National Labor Relations Board

• David J. Dykeman and Terence P. McCourt, co-managing shareholders of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP's Boston office, were named among the "Top Managing Partners in Massachusetts" by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.
• BOSTON, March 25, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- David J. Dykeman and Terence P. McCourt , co-managing shareholders of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP 's Boston office , were named among the "Top Managing Partners in Massachusetts" by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.
• Dykeman and McCourt are featured in the publication's March 25 issue .
• In 2023, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly named McCourt as a "Go To Employment Lawyer."

• The Strategic Organizing Center (the “SOC”), a shareholder of Starbucks Corporation (Nasdaq: SBUX) (“Starbucks” or the “Company”), today announced the release of an investor presentation detailing the urgent need for change at the Company.
• The presentation – titled “Brew a Better Starbucks” – is available at www.BrewABetterStarbucks.com .
• View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240220437846/en/
  The SOC stated: “Starbucks is an iconic company that has lost its way.
• Most importantly, these nominees possess expertise sorely lacking on the current Board.

• The strike shuts down production at the only brewery that services the entire Western region of the United States with major Molson Coors products.
• "Molson Coors put itself on strike by taking for granted the Teamsters who keep the beer flowing and the brewery operating.
• On Feb. 8, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters announced it increased strike benefits to $1,000 per week for members of Local 997 fighting for a new contract at Molson Coors in Fort Worth.
• Rank-and-file Teamsters produce Coors Light, Topo Chico, Simply, Pabst, and Yuengling, among other Molson Coors beverage brands.

• This supports the broad expectation – some might say stereotype – that full-time employment is the norm for American men.
• Yet examining employment at a single point in time leaves out important information about whether people are able to maintain stable work.
• Our recent study of male baby boomers’ working lives – spanning more than two decades – tells a very different story.
• Another quarter either found themselves increasingly unemployed and out of work as they aged or able to find only intermittent work.

Problems with precarity

• For example, we found that men who worked as “operators, fabricators and laborers” or in “precision production, craft and repairs” were at greater risk of unemployment.
• These are jobs that provided our own grandfathers with good, well-paying work, but they are also jobs that have become increasingly rare since the 1970s.
• That latter point likely put them at greater risk of job loss when those jobs went overseas in the 1980s and 1990s.

Ideas for improvement

• Our research shows that a college degree could protect men from the risk of unemployment or time out of work.
• The government can support this goal by making college more affordable for workers, as the current administration has proposed doing.
• For employers, our findings suggest that making work less precarious – in other words, making it more stable, with better pay and more schedule control – would be a win-win proposition.
• But the good news is that we can heed the warning and take steps to give everyone access to better jobs and more stable employment.

Sarah Damaske receives/has received funding from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Science Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, the American Sociological Association, and the Pennsylvania State University and its Population Research Institute. Adrianne Frech has received funding from the National Institutes of Health.