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Posted by Kimberly Ricci | Mar 18, 2024 | Bargaining/Negotiations, Industry, Labor Relations Ink, Labor Relations Insight, Service Industry, Strikes, Union Leaders, Union Organizing
That brings us to fresh news of a crumbled union at Medieval Times, eighteen months after workers in California voted to form the dinner theater company’s first union of knights, queens, and other costumed performers.
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Posted by Kimberly Ricci | Mar 7, 2024 | Industry, Labor Relations Ink, Labor Relations Insight, SEIU, Service Industry, Union Organizing, Unions, USSW
Everyone should feel safe in the workplace. Nobody questions this truth. Yet it’s also a sad reality that workers have experienced dangerous situations within many industries.
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Posted by Kimberly Ricci | Feb 26, 2024 | Courts, Industry, Labor Relations Ink, Labor Relations Insight, Legal, NLRB, Retail, Service Industry, Union Organizing
Last November, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) delivered some of its trademark rulemaking whiplash with a new final rule to considerably increase the number of businesses defined as “joint employers.”
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Posted by Kimberly Ricci | Feb 19, 2024 | Artificial Intelligence, Industry, Labor Relations Ink, Labor Relations Insight, Legal, SEIU, Service Industry, States, Union Leaders, Union Leaders, Union Organizing, Unions
“Unions are playing checkers, while companies are playing chess.” Kerr further explains that “automation has already been operationally deployed that can replace line workers” at McDonald’s, Burger King, Jack-in-the-Box, and Carl’s Jr in California.
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Posted by Kimberly Ricci | Feb 12, 2024 | Industry, Labor Relations Ink, Labor Relations Insight, Leadership, SEIU, Service Industry, Trending, Union Leaders, Union Organizing, Unions
However, the fast food council council will still be able to set wages for this industry, and four of the council seats are likely to be controlled by – get this – the California Fast Food Workers Union, which was announced late last week as a new invention of the SEIU.
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