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    News Article ● Unionization

    Could Netflix be the next big tech company to unionize?

    May 20, 2022 // Netflix’s updated dictum is a clear message that it doesn’t plan to change its content menu to cater to the tastes of its workforce. But as the Netflix worker demand list indicates, some employees are simply looking to influence company culture, which may, as a byproduct, influence the choices the company makes.

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    News Article ● Labor Unionization

    Amazon, Starbucks, and beyond? Young workers fuel union drives.

    May 19, 2022 // Much of the energy behind these moves is coming from the newest entrants to the labor force: workers in their late 20s at the tail end of the millennial generation, such as Ms. Ross and Ms. Hyatt, and their successors, Generation Z, born between 1997 and 2012, who are beginning to land their first jobs. Many exude an organizing zeal not seen in decades.

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    News Article ● Corruption Unions

    Bass campaign calls police union ad ‘defamatory,’ demands that TV stations stop airing it

    May 12, 2022 // "Karen Bass never voted to appropriate taxpayer funds to USC, and none of the bills cited in the ad refer to USC,” he wrote. Kaufman said the campaign would pursue "legal remedies" against stations that continue to air the commercial.

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    News Article ● Strike Unions

    Cedars-Sinai Medical Center workers to strike

    May 2, 2022 //

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    Exclusive: 16 GOP Governors Oppose Biden’s Executive Order Creating Monopoly On Federal Construction Contracts

    April 26, 2022 // Reducing competition from some of the best union and nonunion construction firms and workers will exacerbate the construction industry’s skilled labor shortage, delay projects, and increase construction costs by estimates of 12% to 20% per project, which will result in fewer infrastructure improvements, less construction industry job creation, and higher taxes.

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    News Article ● Labor Strike Unions

    Sacramento schools again at risk of financial distress with enrollment declines, new contracts

    April 26, 2022 // Sacramento City Unified School District is again facing financial distress just weeks after it approved labor agreements to end its eight-day teacher strike, Sacramento county education officials said last week. The Sacramento Office of Education gave the district's budget a negative certification, stating the contracts and the strike itself would cost the district millions of dollars and could threaten insolvency.

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    News Article ● Strike Unions

    A grocery worker strike was imminent. Then came a 30-hour bargaining marathon

    April 6, 2022 // Ralphs responded Sunday with an equally combative statement, saying, “UFCW locals collected $23 million in membership dues from Ralphs associates, yet if their members choose to walkout, strike pay from the union would be $15 per hour.”

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    News Article ● Labor Strike Unions

    Hundreds of LA County union workers rally at Grand Park to protest low wages; possible strike looms

    April 5, 2022 //

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    News Article ● Labor Unions

    Unions prepare to fight as California state departments order employees back to offices

    April 5, 2022 // Union leaders are pointing to pandemic directives from Gov. Gavin Newsom to help make their case. Newsom said early in the pandemic that the state would offer permanent telework options for employees, citing savings on leased building space and reductions to traffic and air pollution.

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    FREEDOM FOUNDATION PUTS CALIFORNIA UNIONS ON THE DEFENSIVE

    March 18, 2022 // Freedom Foundation attorneys representing public-sector workers free of charge will argue three cases in federal court in the Central District of California. These cases represent not only novel legal issues on the cutting edge of post-Janus litigation, but disturbing facts that should give every freedom-loving Californian pause

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