*SMLR-Net: Selected news on labor and employment relations & human resource management*

*October 18, 2022*

*Title:* New Crack in Apple’s Armor as Dozens Strike at Its Stores in Australia

*Source:* The New York Times

*Author:* Yan Zhuang

*Date:* October 17, 2022

*Summary:* The uprising will be of keen interest in the U.S., where a second Apple store voted to unionize last week.

*Link:* https://nyti.ms/3yJYGbB

*Title:* The Immigrant Workforce Supports Millions of US Jobs

*Source:* Brookings

*Author:* Dany Bahar, Carlos Daboin Contreras, and Greg Wright

*Date:* October 17, 2022

*Summary:* As part of Brookings Workforce of the Future initiative’s ongoing efforts to identify immigration policies that benefit American workers, we present a new perspective on the role that immigrants play in the U.S. economy. Using the “complementarity index,” we show that immigrant workers are broadly complementary to natives, both because immigrants work in occupations that serve an unusually wide range of industries, and also because immigrant-intensive occupations often complement other jobs. Acknowledging this complementarity is essential given that current trends in occupation growth imply that the immigrant workforce will become increasingly central to the U.S. economy in the coming years.

*Link:* https://brook.gs/3giBFGF

*Title:* Alaska Airlines Pilots Approve New Agreement on Wages, Schedules

*Source:* The Seattle Times

*Author: * Lauren Rosenblatt

*Date:* October 17, 2022

*Summary:* The vote comes after Alaska Airlines management and the leadership of its pilot union, the Air Line Pilots Association, agreed to a tentative deal in September, which included pay raises and new work rules that would increase schedule flexibility and decrease the number of days pilots are away from home. The union said the agreement would also increase job security because Alaska Airlines agreed not to outsource flying to regional carriers without a specific exemption from the union.

*Link:* https://bit.ly/3T8SKBt

*Title:* Trains, Schools Affected as French Unions Call Strike Amid Soaring Inflation

*Source:* Reuters

*Author:* Benoit Van Overstraeten and Sudip Kar-gupta

*Date:* October 18, 2022

*Summary:* Regional train traffic in France was cut by about half on Tuesday as several unions called a nationwide strike, seeking to capitalise on anger with decades-high inflation to expand a weeks-long industrial action at oil refineries to other sectors. There were also some disruption to schools, as the strike primarily affected the public sector. Trade union leaders were hoping workers would be energised by the government's decision to force some of them to go back to work at petrol depots to try and get fuel flowing again, a decision some say put in jeopardy the right to strike.

*Link:* https://reut.rs/3MEQE9O

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