The Co-Employer Fight at McDonald’s Searches for an Employer and a Strategy

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New Orleans       More than a thousand fast food workers rallied at a convention center near O’Hare Airport in Chicago in a boisterous, morale boosting event sponsored by the Service Employees International Union in the on-going campaign for a living wage. More interesting is the ongoing effort by the union to define the employer for many …

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Rulemaking that Matters on Deportations and Union Elections

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Lafayette   Often the devil is in fact in the details, and two important efforts at pushing hard on the details within the vast bureaucracy of governmental affairs matter hugely for people, making these initiatives worth following closely, and piling on to support them for reasons both large and small.             In one situation from the …

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More Battles in the Walmart Wars: Florida, Strikes, and Delhi

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New Orleans    The war room in Bentonville must be on 24 hour Def-con 4 alert these days, given the steady back and forth of advances, feints, and setbacks due to its “profits first, workers last” mantra that is a foundation of its standard operating procedures.             The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) after waiting for …

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