LaborUnionNews.com's Morning News Digest for Monday, February 21, 2022
Featured Stories: Atlanta Opera Could Set Independent Contractor Precedent & How to Crush 59 Million Americans' incomes with three simple letters: ABC
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Atlanta Opera union fight could set independent contractor precedent
...’could have ramifications...all across our gig work economy’...
Related: Labor Relations Radio Ep. 3: How to Crush 59 Million Americans' incomes with three simple letters: ABC
NLRB Petitions & Charges: Feb. 17, 2022 (for paid subscribers)
67 Total Entries
BARGAINING NEWS
After Two Years Without a Contract, College of Arts Staff ‘Pretty Close’ to Striking
UFCW reaches tentative agreement with Albertsons/Safeway grocery stores
ECONOMIC NEWS
Shock gas, grocery price hikes spur states to pursue tax relief
Inflation Nation: ‘Even Wealthier Families Become More Price-Sensitive’
The Great Resignation is also the Great Retirement of the baby boomers. That’s a problem.
GENERAL UNION NEWS
TEEN VOGUE: Union Busting: What Are Some of the Most Common Tactics Employers Use?
A Hollywood union tried to promote diversity. Then things got complicated.
A noose was hung in an Ohio plant at the start of Black History Month, union and FBI notified
Why it’s crucial for lawmakers to protect and empower unions as union popularity rises
Google lowered its salaries in North Carolina. Now workers are protesting.
Flight Attendants Union President Demands ‘No Fly List’ Of Unruly Passengers
GOVERNMENT UNION NEWS
AFGE Calls Anti-Union RETURN Act Outrageous Assault on Collective Bargaining
School Food Service workers could join Metro Minneapolis strike trend (SEIU)
City of East Orange Contends With Four-Year Contract Dispute With CWA
Fight Over Funding for Fire and Police Pensions Brewing at the Illinois Statehouse
HEALTH CARE UNION NEWS
New York scraps health care workers booster mandate to avoid ‘staffing issues’
Nurses Who Want To Unionize Plan To Picket Outside UW Health Board Meeting
Travel nurses have rescued N.J. hospitals. But have they come at too high a price?
NY Nurses Made $1.5 Million Off Fake COVID Vaccination Cards
UFCW: St. Michaels Medical Center management “has failed to seriously address any of our concerns…”
HR NEWS
LABOR DISPUTES
Machinists In 3 States Striking Against Cummins For New Contract
UMWA: How Private Equity Firms Caused The Miners’ Strike In Alabama
Striking begins for Davenport Machinists union members...400 employees out...
MLB cancels first week of spring training games; daily negotiations to begin Monday
Judge Limits Some Activities As Concrete Companies Claim Violence In Teamsters Strike
LEGAL NEWS
Fifth Circuit Reverses Denial of Preliminary Injunction in Vaccine Mandate Case
Google Reaches Undisclosed Settlement in Discrimination Suit
Freightwaves: Biden’s NLRB, DOL seek to upend Trump-era labor laws
NLRB NEWS
Former NLRB Chair On Why Unions Are Getting So Much Attention
NLRB General Counsel: ‘Racial Justice Advocacy’ Is Protected Activity
ORGANIZING NEWS
NLRB Order Single-Site Election For Seattle Starbucks, Ballots Go Out Feb. 25th
3 California Starbucks Locations Seek Union Amid Nationwide Push
Starbucks employees and teamsters rally in support of fired Memphis workers
Two Apple Stores’ Close To Filing For Union Elections…at least six more possible soon…
…To Plan Union Campaign, Apple Workers Are Using…Android Smartphones?!?
Raven Software Brings In ‘Anti-Union Lawyers,’ NLRB Hearing Begins
How Gen Z Baristas Are Spreading the Starbucks Unionization Effort
POLITICAL NEWS
Newark City Counsel Passes Building Service Worker Retention Law
CEI: The One Area Where Voting Rights Isn’t Sacred: Union Elections.