LaborUnionNews.com's Morning News Digest for Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Top Stories: Amazon and the Cost of Unions

TOP STORIES…

Morgan Stanley explains how unions could affect Amazon’s bottom line

...“Every 1% of Amazon’s front-line workforce that unionize would lead to an incremental $150 million of annual [operating expenses]”…

FLASHBACK: The Union Tax: How Unions Cost Companies And Jobs

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NLRB Petitions & Charges: April 1, 2022 (for paid subscribers)

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MORE NEWS…

BARGAINING NEWS

• GROCERY STRIKE AVERTED IN SOCAL!

• Queen Kapiolani hotel workers vote 97% to strike, citing low wages and overwork

• 415 workers vote to strike at St. Cloud bus manufacturing plant

• Luxury NY Apartment Dwellers to Take Out Own Trash if Workers Strike

• Federal Mediator to be involved in ISU and worker’s union negotiations

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ECONOMIC NEWS

• FLASHBACK: Gen Z prefers “socialism” to “capitalism”

• Starbucks halts stock buybacks, announces pivot to employees amid union push

• Amazon, Alphabet and Others Are Quietly Rolling Out Drone Delivery Across America

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GENERAL UNION NEWS

• ICYMI: Emily Ratajkowski, Rosario Dawson, Michael B. Jordan, Zoe Kravitz and plenty more crossed post-Oscars party picket line.

• Teamsters Laud Progress On Biden-Harris Trucking Action Plan

• Labor Unions Could Change The Game For Starbucks, Amazon

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HEALTH CARE UNION NEWS

• WSWS: 5,000 California nurses to take strike vote at Stanford and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospitals

• Several Hundred Howard University Hospital Workers Plan To Strike This Month

• Contract negotiations continue for UPHS – Marquette nurses, tech staff

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LABOR DISPUTES

• CWA: Historic one-day strike at ‘ObamaCare’ Maximus call centers

• Union workers on strike at Sheboygan manufacturing company

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LEGAL NEWS

• Murkowski, Romney back Jackson, all but assure confirmation

• Washington Lyft, Uber Driver Deal Not Safe from Court Challenge

• Unions Argue To Keep Emergency Standard In DC Circuit

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ORGANIZING NEWS

• Greenhouse: How Amazon Employees Won Their First Union

• Vice: The Amazon Labor Union Took On America’s Most Powerful Company—and Won

• Victory at Amazon Site Leads Other Unions to Rethink Strategy

• Workers at St. Louis medical marijuana dispensary vote to form a union

• Amazon workers won the company’s first US union — here’s what happens next

• Starbucks CEO: Companies across country “being assaulted in many ways by the threat of unionization.” (video)

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POLITICAL NEWS

• CWA Urges FTC, DOJ to Prioritize Labor Market Impacts as Agencies Prepare to Overhaul Corporate Merger Guidelines

• ALU President to CNN: ‘Democrats didn’t support our campaign’

• Florida Faculty Union Urges Ignoring ‘Intellectual Freedom’ Surveys

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UNION CORRUPTION

• UFCW Local 455: A Family Affair?

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