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Legislation & politics

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 30 2009

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has asked Hyatt Hotels’ President and CEO to reconsider the company’s decision to fire 98 nonunion housekeeping employees at three Boston area hotels and replace them with low-wage workers from a contracting company and stated that he will direct all state employees not to use Hyatt when traveling or for other purposes while on state business if the workers are not rehired

Crime & corruption

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 30 2009

According to a complaint filed by a former NFL Players Association director of human services, the U.S. Department of Labor is investigating alleged collusion between the union and team owners

Administrative & court decisions

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 30 2009

The NLRB ruled that Starbucks baristas working in a Milwaukee, WI Hilton hotel cannot be accreted to an existing bargaining unit of hotel employees represented by UNITE HERE because the baristas have a separate identity from the other hotel workers and, thus, constitute a separate bargaining unit

Strikes & labor disputes

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 30 2009

Hundreds of Chicago and San Francisco hotel workers represented by UNITE HERE participated in sit-ins resulting in nearly 300 arrests after contracts covering approximately 16,500 workers and 69 hotels expired in August

Major contract settlements & negotiations

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 30 2009

United Steelworker represented employees rejected an offer from ArcelorMittal to reopen its Georgetown, SC mill in exchange for accepting a reduced work week of 32 hours and a $3.65 per hour pay cut

Organizing

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 30 2009

Gallup poll results reveal that for the first time since the 1930s, the majority of Americans disapprove of unions and believe they harm the U.S. economy

Miscellaneous

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 30 2009

The National Air Traffic Controllers Association has elected Paul M. Rinaldi as its new president

AFL-CIO convention

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 30 2009

The AFL-CIO held its quadrennial convention before more than 1,000 union delegates in Pittsburgh on September 13-17

House committee to hold hearings on TARP recipients' executive compensation practices

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 19 2009

The House Oversight and Governmental Affairs Committee will hold hearings on the executive compensation practices of companies who received Troubled Asset Relief Program funds

Employer’s access of employee’s cell phone did not violate the Stored Communications Act

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 3 2013

The Fifth Circuit held that an employee's cell phone was not covered under the Stored Communications Act and therefore her employer did not violate the