LaborUnionNews.com's Morning News Digest for Tuesday, May 3, 2022
Top Three Stories: Amazon Labor Union Loses, Lawyer 'Most Certainly' Will Object; Psaki Sidesteps ALU Starbucks Union's White House Visit; & Restaurants Scramble Amid Food Deliver Strike
TOP STORIES:
1. Amazon Labor Union Rejected 618-380 at Second Staten Island Facility
…Union Attorney Seth Goldstein: ALU will ‘most certainly contest the results’…
RELATED—NLRB Regional Director: First Amazon union vote in NYC could be overturned
2. Psaki sidesteps questions about White House meeting with Amazon, Starbucks union leaders
3. Restaurants scramble as Sysco strike enters fifth day
…Company: “…our business continuity plans are running smoothly and we are currently serving our customers at 100% capacity…”
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Petitions: 9
Charges: 40
MORE NEWS:
BARGAINING NEWS
Union Negotiator on ‘Frenzied’ Granite Negotiations: ‘I’m glad it’s over.’
United Steelworkers, Arconic continue negotiations in Pittsburgh
Negotiations Between OPEIU and CUNA Mutual Have Been Going For Over Two Months
GENERAL UNION NEWS
GOVERNMENT UNION NEWS
St. Louis County Voters May End Up Deciding Fate of ‘Whistleblower Protection’ measure
Bergen County Board Of Social Services Workers Call For Fair Contract
County to add paid parental leave for employees, but will it be enough?
One out of six CT government jobs is vacant as workers keep leaving
Resistance begins against the sale of the Bucks County Sewer and Water Authority
HEALTH CARE UNION NEWS
Stanford Nurses Overwhelmingly Ratify New Contract, Ending Week-Long Strike
Fed-up nurses turn to lucrative travel work. But how long can it last?
HR NEWS
LABOR DISPUTES
Cannabis Workers Strike, Seeking Union Recognition and Contract Bargaining
Chevron Calls to Police During Strike Prompt Pushback, Strain on Resources
King’s Material employees go on strike after failed wage negotiations
Over 1,000 Union Members at CNH Industrial Start Strike Monday
...CNH Industrial employees in Racine and Mount Pleasant are on strike...
LEGAL NEWS
Washington Becomes Third Jurisdiction to Require Wage Disclosures in Job Postings
Ohio Adopts Provisions of the FLSA to Eliminate Hybrid Actions and to Clarify Compensable Time
Changes to Come to the Tennessee Human Rights Commission After State Investigation
NLRB NEWS
NLRB General Counsel Issues Memo on Ensuring Access for Immigrant Workers to NLRB Processes
Amazon to get hearing that could overturn New York union vote, labor board official says
‘Whore Board’ Graffiti Case Tests Line Between Labor, Bias Laws
Activision Blizzard Receives New Accusations of Threatening its Workers
ORGANIZING NEWS
CWA President: Hundreds of techs told ‘squeezed’ workers could benefit from Tower Climbers Union
The Election For Union Representation Begins At Raven Software
Labor Leaders Vow United Front Against Amazon Amid Warehouse Election
Jacobin: Socialists Are Trying to Revive the American Labor Movement
STARBUCKS UNION NEWS
Starbucks union claims CEO Schultz violated labor law by ‘threatening to withhold’ benefits
Starbucks is Laying Off Employees Who Want to Organize Themselves
NPR: Starbucks workers drive nationwide surge in union organizing