LaborUnionNews.com's Morning News Digest for Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Top Story: NLRB GC Files Brief To Install Card Check, Ban Mandatory Meetings
NLRB General Counsel Files Brief To Ban “Captive Audience” Meetings, Install Back-Door Card Check
READ: THE 93-PAGE NLRB GENERAL COUNSEL BRIEF IN CEMEX
BARGAINING NEWS
El Milagro Tortilla Workers Gain Improved Pay, Shorter Hours After Months of Negotiations
General Dynamics Shipyard Boss Leaves As Workers Get Up To 39% Pay Boost
ECONOMIC NEWS
Inflation gave most Americans a 2.7% salary cut in March
...FLASHBACK: CNN—Why inflation can actually be good for everyday Americans…
Lumber falls to fresh 2022 lows as spike in mortgage rates cools housing demand
Stellantis to Slash Hundreds of Jobs at Detroit-Area Auto Plants
Wages Rise for Many, But Not for Californians Most Hit by Inflation
GENERAL UNION NEWS
SEIU Local 1000 president used fake name in college, investigated for identity theft
IUOE Signs Training Partnership in Construction Autonomy Company ‘Built Robotics’
GOVERNMENT UNION NEWS
Largest Federal Employee Union Applauds White House Action on Worker Organizing
Less Than a Week after Social Security Offices Reopen, Unions Report a Mixed Bag
OPM Outlines Steps to Highlight Collective Bargaining Rights for Feds
More Than 38,000 Workers Have Left Government Unions In Illinois
State Labor Unions Calling For Resolution to State Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund Deficit
HEALTH CARE UNION NEWS
CT union warns five nursing homes of plans to strike on April 22
Palomar Health nurses say they’re being intimidated during negotiations, management pushes back
...Palomar Health says it has reached impasse with unions...
CVPH and New York State Nurses Association Still Negotiating A Contract
Howard University Hospital nurses strike following breakdown of labor union negotiations
LABOR DISPUTES
Seattle jobs dispute sets uneasy tone ahead of ILWU-employer talks
On strike for a year, Alabama coal miners say: ‘We won’t back down!’
LEGAL NEWS
NLRB NEWS
2 Starbucks In Santa Cruz Accuse Corporate Of Unfair Practices
Biden official would reinterpret labor law to deprive companies of established free speech rights
ORGANIZING NEWS
Bloomberg: Revisit Card Check to Ease Union Organizing: NLRB Top Lawyer
Sonoma Valley Museum of Art Responds to Unionization Request
Actors’ Equity Files for National Labor Relations Board Election on Behalf of WAITRESS Tour
Why did Amazon workers win the fight to form a union in Staten Island but not in Alberta?
POLITICAL NEWS
Vice President Kamala Harris offers union support in Philadelphia visit
Changes to Federal Union Rules Would Hurt Struggling Minority-Owned Businesses
TEACHERS UNION NEWS
‘Utterly unsustainable:’ Denver mulling fix for special education workloads
Palmetto State TA Urges Lawmakers to Address Issue of Educator Shortage