 6.0% *Source:* U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics *Author:* U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics *Date:* April 2, 2021 *Summary:* Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 916,000 in March, and the unemployment rate edged down to 6.0 percent. These improvements in the labor market reflect the continued resumption of economic activity that had been curtailed due to COVID-19. Job growth was widespread in March. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3nE6Eek *Title:* Generation Unemployed: Another Class of Graduates Face Pandemic-Scarred Future *Source:* NPR *Author:* Sam Gringlas *Date:* April 5, 2021 *Summary:* Youth unemployment remains stubbornly high. Though much better than the 27.4% rate in April last year, the unemployment rate for those aged 16-24 actually ticked higher, to 11.1% in March. That was significantly above the overall unemployment rate of 6.0%. *Link:* https://n.pr/3sPV5Ec *Title:* Amazon Illegally Fired Activist Workers, Labor Board Finds *Source:* The New York Times *Author:* Karen Weise *Date:* April 5, 2021 *Summary:* The two employees had publicly pushed the company to reduce its impact on climate change and address concerns about its warehouse workers. *Link:* https://nyti.ms/3dDTN8I *Title:* Florida Labor Unions Say Proposal Will Lead to ‘Disaster’ for State Worker Pensions *Source:* Tallahassee Democrat *Author:* James Call *Date:* April 2, 2021 *Summary:* State, county and city workers and retirees are mounting a full-scale lobbying effort to block a Florida Senate proposal they say will bankrupt the pension fund in the Florida Retirement System (FRS). *Link:* https://bit.ly/3moOXjF *James B. Carey Library* School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Website: https://smlr.rutgers.edu/library Email: smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu To unsubscribe from this listserv, visit: https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/smlr_net.

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