LaborUnionNews.com's Morning News Digest for Tuesday, February 15, 2022
Featured Stories: Union Rates Tip Up Among Young Workers & Gen U Is Fueling Starbucks Revolution
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FEATURED NEWS
FEATURED STORIES
Union rates tick up among young workers
LaborPress: ‘Generation Union’ is Powering the Starbucks Worker Revolution
NLRB Petitions & Charges: Feb. 11, 2022 (for paid subscribers)
70 Total Entries
BARGAINING NEWS
UCLA skilled trades workers make progress in contract negotiations
A First: Union representing ULA workers gets historic 100% strike sanction vote
ECONOMIC NEWS
Setbacks Unlikely to Stop DFW’s Commercial Construction Boom
Rising wages could not keep pace with rising prices in Arizona in 2021
...Metro Phoenix saw a 9.7% rise in the cost of goods and services...
GENERAL UNION NEWS
Seattle’s Transit System Deemed Unusable, Due to Toxic Fentanyl & Meth Smoke
Teamsters Celebrate Black History Month With Voting Rights Push
GOVERNMENT UNION NEWS
Mask Requirement In MD State Buildings End Next Week, AFSCME Says Decision ‘Makes No Sense’
Pennsylvania reforms would reduce corruption and restore workers’ rights
The Outcome if Government Unions Get Control of an Entire State
HEALTH CARE UNION NEWS
California Single-Payer Has Gone Up In Flames—For Now...California launches CalAIM, an effort to transform Medi-Cal...
HR NEWS
LABOR DISPUTES
Lockout Update: MLB Asks to Eliminate ‘Hundreds’ of Minor League Player Jobs In Latest Proposal
Orange County bus drivers set to go on strike Tuesday if no new contract agreed to
...Bus drivers, supporters rally ahead of possible strike...
After 10 Months, Teamsters Still on Strike at Brooklyn Oil Terminal
‘30 truckloads from the finish line’: West Seattle Bridge reopening jeopardized by concrete strike...Congressman: Concrete employers must return to bargaining table...
LEGAL NEWS
LIUNA: Suit Alleges Roadworks Failed to Make Employee Benefits Contributions
NYC law regulating firing process for restaurant workers upheld in blow to fast food industry
Judge: Iowa must pay union $2 million in dues deduction case
Broad effort to pass bill supporting pregnant workers focuses on Senate
POLITICAL NEWS
Sanders endorses Jessica Cisneros over sitting Democratic lawmaker
Biden pro-union panel’s recommendations: Boost organizing, hit union-busters
President Biden renews pledge to fight high drug prices as inflation continues to spike
TEACHERS UNION NEWS
California teachers union leader under fire for maskless picture at Rams game
Strike authorization vote begins Monday for Minneapolis and St. Paul teachers
Bay Area Teachers Union Demands 12.5% Raise, Threatens Strike