*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

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