The #restaurant #industry has long coordinated efforts to suppress labor costs through the #NRA, a multimillion-dollar #lobbying machine funded both by its restaurant members and by the fees #workers pay for required food-safety classes, according to a recent New York Times report.

The group has spent its #war chest on lobbying campaigns to preserve a subminimum #wage for tipped workers — who are disproportionately young, women, and people of color, and far more likely to live in #poverty than regular minimum wage workers — and to help block state and federal sick leave proposals and minimum wage increases.

But now, restaurant executives are on edge. #Union campaigns are suddenly penetrating their industry, which employs about 10 percent of the American #workforce and has one of the lowest #unionization rates of any sector. Over the past few years, baristas have #unionized nearly 280 Starbucks stores in the face of enormous odds, and dozens of other coffee #shops and restaurants have followed suit.

“The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, every newspaper reports on every union win… when an unfair labor practice charge is filed, when there are challenges to elections,” said Felice Ekelman, a principal at Jackson Lewis, one of the oldest and most infamous union avoidance law firms in the country. “When did this become first page #news?”

“And guess who’s reading it?” replied Laura Pierson-Scheinberg, one of Ekelman’s Jackson Lewis colleagues, as the two sat across from each other on the main stage of the summit. “My kids. Literally. I have an 18-year-old, my kids are into it.”

The two lawyers were discussing a new threat for the restaurant industry: the unexpected rise of union campaigns in workplaces that, for decades, have largely been immune from such organizing efforts.

“Before, I used to say… ‘[Unionization] isn’t a problem for you in the restaurant industry,’” said Pierson-Scheinberg. But now, she warned, “Kids do not care about paying union dues. Two percent of pay, are you kidding me? Their Netflix costs more. They think it’s a hell of a deal.”

The “kids,” she added, are #organizing #workplaces which would have previously seemed unreachable.

https://www.levernews.com/fear-and-loathing-among-the-union-busters/

https://invidious.privacydev.net/watch?v=aHHWgG7dB6A&listen=false&t=97

#NarcissismAndItsDiscontents Dr #RamaniDurvasula #TEDxSedona
#psychology #work #workplaces #relationships #entitlement #corporations #corporategreed

The New “#HybridWork” is “#AI + #Humans”
https://daily.jstor.org/the-new-hybrid-work-is-ai-plus-humans
The major transformation in the where of modern #workplaces is about to collide with a transformation in who is doing that #work.

Wrote a thing about the difference between creating, practicing, and performing knowledge: https://www.ecosystemsandentrepreneurs.com/blog/2023/7/10/the-difference-between-creating-practicing-and-performing-knowledge

#Workplaces #WorkCulture #Startups #Tech #SocialMedia #Knowledge

Hybrid #workplaces appear to be the future of corporate offices.

https://time.com/6280986/hybrid-office-return-to-work-design/

#Logitech #DockFlex and its concept of dynamic #workplaces is an interesting approach IMHO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmUpuM1RN4M

Are you sitting in a similar working environment with different places? How it is going for you?

#Meatpacking #workers in southeast #Iowa are now—officially—gearing up to organize into labor #unions at their respective #workplaces.

https://iowastartingline.com/2023/04/24/southeast-iowa-meatpacking-workers-forming-union/

Wrote something for The Early Manager newsletter about the practice of stillness: https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=f97da7caaf48b7568eadbaf85&id=72ed72eb68

#BuildingTeams #Workplaces #WorkplaceCulture #ManagerTips #LongLeadListening #TheEarlyManager

#SupremeCourt showdown over #Sabbath could change #workplaces across US
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-showdown-sabbath-change-workplaces-us/story?id=98027258

Manager tips / frameworks (continued)

4) How long lead listening increases trust, alignment, and speed: https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=f97da7caaf48b7568eadbaf85&id=52fef002a3

5) Why noticing/reworking language changes your team's habits: https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=f97da7caaf48b7568eadbaf85&id=ce6f92a8b4

6) What happens when you make internal operations visible: https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=f97da7caaf48b7568eadbaf85&id=fd10282e49

#TeamBuilding #EQAtWork #Workplaces #WorkplaceCulture #ManagerTips #InclusiveLeadership

EQ is only becoming more important with the rise of remote/hybrid work plus Gen Z's expectations...

