Smlr_net December 2022

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December 23, 2022
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23 Dec '22

*SMLR-Net: Selected news on labor and employment relations & human resource management* *December 23, 2022* *Title:* Barry Feinstein, Once a Labor Union Power in New York, Dies at 87 *Source:* The New York Times *Author:* Robert D. McFadden *Date:* December 22, 2022 *Summary:* He used a small Teamsters local in the city to amass broad political influence over 25 years, only to be undone by corruption charges. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3vbghan *Title:* A Chick-Fil-A Location is Fined for Giving Workers Meals Instead of Money *Source:* NPR *Author:* Ayana Archie *Date:* December 23, 2022 *Summary:* A Chick-fil-A in North Carolina has been fined $6,450 for paying workers with meals instead of money and violating child labor laws, the Department of Labor has announced. An investigation by the DOL found that at a Chick-Fil-A in Hendersonville, N.C., three employees under 18 were assigned hazardous tasks, such as operating, loading and unloading the trash compactor. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3HZUjPq *Title:* New Head of United Airlines Pilot Union Resigns After Online Comments Spark Outcry *Source:* CNBC *Author: * Leslie Josephs *Date:* December 22, 2022 *Summary:* Neil Swindells, a Chicago-based Boeing 787 captain, was narrowly elected earlier this week to lead the union of more than 14,000 pilots. Some of the messages had surfaced before the union leadership’s vote, which he narrowly won. The election was held after the previous chairman resigned due to a family issue. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3FNz7t7 *Title:* Jeep Plant Shutdown Imperils Illinois Town and 1,350 Workers *Source:* The New York Times *Author:* Neal E. Boudette and Robert Chiarito *Date:* December 23, 2022 *Summary:* Stellantis plans to idle the factory, which makes the Cherokee, as it shifts to electric vehicles. Labor talks and a union election may be affected. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3PRzkjK *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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December 22, 2022
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22 Dec '22

*SMLR-Net: Selected news on labor and employment relations & human resource management* *December 22, 2022* *Title:* U.K. Ambulance Workers Stage Their Largest Walkout in Decades *Source:* The New York Times *Author:* Isabella Kwai *Date:* December 21, 2022 *Summary:* The industrial action, seeking higher pay and better working conditions, was driven by a cost-of-living crisis and coincides with strikes by rail workers, nurses and others. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3YJeJCc *Title:* Could Naps At Work Boost Productivity? BetterUp’s CHRO Explains Why Fatigue is a Workplace Issue *Source:* Employee Benefits News *Author:* Paola Peralta *Date:* December 21, 2022 *Summary:* Approximately 38% of workers are struggling through sleep-related challenges at work, according to the National Library of Medicine, and the effects of that fatigue are costing employers around $1,967 annually per employee. That's $136.4 billion a year in total loss of productivity. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3Wm4oum *Title:* The ‘Secure 2.9’ Retirement Legislation Leaves a ‘Huge Problem Untouched,’ Labor Economist Warns. How These Changes Could Help *Source:* CNBC *Author: * Lorie Konish *Date:* December 21, 2022 *Summary:* As Congress rushes to push the changes through before the end of the year, the legislation still falls short of addressing the crux of the retirement savings gap in the United States — the lack of access to retirement savings plans, according to researchers at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at The New School. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3WjyD54 *Title:* New Money From Congress May Avert Labor Crisis at National Labor Board *Source:* The Washington Post *Author:* Lauren Kaori Gurley *Date:* December 20, 2022 *Summary:* Congress is poised to boost funding for the federal agency that protects workers’ rights to organize, at least temporarily averting a staffing crisis that has hampered the Biden administration’s ability to deliver on its pro-union agenda — and that also threatened to cause prolonged labor unrest at the agency. *Link:* https://wapo.st/3BWHaCC *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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December 21, 2022
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21 Dec '22

