LaborUnionNews.com's Morning News Digest for Thursday, May 5, 2022

TOP STORIES:

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1. Union seeks renewed talks with Chevron in six-week California refinery strike

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2. How Border Deployment Led to Union Organizing in Texas

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3. Bloomberg: Amazon Votes Reveal Unions’ Secret Helper—Low Turnout

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NLRB Petitions & Charges: May 3, 2022 (for paid subscribers)

65 Total Entries

• Petitions: 14

• Charges: 51

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MORE NEWS:

BARGAINING NEWS

• Steelworkers say Arconic not providing information needed for negotiations

• Atlantic City casino workers union seeking ‘significant’ pay increases

• Shipyard workers approve contract by 70%

• UC-Wide Academic Worker Unions Rally for Improved Working Conditions

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ECONOMIC NEWS

• Labor Issues, Idle Trains Leave U.S. Grain and Food Stranded

• From coffee to ketchup, retailers seek price 'shields' as inflation runs riot

• Fed raises rates by half a percentage point — the biggest hike in two decades — to fight inflation

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GENERAL UNION NEWS

• If it feels like labor unions are having their moment, it’s because they absolutely are

• Google’s ‘raters’ are pushing for $15 an hour

• CPP: ARE PRIVATE SECTOR UNIONS PASSÉ?

• 14,000 American Airlines Pilots Take Out Full-Page Newspaper Ad Calling Out Company

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GOVERNMENT UNION NEWS

• Bipartisan Coalition of Lawmakers Renew 5.1% Raise Campaign for Federal Employees

• How Border Deployment Led to Union Organizing in Texas

• SSA acting commissioner ‘concerned’ about employee exhaustion, lack of engagement

• OHSU-AFSCME Collective Bargaining Enters Week Eight

• FEMA Employees Win $16.5M Settlement for Unpaid Overtime

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HEALTH CARE UNION NEWS

• MVHS and Nurses Union Reach Contract Agreement

• California Workers Fight to Reform Nursing Homes

• New Jersey’s Lone Public Hospital Seeks $1.2B for Replacement Facility

• Stretched thin, nurses want a say when it comes to staffing

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LABOR DISPUTES

• Cannabis Nation Growers Strike for Recognition, Call for Boycott

• Union seeks renewed talks with Chevron in California refinery strike

• D.C. Circulator Drivers On Strike After Union Contract Negotiations Stalled

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LEGAL NEWS

• SCOTUS Rejects Cadillac Dealership’s Challenge to Ruling That it Threatened IAM Local 701 Mechanic Going on Strike

• South Jersey Bus Drivers Hit IFPTE Union with Federal Lawsuit Challenging Unconstitutional Dues Seizures

• I’m Begging You, STOP Firing Union Organizers

• WaPo: Amazon could stymie unions for years by going to the courts

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NLRB NEWS

• NLRB’s ‘Whore Board’ Decision Faces D.C. Cir. Judge’s Skepticism

• NLRB: Unionizing petitions up 57% in last six months

• Labor Law Remedies: Back Pay, Front Pay, And … Training?

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ORGANIZING NEWS

• 360 USFL Players Unionize with United Steelworkers

• Amazon Endures the Union ‘Wave’

• Bloomberg: Amazon Votes Reveal Unions’ Secret Helper—Low Turnout

• Workers At Tiny House Villages Want a Union for Safety

• Union Kitchen Workers Face Uncertain Victory Amidst Firings And Delays

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POLITICAL NEWS

• Sanders hearing: Federal contractors are guilty until proven innocent, keep workers in the dark on rights

• Federal Contractors Are Guilty Until Proven Innocent, Bernie Wants to Keep Workers in the Dark On Rights

• Biden in Portland: ‘Union Workers Are The Best’

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STARBUCKS UNION NEWS

• Employees at 2nd Utah Starbucks Announce Plans to Unionize

• 4 more Starbucks in the Boston area vote to unionize

• Starbucks baristas in Boone unionize; Raleigh could be next

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TEACHERS UNION NEWS

• Los Angeles Teachers Union Wants Student Loans Forgiven For ‘Teacher Appreciation Week’

• Montgomery County Teachers Advocate for and Against Union

• Teachers Unions Conflate Ending Roe V. Wade With Racism, Voting Rights

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