Here are some recent newsletters for managers with useful tips, frameworks, and good reads:

1) How to structure a performance review: https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=f97da7caaf48b7568eadbaf85&id=f7258b104f

2) What makes a great manager: https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=f97da7caaf48b7568eadbaf85&id=2c26dd416c

3) Examples of tactics that create shared power across teams: https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=f97da7caaf48b7568eadbaf85&id=74d4dd82f7

#TeamBuilding #EQAtWork #Workplaces #WorkplaceCulture #ManagerTips #InclusiveLeadership

Generally, I don't comment on legislation taking place in a country other than my own. And I'm cognizant of the fact that Mental Health First Aid is administered separately in different countries.

But I think it's worth amplifying the voices of experts saying the secret part aloud.

As a certified MHFA instructor, I can say that there's merit to arguments made by both critics and advocates of MHFA. I recall seeing a LinkedIn poll about a year ago in which more than 70% of respondents said MHFA should be mandatory at #workplaces (which seems to be the point of debate in the UK — I haven't studied the legislation). This reflects naïveté about #MHFA and the #organizations selling it, and perhaps reflects well-meaning desperation regarding how to support the #mentalhealth of #workers.

https://www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/article/1819214/mental-health-first-aid-bill-cause-unintended-negative-consequences-experts-warn

4) How long lead listening increases trust, alignment, and speed: https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=f97da7caaf48b7568eadbaf85&id=52fef002a3

5) Why noticing/reworking language changes your team's habits: https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=f97da7caaf48b7568eadbaf85&id=ce6f92a8b4

6) What happens when you make internal operations visible: https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=f97da7caaf48b7568eadbaf85&id=fd10282e49

Sharing power and reworking how we work has both immediate and long-term positive impacts, and it can be done.

#TeamBuilding #EQAtWork #Workplaces #WorkplaceCulture #ManagerTips #InclusiveLeadership

4) How long lead listening increases trust, alignment, and speed: https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=f97da7caaf48b7568eadbaf85&id=52fef002a3

5) Why noticing/reworking language changes your team's habits: https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=f97da7caaf48b7568eadbaf85&id=ce6f92a8b4

6) What happens when you make internal operations visible: https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=f97da7caaf48b7568eadbaf85&id=fd10282e49

Sharing power and reworking how we work has both immediate and long-term positive impacts, and it can be done.

#TeamBuilding #EQAtWork #Workplaces #WorkplaceCulture #ManagerTips #InclusiveLeadership

For managers, EQ is only becoming more important with the rise of remote/hybrid work plus Gen Z's expectations...

Here are 6 recent TEM newsletters with tips & frameworks you can put to work immediately:

1) How to structure a performance review: https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=f97da7caaf48b7568eadbaf85&id=f7258b104f

2) What makes a great manager: https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=f97da7caaf48b7568eadbaf85&id=2c26dd416c

3) Examples of tactics that create shared power across teams: https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=f97da7caaf48b7568eadbaf85&id=74d4dd82f7

#TeamBuilding #EQAtWork #Workplaces #WorkplaceCulture #ManagerTips

The True Barriers to Immigrants in the Workplace Part II | Journey to Diversity Workplaces https://j2dw.co/3PYodUi #J2DW #Immigration #Workplaces #WorkplaceBarriers #ottnews #onpoli #cdnpoli @onpoli @cdnpoli

True Barriers to Immigrants in the Workplace Part I | Journey to Diversity Workplaces https://j2dw.co/3PSYWLq #J2DW #Immigration #Workplaces #WorkplaceBarriers #ottnews #onpoli #cdnpoli @cdnpoli

There's a lot to absorb from the data, but in a recent study of 3,400 people across 10 countries:

69% said their manager had the greatest impact on their mental health, on par with their partner

51% said their doctor had the greatest impact

41% said their therapist had the greatest impact

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tracybrower/2023/01/29/managers-have-major-impact-on-mental-health-how-to-lead-for-wellbeing/?sh=6dae976c2ec1

#BuildingTeams #Workplaces #WorkplaceCulture

Good read from @ranimolla on the balance between full-time & contract work in tech

As many people have observed, for workers, this can mean shifting into "treating your career like a company" so that cashflow, benefits, healthcare, etc., are handled differently

https://www.vox.com/recode/2023/2/9/23591549/tech-freelance-contract-independent-work-layoffs

#Tech #Layoffs #Workplaces #WorkplaceCulture

Understanding the Question of Gender Diversity in Power Positions | Journey to Diversity Workplaces https://j2dw.co/3PqPw9D #J2DW #GenderDiversity #SeniorManagement #Gender #Management #Workplaces #Barrie #onpoli #cdnpoli #noxp @onpoli @cdnpoli