*SMLR-Net: Selected news on labor and employment relations & human resource management* *December 21, 2022* *Title:* Hotels Say Goodbye to Daily Room Cleanings and Hello to Robots as Workers Stay Scarce *Source:* NPR *Author:* Andrea Hsu *Date:* December 21, 2022 *Summary:* "If we vacuum every floor with a robot, that saves one whole shift," says Garden City Hotel managing director Grady Colin. "That's one whole person per day that can be redeployed to do something else." *Link:* https://bit.ly/3BOrPnG *Title:* Inequality in Annual Earnings Worsens in 2021 *Source:* Economic Policy Institute *Author:* Elise Gould and Jori Kandra *Date:* December 21, 2022 *Summary:* The latest data on annual earnings from the Social Security Administration (SSA 2022a) show that the very top continues to pull away and amass a larger share of the earnings pie, while the bottom 90% continues to fall further behind. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3Wwoamo *Title:* Xiaomi Layoffs: Thousands of Tech Jobs Cut as China’s Unemployment Crisis Deepens *Source:* CNN Business *Author: * Laura He *Date:* December 21, 2022 *Summary:* The Beijing-based firm recently conducted a “routine personnel optimization and organizational streamlining,” a Xiaomi spokesperson told CNN. The measure affects less than 10% of its total workforce, the person added. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3VdDtzu *Title:* Long COVID Patients Can Face a Battle Trying to Claim Benefits Through Their Workplace Disability Insurance *Source:* CNBC *Author:* Sarah O’Brien *Date:* December 20, 2022 *Summary:* Long-term disability insurance, which is intended to kick in when necessary after short-term disability benefits run out, is available to 35% of workers. It usually pays 50% to 70% of a worker’s income — often through retirement age, depending on the specifics. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3Gb2cjm *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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December 20, 2022
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20 Dec '22

*SMLR-Net: Selected news on labor and employment relations & human resource management* *December 20, 2022* *Title:* Britain is Seeing a Wave of Strikes as Nurses, Postal Workers and Others Walk Out *Source:* NPR *Author:* Frank Langfitt *Date:* December 20, 2022 *Summary:* Tens of thousands of nurses staged a one-day walkout Thursday, the biggest nursing strike in the history of Britain's National Health Service. And they're not the only ones walking out. Joining them this month are employees from other essential services including rail workers, mail carriers and airport immigration officers. It's the largest series of labor actions in the United Kingdom in more than a decade, and presents a major challenge to the new government of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3FzPFEQ *Title:* Going Digital: How Learning and Employment Records Shape Access to Quality Education and Jobs *Source:* Brookings *Author:* Annelies Goger, Allyson Parco, Rohan Carter-Rau, Jessa Henderson, Kazumi Homma, Ani Meliksteyan, and Natalie Milman *Date:* December 19, 2022 *Summary:* This report examines how digital credentials and learning and employment records (LERs) are shaping the ways people access education and career opportunities around the world. A wide range of education and labor market technologies is proliferating, especially in North America and Europe. Although these new technologies may expand opportunities for many learners and workers, they also risk leaving many communities and individuals behind. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3BOwrdx *Title:* DeSantis’ Latest Education Plan Targets Teachers’ Unions By Ending Automatic Dues in Favor of Monthly Mailed-In Checks *Source:* Business Insider *Author: * Kimberly Leonard *Date:* December 19, 2022 *Summary:* DeSantis' latest so-called "Freedom Blueprint" proposal appears similar to a measure the Florida legislature considered in 2021 and 2022 that the state's largest teachers' union, the Florida Education Association, called "anti-freedom" and "anti-educator." *Link:* https://bit.ly/3WxvYEt *Title:* Why the Market is Obsessed With Unemployment *Source:* CNN *Author:* Nicole Goodkind *Date:* December 19, 2022 *Summary:* As the year comes to a close, it seems that the market’s focus on inflation rates are shifting to a new area of concern: Unemployment. While the Federal Reserve has taken steps to fight inflation by curbing economic growth, the full extent of the damage to the employment market is yet to be seen. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3FzR3aw *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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December 19, 2022
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19 Dec '22

*SMLR-Net: Selected news on labor and employment relations & human resource management* *December 19, 2022* *Title:* University of California Academic Workers Reach Deal to End Strike *Source:* The New York Times *Author:* Shawn Hubler *Date:* December 16, 2022 *Summary:* The University of California and academic workers announced a tentative labor agreement on Friday, signaling a potential end to a high-profile strike that has disrupted the prestigious, 10-campus public university system for more than a month. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3javTIu *Title:* WA Service Industry Bracing for Increase in Minimum Wage *Source:* The Seattle Times *Author:* Racquel Muncy *Date:* December 18, 2022 *Summary:* Many businesses in the Washington service industry are grappling with how to handle the upcoming increase in the minimum wage. The minimum wage will increase to $15.74 per hour in January. The $1.25 increase, or 8.7%, will give the state the highest minimum wage in the country. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3hEPlg7 *Title:* Amazon Workers Will Go On Formal Strike for the First Time in the UK *Source:* CNBC *Author: * Ryan Browne *Date:* December 16, 2022 *Summary:* Hundreds of Amazon workers will go on strike, Britain’s GMB union said Friday, marking a first for the company’s employees in the U.K. Employees at Amazon’s Coventry warehouse in central England voted Friday to go on strike, with the walkout likely to happen in January 2023. Roughly 1,000 people work at the Coventry facility. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3FD6cb2 *Title:* Starbucks Union Strikes at Dozens of Stores as Talks Stall *Source:* The New York Times *Author:* Noam Scheiber *Date:* December 16, 2022 *Summary:* Workers are pressing for a contract and accuse the company of anti-labor tactics. Management blames the union for the lack of bargaining progress. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3PEu0jt *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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December 16, 2022
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16 Dec '22

