LaborUnionNews.com's Morning News Digest for Thursday, April 14, 2022
Top Story: More On The NLRB's De-Facto Card Check
NLRB’s Abruzzo Elaborates On Her Rationale For Imposing De-Facto Card Check
Labor Relations Radio, Ep. 17—Three takeaways from the NLRB GC's 93-page brief make it easier to unionize workers
NLRB General Counsel Seeks to Bar Employer-Mandated Meetings to Discuss Union Organizing
NLRB Petitions & Charges: April 12, 2022 (for paid subscribers)
58 Total Entries
Petitions: 16
Charges: 42
BARGAINING NEWS
WSWS: Dana workers furious over high prices, poor conditions under sellout contract
Preble Street Workers Will Get 19% Increase Under Tentative Union Contract
ECONOMIC NEWS
Why Inflation Could Get Much Worse...PPI for March was published at 11.2% year over year...
Q2 2021: Top 100 largest PPP loans provided to small businesses in ZIP 60126
GENERAL UNION NEWS
Report Shows Injury Rate at Amazon Warehouses is Up From 2020
Brick an Mortar Businesses Are Fading: Community Reacts to Dillard’s Closure Announcement
The Number of Workers Attacked on the Job Has Been Growing in Recent Years
GOVERNMENT UNION NEWS
Champaign rolling out $2.1 million in bonuses for police officers
700 Chicago officers are refusing the city’s vaccine mandate without consequence
Democrats Are Stacking the Deck Against Vets...Veterans rally, petition to save VA from recommended closure...
17 Port Authority Workers Fired Over COVID-19 Vaccine, 127 Remain Suspended
Infrastructure Law Will Provide Ohio Communities Resources to Improve Water and Sewer Systems
HEALTH CARE UNION NEWS
‘Burnt out and tired’: nurses at leading California hospitals prepare to strike
Austin Robotics Firm Set to Ramp Up Production On Nurse Helpers
HR NEWS
Pandemic Is Likely to Undo Progress on Gender Wage Gap, New Research Shows
Union Victory At Amazon Pushes Corporate America To Be Nicer To Employees
New Bersin Research Finds That 75% of Companies Struggle to Recruit Effectively
LABOR DISPUTES
Concrete flows again in Seattle area but tensions still high as labor deal remains elusive
Warrior Met Coal Strikers: One Day Longer. One Day Stronger. One Year Later.
Marysville Starbucks Workers Shut Down Store in Successful 3-Day Strike
Outsourcing Schools’ Bus Driving Doesn’t Sit Well With Current Protesting Drivers
Some Kansas City-Area Construction Workers Hit the Picket Line
A University Asked Professors to Help Quash a Grad-Student Strike
LEGAL NEWS
Greenfield: Wave of union victories suggests union-busting consultants may have lost their sway
California Court Calls for Further Proceedings in Whistleblower Retaliation Suit
NLRB NEWS
Summary of NLRB Decisions for Week of March 28 - April 1, 2022
NLRB General Counsel Seeks to Scrap 50 Years of Precedent and Require Card Check Recognition
Labor Relations Radio, Ep. 16—Five BIG stories, PLUS, the NLRB Wants To Ban Employer Speech
ORGANIZING NEWS
Vice.com: Amazon Cracks Down on Organizing After Historic Union Win
Flight Attendants Secure AFA-CWA Union Representation at Avelo Airlines
WSJ: Starbucks Prepares to Expand Worker Benefits That Might Exclude Unionized Staff
NLRB GC Seeks to Bar Employer-Mandated Meetings to Discuss Union Organizing
POLITICAL NEWS
TEACHERS UNION NEWS
Catholic high school teachers, Archdiocese of St. Louis agree to contract, avoid strike
Teachers group calls on lawmakers to address teacher vacancies in South Carolina