LaborUnionNews.com's Morning News Digest for Tuesday, March 8, 2022
FEATURED STORIES: A Deeper Dive Into White House Task Force Report On Worker Organizing, Why Starbucks Employees Are Unionizing & A Web Platform Just Helped Workers Unionize
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FEATURED STORIES:
1. A Deeper Dive into the White HouseTask Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment
2. Here Are Some Top Reasons Starbucks Workers Are Unionizing (In Their Own Words...er...Tweets)
3. NC Piedmont Health Services Providers Unionize Using Web-Based Organizing Platform
...UnitWorkers.com is 'a platform that helps you and your coworkers form a labor union'...
...UNIT: How to talk to your coworkers about unionizing...
NLRB Petitions & Charges: March 4, 2022 (for paid subscribers)
73 Total Entries
BARGAINING NEWS
It took 3 years, but Cascades workers in Niagara Falls ratify first contract
UFCW: Strike votes scheduled for Ralphs, Albertsons, Vons, and Pavilions in California
...Grocery Workers To Decide Whether To Go On Strike After Contract Expires...
GMG Union Reaches ‘Fair Contract’ After First Strike in Digital Media History [PDF]
UFCW Local 655 Contract Talks Under Way With Schnucks, Dierbergs
ECONOMIC NEWS
Wall St slides as oil prices surge, Nasdaq confirms bear market
White House: Corporate Power Keeps U.S. Wages 20% Lower Than They Should Be
Bloomberg: For AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler, It’s No Retreat, No Surrender in $15 Per Hour Wage War
FEE: Why College Degrees Are Working Against Many Job-Seekers
GENERAL UNION NEWS
‘Circular Firing Squad’–SEIU Local 1000 power struggle expands; president suspended
Beer distributor J.J. Taylor selling Minnesota business, 180 to be laid off; Teamsters’ fate unknown
Backed by Local Officials, Harvard Unions Revive Push to Merge
Tampa Bay Labor Leaders Slam Legislation That Could Weaken Florida’s Public Sector Unions
GOVERNMENT UNION NEWS
As Union Prepares to Vote on Contract, Some Duluth Plow Drivers Refuse to Work
AFSCME: Workers in the U.S. are waking up to the union difference.
Green Mountain Transit, union agree on new contract for rural drivers
AFGE 96 Holds Silent Protest for EMS Workers at John Cochran VA Medical Center
Teamsters: 400 Inglewood Unified School District Employees Vote To Unionize
HEALTH CARE UNION NEWS
Nearly 2,000 Home Care Workers to Receive $1.4 Million From State in Back Pay Bonuses
UVM Medical Center Declines to Recognize Resident Union...Resident docs cite 'burnout, poor working conditions and patient safety concerns'...
Nursing Home Workers in Lewiston Plan to Strike Over Staffing, Wages
After two years fighting COVID, nurses wonder: What has really changed?
LABOR DISPUTES
Seattle concrete strike has put psychiatric hospital construction six months behind
‘It’s just a simple tactic’–Why one striker is confident Eaton won’t replace union workers
NLRB NEWS
Summary of NLRB Decisions for Week of February 21 - 25, 2022
Buffalo Starbucks workers’ allegations against the company, and how the NLRB might handle them
Employers Beware: NLRB Expands Scope of Protected Concerted Activity
NLRB’s GC Abruzzo Calls for End of Trump-era Test for Workplace Rules
Labor Board’s Pending Work Rule Change Muddles Employer Strategy
ORGANIZING NEWS
Ohio State University’s Wexner Center for the Arts workers want to unionize
Mountaire Farms Employees Petition to Decertify Teamsters Union
Colorado Springs Starbucks demanding union recognition...
POLITICAL NEWS
TEACHERS UNION NEWS
Chicago Public Schools to drop mask mandate; teachers union vows to fight…
DEAL: St. Paul Teachers, School District Reach Tentative Deal, Avoiding Strike
...NO DEAL: Minneapolis teachers set to strike...
NRTW: Public Educators Have Right to Rebuff Union Officials’ Demands That They Abandon Students
UNION CORRUPTION
SEIU official who submitted fraudulent time to CalPERS won’t regain six months’ pay, judge rules
...returned to work at CalPERS and currently SEIU steward...