*SMLR-Net: Selected news on labor and employment relations & human resource management* *December 16, 2022* *Title:* Student Athletes Should Be Classified Employees, Labor Cop Says *Source:* Politico *Author:* Nick Niedzwiadek *Date:* December 15, 2022 *Summary:* NLRB officials in Los Angeles determined that the NCAA, along with the Pac-12 Conference and the University of Southern California, are joint employers of athletes — an assessment that could ultimately allow student athletes to unionize. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3PwDihf *Title:* NLRB Union Election Rule Changes May Hamper Employee Free Choice *Source:* Bloomberg *Author:* Christy Bergstresser and Robert Dumbacher *Date:* December 15, 2022 *Summary:* Hunton Andrews Kurth attorneys examine the NLRB’s proposed rule changes governing how workers choose whether to be represented by unions. They say the rules could complicate the election process and deny workers a free and fair choice. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3V4W2pt *Title:* Chief Nurse Calls for Strike Resolution After Day of Action *Source:* BBC News *Author: * BBC News *Date:* December 15, 2022 *Summary:* England's chief nurse says she would like to see a resolution to nurses' strikes as soon as possible, as tens of thousands of nurses took action across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Staff expressed anger that they felt forced to strike for more pay. The UK government says the Royal College of Nursing's pay demands are unaffordable. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3FC99c5 *Title:* What Is a “Culture Budget”? *Source:* The New York Times *Author:* Emma Goldberg *Date:* December 16, 2022 *Summary:* What do magicians, bounce houses, kegs and pickleball have in common? The answer, at some companies, is an expense code known as the “culture budget.” *Link:* https://bit.ly/3PyD8pB *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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December 15, 2022
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15 Dec '22

*SMLR-Net: Selected news on labor and employment relations & human resource management* *December 15, 2022* *Title:* Why the Government Fails to Limit Many Dangerous Chemicals in the Workplace *Source:* NPR *Author:* Sharon Lerner *Date:* December 15, 2022 *Summary:* Paralyzed by industry lawsuits from decades ago, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has all but given up on trying to set a truly protective threshold for ortho-toluidine and thousands of other chemicals. The agency has only updated standards for three chemicals in the past 25 years; each took more than a decade to complete. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3WjxEkP *Title:* Lawmakers Propose Raising Teachers’ Minimum Salaries to $60K to Stem ‘Mass Exodus’ *Source:* ABC News *Author:* Arthur Jones II *Date:* December 14, 2022 *Summary:* The American Teacher Act would incentivize states to raise their minimum teacher salaries to $60,000 for public K-12 schools through a grant program at the Department of Education. The legislation would also mandate yearly increases congruent to inflation to support states' ongoing efforts to ensure competitive wages. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3FUpV7p *Title:* Threatening Migrants and Shortchanging Workers *Source:* Economic Policy Institute *Author: * Daniel Costa *Date:* December 15, 2022 *Summary:* Immigration is the government’s top federal law enforcement priority, while labor standards enforcement agencies are starved for funding and too understaffed to adequately protect workers *Link:* https://bit.ly/3Przwpy *Title:* Largest Nursing Strike in NHS History Starts *Source:* BBC News *Author:* Jim Reed *Date:* December 15, 2022 *Summary:* Nurses in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have started a nationwide strike in the largest action of its kind in NHS history. Staff will continue to provide "life-preserving" and some urgent care but routine surgery and other planned treatment is likely to be disrupted. The Royal College of Nursing said staff had been given no choice after ministers refused to reopen pay talks. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3YttjgI *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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December 14, 2022
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14 Dec '22

