MINIMUM WAGE HIKE IN EFFECT
On January 1, 2023, the minimum wage in California increased to $15.50 an hour for both large and small businesses. In addition, many...
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SSDS
- Jan 23
- 1 min
SSDS TO CELEBRATE LIFE OF FRED ROSS JR. ON FEBRUARY 26, 2022
Please join us in celebrating the life of Fred Ross Jr., a member of the SSDS family, and husband to Managing Partner Margo Feinberg. A...
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SSDS
- Jan 23
- 1 min
CITY OF LOS ANGELES PASSES UFCW LOCAL 770-SPONSORED FAIR WORK WEEK ORDINANCE
On November 22, the Los Angeles City Council passed an ordinance requiring retailers with 300 or more employees globally to give their...
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SSDS
- Jan 23
- 1 min
OVER 300 PRODUCTION WORKERS AT DAILY’S PREMIUM MEATS JOIN UFCW DISTRICT UNION LOCAL 2
Three hundred production workers in St. Joseph, Missouri joined UFCW District Union Local 2 after a card check authorization election...
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SSDS
- Jan 23
- 1 min
GRADUATE STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND RAND CORPORATION FILE REPRESENTATION
On the heels of impressive gains for academic student and postdoctoral workers at the University of California, workers at two other...
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SSDS
- Jan 23
- 1 min
NICKELODEON PRODUCTION WORKERS SET TO AUTHORIZE THE ANIMATION GUILD AS BARGAINING REPRESENTATIVE
A super-majority of animation production workers at Nickelodeon Animation Studios submitted authorization cards in support of The...
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SSDS
- Jan 23
- 1 min
UAW WORKERS AT UC RATIFY INDUSTRY LEADING CONTRACTS, ENDING THE LARGEST STRIKE OF THE YEAR WITH HIST
Forty days into the largest strike of the year, and the largest strike ever at any institute of higher education, 36,000 academic student...
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SSDS
- Nov 17, 2022
- 1 min
48,000 ACADEMIC WORKERS AT UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA STRIKE
Academic employees, including Teaching Assistants, Graduate Student Researchers, Postdocs, and Academic Researchers, across all ten...
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SSDS
- Nov 16, 2022
- 3 min
UFCW LOCAL 770 PRESIDENT JOHN GRANT RETIRES AFTER 46 YEARS
UFCW Local 770 President John Grant announced his retirement in September in a powerful speech at the Local’s Executive Board Meeting. A...
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SSDS
- Nov 15, 2022
- 1 min
SCOTUS GRANTS CERTIORARI IN GLACIER NORTHWEST
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in Glacier Northwest Inc. v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local Union No. 174, a case...
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SSDS
- Nov 15, 2022
- 1 min
KATHY FINN ELECTED PRESIDENT
SSDS extends its warmest congratulations to a dear friend and ally, UFCW Local 770 President Kathy Finn on her election. President Finn...
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SSDS
- Nov 15, 2022
- 1 min
UFCW LOCALS OPPOSE KROGER-ALBERTSONS MERGER
UFCW 5, 7, 324, 367, 770, 3000 have openly opposed the proposed merger between Albertsons and Kroger, which would result in the...
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SSDS
- Nov 14, 2022
- 1 min
NLRB REINSTATES POST-CONTRACT DUES CHECKOFF
In Valley Hospital II, the NLRB ruled that dues checkoff must continue after the expiration of a collective bargaining agreement until a...
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SSDS
- Oct 4, 2022
- 1 min
SSDS PARTNER DANIEL CURRY ADMITTED TO ARIZONA BAR
Congratulations to Dan Curry, whose bar licensures include New York, Kansas, and California. SSDS encourages its lawyers to seek...
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SSDS
- Oct 3, 2022
- 3 min
JUDGE UPHOLDS EMPLOYER RELIGIOUS OBJECTIONS TO COVERAGE OF HIV PREVENTION DRUG
By Richard Swartz, SSDS ERISA Partner In its 2014 Burwell v. Hobby Lobby decision, the Supreme Court found that the Religious Freedom...
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SSDS
- Oct 2, 2022
- 1 min
SWEET FLOWER CANNABIS EMPLOYEES VOTE TO JOIN UFCW LOCAL 770
In August, workers at Sweet Flower cannabis dispensaries in Culver City and Pasadena overwhelmingly voted to unionize. These shops will...
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SSDS
- Sep 23, 2022
- 1 min
SSDS WELCOMES NEW ASSOCIATE
Lovelace Lee IV is a Los Angeles native and attended the University of California, Riverside for undergrad, where he received a B.A. in...
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SSDS
- Sep 22, 2022
- 2 min
SSDS ATTORNEYS REVERSE TRUMP-ERA PRECEDENT ON WEARING UNION LOGOS AT WORK
On August 29, 2022, the NLRB reaffirmed that when an employer interferes “in any way” with its employees’ right to display union insignia...
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SSDS
- Jun 30, 2022
- 7 min
TAG Files RC Petitions; No Surprises Act; COVID and Religious Exemptions; ILO: New Rights at Work
July 1, 2022 ATTORNEY SPOTLIGHT: MICHAEL FEINBERG Michael Feinberg has spent every day of his 43-year legal career at Schwartz,...
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SSDS
- Jun 8, 2022
- 3 min
USC Workers Unionize; OSHA Ergonomics Citation; House Finds Meatpacking Abuses; SSDS Attys on Panel
June 8, 2022 WORKERS VOTE TO UNIONIZE WITH CIR/SEIU AT USC; INTERNS AND RESIDENTS PREPARE TO STRIKE AT LA COUNTY HOSPITALS Interns,...
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