LaborUnionNews.com's Daily News Digest for Tuesday, February 1, 2022

The following are the top employee and labor-related news stories from LaborUnionNews.com.

Categories included in today’s digest are:

• FEATURED NEWS

• NLRB PETITIONS & CHARGES

• BARGAINING NEWS

• ECONOMIC NEWS

• GENERAL UNION NEWS

• GOVERNMENT UNION NEWS

• HEALTH CARE UNION NEWS

• HR NEWS

• LABOR DISPUTES

• LEGAL NEWS

• NLRB NEWS

• ORGANIZING NEWS

• POLITICAL NEWS

• TEACHERS UNION NEWS

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FEATURED STORY

Top NLRB Lawyer Launches Effort to Protect Union Campaigns

NLRB General Counsel Launches New 10(j) Injunction Initiative When Employers Threaten or Coerce Employees During Organizing Campaigns

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NLRB Petitions & Charges: Jan. 31, 2022 (for paid subscribers)

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BARGAINING NEWS

• No agreement reached in Mercy Health Muskegon contract negotiations

• Newly Organized California Cannabis Workers Ratify Historic Statewide Agreement

• Union, Marathon Keep Negotiating After Strike Deadline Passes

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ECONOMIC NEWS

• A Major Homebuilder Sees No Improvement Coming to the Supply Chain In 2022

• Home Depot plans to hire over 100K workers ahead of spring season

• NRTW: Businesses are Locating to Right to Work Arkansas!

• AAM:Workers of Color Suffered the Most Due to Factory Job Loss, But Manufacturing Still Pays a Premium

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GENERAL UNION NEWS

• California Assembly Passes Bill to Establish State Wide Fast-Food Council

• Union battle unfolds at GM in Mexico ahead of workers’ vote

• AFL-CIO Chalks Decline of Texas Union Membership Up To “Statistical Quirks”

• Media Matters: In a bellwether year for labor strikes, cable news coverage failed to meet the challenge

• T-Mobile to terminate corporate employees who aren’t vaccinated by April

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GOVERNMENT UNION NEWS

• San Antonio, Police Unions Pushing One Year Of Negotiations

• U.S. Supreme Court contender Jackson backs federal unions in first ruling

• A Zipper Clause: Why Agencies and Unions Fight Over It

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HEALTH CARE UNION NEWS

• SEIU raises concerns over medical debt of UPMC workers

• A Nebraska County Is Offering $75,000 In Student Loan Forgiveness To Attract RNs

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LABOR DISPUTES

• LaborPress: Seattle Concrete Strike Underscores ‘Deaths of Despair’

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NLRB NEWS

• NLRB weighs new legal standard for ‘gag orders’ in arbitration agreements

• NLRB puts Bates College union vote count on hold (Video)

• RELEASE: NLRB General Counsel Launches New 10(j) Injunction Initiative When Employers Threaten or Coerce Employees During Organizing Campaigns

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ORGANIZING NEWS

• ORGANIZERS UPSHIFT THEIR EFFORTS TO UNIONIZE STARBUCKS; 16 MORE STORES

• Starbucks Seeks to Quash Union Votes at 3 N.Y. Stores; Union was “gaming the system”

• Starbucks union push spreads to 54 stores in 19 states

• Three Portland-area Starbucks shops file to unionize

• Union Files For Two Starbucks Stores In Philadelphia

• Activision Exec Claims Unions Could ‘Hurt Our Ability to Create Great Games’

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POLITICAL NEWS

• SEIU launches six-figure ad buy pushing lawmakers to pass Build Back Better

• Universal health care bill fails to pass in California

• Democrats take aim at strike-combating employers

• Unions Among Top Donors of Massachusetts’ Voter Referendum To ‘Tax The Rich’

• AFL-CIO strongly backs U.S. House 2,900-page ‘critical’ bill on China competition, microchips

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TEACHERS UNION NEWS

• Minneapolis educators can now vote on whether union will go on strike

• Strike looms as Pleasant Valley School District, union schedule talks

• Proviso Teachers Union authorizes strike if agreement with IL District is not reached soon