*SMLR-Net: Selected news on labor and employment relations & human resource management* *December 14, 2022* *Title:* Unions, Rails Clash Over Hiring Data as Union Pacific Faces Regulatory Heat in Washington *Source:* CNBC *Author:* Lori Ann LaRocco *Date:* December 13, 2022 *Summary:* Union Pacific’s use of embargoes, a freight railroad practice in which trade is stopped in order to clear up congestion, is at the center of a two-day hearing at the Surface Transportation Board in Washington, D.C., that started Tuesday. Also under scrutiny: the railroad’s staffing data, including new hiring and retention of existing employees, which union officials at the hearing say doesn’t present the full picture of declining employment in the sector. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3hq1a9L *Title:* New Penalties for Companies that Illegally Fire Workers Who Unionize *Source:* The Washington Post *Author:* Lauren Kaori Gurley *Date:* December 13, 2022 *Summary:* Companies that illegally fire or demote unionizing workers can now be held responsible for workers’ financial demise — including credit card late fees, lost housing or cars and health-care costs — in a move that could help some workers who have been fired from Starbucks and Amazon, labor activists say. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3hq1ANn *Title:* Private Workers’ Pay Growth Outpaces Public Sector *Source:* BBC News *Author: * Dearbail Jordan *Date:* December 13, 2022 *Summary:* Workers in the private sector saw their average pay rise by 6.9% between August and October, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). That compares to wage growth of just 2.7% for public sector employees. Thousands of workers are set to go on strike this week, including nurses who expect to stage their first-ever nationwide walkout on Thursday. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3W7pOe6 *Title:* Men and Women Asked for Raises This Year at the Same Rate, But Men Were More Likely to Get Them *Source:* CNBC *Author:* Jennifer Liu *Date:* December 13, 2022 *Summary:* In response to rising prices in the last 12 months, the same share of men and women, 11%, say they asked their boss for a raise, according to the recent CNBC Make It: Your Money survey of over 5,120 American adults, conducted in partnership with Momentive. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3UV2VcD *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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December 13, 2022
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13 Dec '22

*SMLR-Net: Selected news on labor and employment relations & human resource management* *December 13, 2022* *Title:* N.J. Public Workers, Towns Push Big Changes to Avert Massive Health Insurance Rate Hikes *Source:* NJ Advance Media for NJ.com *Author:* Derek Hall *Date:* December 12, 2022 *Summary:* Premiums for local government workers are set to increase by 20% January 1 after a state health board voted in September to approve the increases. Union leaders and local governments have for months warned the rate hikes could lead to layoffs and property tax increases. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3UMSzM4 *Title:* A Diminished US Workforce Could Lead Fed to Keep Rates High *Source:* Associated Press *Author:* Christopher Rugaber *Date:* December 12, 2022 *Summary:* Still eager to hire, America’s employers are posting more job openings than they did before the pandemic struck 2½ years ago. Problem is, there aren’t enough applicants. The nation’s labor force is smaller than when the pandemic struck. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3Brcn0H *Title:* The World Cup Is Ending, But the Migrant Labor Economy Grinds On *Source:* The New York Times *Author: * Nicole Salazar, Pramod Acharya and Sarah Kerr *Date:* December 12, 2022 *Summary:* The World Cup was a $220 billion construction project powered by migrant workers. We went to Nepal — a major source of labor for Qatar — to find out what’s driving workers to do dangerous jobs that many say they can’t afford to lose. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3BvGDYf *Title:* Railroad Unions Hopeful Biden Will Act To Give Workers Paid Sick Time *Source:* CNN Business *Author:* Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich *Date:* December 12, 2022 *Summary:* Railroad workers could get the paid sick days that were at the heart of their threat to go on strike – if the Biden administration steps in with an executive order. Workers have been unsuccessful getting their demands for paid sick leave met through months of negotiations with the freight rail companies, or through congressional action. But on Friday, 70 Democrats in Congress signed a letter asking for President Joe Biden or some federal agency to issue an order giving rail workers the seven sick days a year they were seeking. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3uK9295 *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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December 12, 2022
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12 Dec '22

*SMLR-Net: Selected news on labor and employment relations & human resource management* *December 12, 2022* *Title:* Japan Needs Indian Tech Workers. But Do They Need Japan? *Source:* The New York Times *Author:* Joseph Coleman *Date:* December 12, 2022 *Summary:* Recruiters call the push a crucial test of whether the world’s third-largest economy can compete with the U.S. and Europe for global talent. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3UJXpK5 *Title:* Some Bosses Embrace Work From Home to Keep Wages Down *Source:* Bloomberg *Author:* Michael Sasso *Date:* December 9, 2022 *Summary:* With potential hires in short supply, companies increase their recruiting in areas where pay is lower. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3hdntQ5 *Title:* University of California Academic Workers Partly End Strike *Source:* The New York Times *Author: * Shawn Hubler *Date:* December 10, 2022 *Summary:* Postdoctoral employees and academic researchers said they will return to work on Monday after ratifying a new contract, but workers who help teach undergraduates and assign grades remain on strike. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3W8GYYH *Title:* Britain Braces for Winter of Strike Action as Nurses Walk Out *Source:* Reuters *Author:* Sarah Young *Date:* December 12, 2022 *Summary:* British nurses will go on strike this week, hitting already stretched hospitals and cranking up pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to quell the biggest wave of industrial action to hit the country in decades. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3iUau6a *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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