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NEW: Hundreds of tenants have launched the largest rent strike in decades. They're demanding a 3% national rent cap, collective rent bargaining, and more. These Kansas City tenants aren't just targeting their landlords, they're aiming at how the government treats renters.
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It's not just opposition to the PRO Act. As @bsachs noted, if Vance likes sectoral bargaining, why did he vote to kill the NLRB's joint employer rule, which could expand union footprints within sectors?
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"Legislative redistricting and bargaining-unit determinations both involve defining an electorate. But beyond that, the gerrymander analogy breaks down on closer inspection." Joel Heller on where analogies bw labor and democracy are useful -- versus not. onlabor.org/labor-laws-polit…
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And another thing! The U. of California’s TRO flouts CA’s Little Norris-LaGuardia anti-injunction act. On either UAW’s (ULP strike) or UC’s (political strike) view, the narrow "Boys Markets" exception wouldn’t apply, even if CA follows the feds. Details 👇 onlabor.org/the-uc-strike-in…
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Now in @OnLaborBlog, how the U. of Caliornia's TRO against the UAW strike is serious & destructive judicial overreach. This piece focuses on the end run around the CA labor board's "exclusive jurisdiction" over unfair labor practice (ULP) determinations. onlabor.org/the-uc-uaw-no-st…
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