October 24, 2022 - Smlr_net

24 Oct 2022


      *SMLR-Net: Selected news on labor and employment relations & human resource
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*October 24, 2022*
*Title:*                    Starbucks Showdown in Boston Points to New
Phase of Union Campaign
*Source:*               The New York Times
*Author:*               Noam Scheiber
*Date:*                   October 24, 2022
*Summary:*          The company moved to contain the labor push after it
took off nationally. Now, with strikes and other tactics, organizers seek
to regain momentum.
*Link:*                    https://nyti.ms/3DriP9g
*Title:*                    Paying the Disabled Like Everyone Else Would
Reduce Poverty, Economists Say
*Source:*               Ohio Capital Journal
*Author:*               Marty Schladen
*Date:*                   October 24, 2022
*Summary:*          Ohio’s minimum wage is set to increase in January from
$9.30 an hour to $10.10, but unless the law changes the disabled will be
left far behind. They can currently earn the state’s “subminimum” wage of
$4.25 an hour and can be paid substantially less than that, NBC 4 reported.
Now Ohio Reps. Brigid Kelly, D-Cincinnati, and Dontavius Jerrells,
D-Columbus want to raise it to where it will be for most other workers.
*Link:*                    https://bit.ly/3VUfpmE
*Title:*                   Wisconsin Workers Show Renewed Energy After
Decade of Anti-Union Laws
*Source:*               PBS Wisconsin / Wisconsin Watch
*Author: *              Jacob Resneck
*Date:*                   October 19, 2022
*Summary:*          While union leaders say private sector efforts to
organize are on the rise, formerly unionized employees switch tactics,
using a collective voice to force change.
*Link:*                    https://bit.ly/3TxrLzq
*Title:*                    Iran’s Labor Strikes Give Protest Movement
Added Momentum
*Source:*               The Wall Street Journal (Access via Free Limited
Accounts or Rutgers Libraries)
*Author:*               Benoit Faucon
*Date:*                   October 23, 2022
*Summary:*          Iran’s labor unions are helping antigovernment protests
maintain momentum by calling for strikes at oil facilities, schools and
factories, opening another front in the upheaval inside the country.
*Link:*                    https://on.wsj.com/3eZDFTO
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