LaborUnionNews.com's Morning News Digest for Monday, April 18, 2022
Top 5 Stories: Et tu, Apple? Striking Strippers, Tucker Carlson "roots" for Amazon Labor Union, Big Brother is watching your online sales & more Starbucks news
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Top 5 Stories:
1. Apple store workers at Grand Central Terminal start collecting signatures to form a union
...same union (SEIU d/b/a Workers United) organizing Starbucks' workers...
2. Strippers in North Hollywood Are Twerking for Their Rights
"...unfair labor practice charges have been filed...."
3. Tucker Carlson praises Amazon union leader: ‘I’m rooting for you’ [WATCH]
4. You Made $700 From an Online Side Hustle. Now the IRS Will Know.
Starbucks News.
According to unionelections.org, there are currently 208 open petitions for unions at Starbucks stores covering 5,535 total workers.
Did you know, all the stories we’ve posted about Starbucks’ union organizing can be found here?
NLRB Petitions & Charges: April 14, 2022 (for paid subscribers)
46 Total Entries
Petitions: 16
Charges: 30
MORE NEWS:
BARGAINING NEWS
Teamsters at Kemps Ice Cream plant in Rochester threatening strike
For The Starbucks Union Campaign, A Bruising Contract Fight Is Just Beginning
ISU Employees’ Union Reaches Tentative Agreement, Averting Strike
ECONOMIC NEWS
GOVERNMENT UNION NEWS
Norfolk Considers Raising Minimum Wage to $18 for City Workers
Wisconsin Postal Workers Hope New Federal Law Will Prevent Further Cuts To Service
HEALTH CARE UNION NEWS
Thousands of nurses plan to strike at dozens of Sutter Health facilities on Monday
...5,000 nurses and families could lose health insurance if they go on strike....
National Nurses United calls on Congress to pass Federal Safe Staffing Legislation
‘We are deeply concerned,’ says WA nursing union of felony charges against RN for medication error
HR NEWS
Philadelphia Reinstates Mask Requirement, Effective April 18
Howard University Professor Says Americans Are Quitting ‘Bad Jobs’
Amazon CEO says company is addressing ‘top 100 employee experience pain points’
This Millennial Boss Shared About Having Only Gen Z Employees, Said It Was a Joke
LABOR DISPUTES
Spirit Flight Attendants Continue To Picket After Mass Cancellations
San Antonio Symphony’s season may end before 6-month-old strike is resolved
LEGAL NEWS
NRTW: NYC Car Wash Workers Kick Out Unwanted RWDSU Officials
Supreme Court Clarifies Federal Jurisdiction in Employment Arbitration Case
Phelps: What Employers Need to Know About Workplace Recordings
Ignoring Weingarten Right and Discriminating Against Union Employees Violates NLRA
NLRB NEWS
NLRB’s General Counsel Abruzzo Seeks to Eliminate Secret Ballot Elections
Bloomberg: How the NLRB Could
EaseErase Union Elections: Joy Silk, ExplainedRed Rock Resort must bargain with culinary union, labor judge rules
ORGANIZING NEWS
Resident Physicians at the UVM Medical Center Vote to Form Union
Four New Starbucks Stores File for Union Elections in New York
POLITICAL NEWS
Congressional Workers Urge House Leaders to Schedule Vote on Their Union...Congressional Staffers Union letter...
Jacobin: Amazon’s Union-Buster Consultants Are Also Consultants for Major Labor Unions
Construction firms hit Biden labor agreement plan that unions praise
TEACHERS UNION NEWS
GOP Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Strip Teachers Union of Congressional Charter
California Public School Enrollment Drops By Another 110,000 Students – Fifth Decline In A Row
TEA Creates Model Local Policy for Preventing and Removing ‘Obscene’ Library Content
St. Louis Archdiocese, school teachers union agree to labor contract
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