LABOR UPDATES

• 80 workers at Trader Joes in MN have filed for an election.  This is the second store to file for an election following the store in Hadley MA.
• 30 workers at Live Nation, Brooklyn Bowl in Philadelphia are organizing with IATSE
• According to the NLRB General Counsel, “Based on a 1970 case called Ex-Cell-O, the remedy for an unlawful refusal to bargain is typically a prospective bargaining order, which provides no incentive for employers to bargain in good faith at an earlier date as required by the National Labor Relations Act…. The motion urges the Board to include as part of its remedial orders a requirement that employers make employees whole with monetary relief for the lost opportunity to make gains through the collective bargaining process….”
• NEW: The NLRB’s St. Louis office is seeking a Joy Silk bargaining order at a Kansas City Starbucks where the company allegedly rebuffed two demands for recognition by a majority of workers
• DSA Labor just sent out a Labor Membership Survey and to elicit how DSA members are engaged with the labor movement. 
• Physicians and Medical Care Providers at Piedmont Health Services Have Petitioned to Form a Service Providers’ Union
• The NNOC has filed a petition at Coral Gables Hospital in FL
• Corporate campaigns continue against many places. Fast Food & Restaurants are ranking high on the hitlist. Our research team has found many more.