October 19, 2022 - Smlr_net

19 Oct 2022


      *SMLR-Net: Selected news on labor and employment relations & human resource
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*October 19, 2022*
*Title:*                    The Amazon Labor Union Suffers Another Loss But
Vows to Keep Fighting
*Source:*               Vox
*Author:*               Jason Del Rey
*Date:*                   October 18, 2022
*Summary:*          The Amazon Labor Union has lost its second straight
election at an Amazon warehouse, 406-206, delivering a blow to the momentum
the new union had built with its historic win in April and underscoring the
heavy odds stacked against organizing inside one of the world’s most
powerful and richest corporations.
*Link:*                    https://bit.ly/3EPGC3S
*Title:*                    Students, Legal Scholars Push California
Universities to Hire Undocumented Students
*Source:*               The New York Times
*Author:*               Miriam Jordan
*Date:*                   October 19, 2022
*Summary:*          With a soaring number of immigrant students not
eligible to work legally, a new campaign is urging the influential
University of California system to employ undocumented students.
*Link:*                    https://nyti.ms/3ScfZJA
*Title:*                   Post-Gazette Journalists Begin Strike, as
Contract Impasse Continues
*Source:*               90.5 WESA (Pittsburgh’s NPR News Station)
*Author: *              Patrick Doyle, Julia Zenkevich
*Date:*                   October 18, 2022
*Summary:*          Pittsburgh Post-Gazette journalists started a strike at
noon on Tuesday, following unmet demands from the Newspaper Guild of
Pittsburgh that the company "end its illegally declared impasse to contract
negotiations" and return to the bargaining table with the union.
*Link:*                    https://bit.ly/3gl5ZjG
*Title:*                    Agency Battling Wave Theft in California is Too
Short-Staffed to Do Its Job
*Source:*               CalMatters
*Author:*               Alejandro Lazo, Jeanne Kuang and Julie Watts
*Date:*                   October 17, 2022
*Summary:*          California’s laws targeting wage theft — which is the
failure by bosses to pay workers what they are owed — make it a leader
among states, national labor experts say. But in practice, enforcing those
laws has not been easy.
*Link:*                    https://bit.ly/3s5unZd
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