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A new Starbucks is coming to the Elmwood Village

The Buffalo News
Starbucks plans to open a new Elmwood store less than a mile away from the original Elmwood store that organized in 2021. "Under federal law, an employer is free to close a store as long as it is not done to avoid unionization," said Cathy Creighton, director of the Buffalo Co-Lab.
A new Starbucks is coming to the Elmwood Village

Bernie Sanders wants the US to adopt a 32-hour workweek. Could workers and companies benefit?

AP News
The Fair Labor Standards Act, signed into law in 1938, imposed workplace protections that included limiting the workweek to 44 hours. The landmark law followed a century of labor-union efforts seeking protections for the many overworked people in the U.S., said Tejasvi Nagaraja, a labor historian at ILR.
Bernie Sanders wants the US to adopt a 32-hour workweek. Could workers and companies benefit?

Import prices rose more slowly in February. That could help bring down inflation.

Marketplace
The consumer price index can be affected by import prices, whether they’re picking up or slowing down, said Erica Groshen from the ILR School
Import prices rose more slowly in February. That could help bring down inflation.

NWSL free agency becomes tool to keep league competitive in new world of women's soccer

CBS Sports
Dean Alex Colvin discusses the future of free agency and what the National Women's Soccer League's collective bargaining agreements may look like down the line.
NWSL free agency becomes tool to keep league competitive in new world of women's soccer

US labour watchdog attracts enemies from Amazon to SpaceX

Financial Times
Kate Bronfenbrenner, director of Labor Education Research at ILR, says “If this goes in favor of these companies, it is not just the NLRB. It’s every single agency federal agency that uses administrative law judges.”
US labour watchdog attracts enemies from Amazon to SpaceX

Her son was doing well at a clinic serving kids with autism. Then private equity took over.

NBC News
This article mentions research by Rosemary Batt, professor of women and work at ILR, and a colleague who found that private-equity firms did 85% of buyouts of autism services companies from 2017 to 2022.
Her son was doing well at a clinic serving kids with autism. Then private equity took over.

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