LaborUnionNews.com's Morning News Digest for Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Top Five Stories: AFL-CIO Influencers; The NLRB Spreads Its Wings; Unions Are Unionizing Philly's Eateries; ALU Organizer Discouraging Card Signing & CNHI to Cut Off UAW Strikers' Health Insurance

TOP STORIES:

Image Credit: AFL-CIO

1. AFL-CIO: Labor Leaders Among ‘500 Most Influential People’ in Washington, D.C

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Image Credit: Kirsten Pauli | Creative Commons

2. NLRB stretches its wings under Biden’s appointees

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Image Credit: Jason Murphy | Creative Commons

3. The push to unionize Philly’s food scene

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4. Amazon Labor Union Organizer Tells Other Amazon Facilities To 'Hold Off On Getting New Authorization Cards Signed'

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5. CNH to cancel striking workers’ health insurance; UAW says it is covering for its members

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NLRB Petitions & Charges: May 6, 2022 (for paid subscribers)

46 Total Entries

• Petitions: 5

• Charges: 41

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BARGAINING NEWS

• Contract talks near for thousands of West Coast dockworkers

• Alaska Airlines pilots to conduct strike-authorization vote starting Monday

• Teamsters: Waste Workers in Indiana Secure New Three-Year Agreement

• National Fuel Workers Threaten to Strike

• Time Magazine Staffers Prepare to Strike

• Steelworkers will meet Thursday to authorize possible strike against Arconic

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ECONOMIC NEWS

• Hospitals Look to Raise Treatment Costs as Nurses’ Salaries Increase

• State’s Manufacturing Unions Urge BPA Power Deal for Intalco

• Anti-worker or pro-worker? Why labor unions are fighting over a housing bill

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GOVERNMENT UNION NEWS

• Federal Workers Seek Approval for $63 Million Data Breach Deal

• House of Representatives set to raise minimum salary for staffers

• Firing Of 3 Town Employees For ‘Triple-Dipping’ During Pandemic Upheld

• Federal stakeholders continue to voice concerns over VA medical center cutbacks

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HEALTH CARE UNION NEWS

• Workers at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles begin 5-day strike

• Stanford Health Care’s Residents Vote to Join Union

• Alarm Bell From the Head of the Nurses’ Union

• Nurse Staffing Think Tank Develops Toolkit to Address Staffing Shortages

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LABOR DISPUTES

• Operating Engineers on strike at GFL Everglades Holdings, LLC

• No meetings last week between Chevron, union negotiators in refinery strike

• SMART Local 565 workers on Strike at Trachte Building Systems in Sun Prairie

• Workers at New Albany’s FireKing International go on strike

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LABOR DISPUTES

• Operating Engineers on strike at GFL Everglades Holdings, LLC

• No meetings last week between Chevron, union negotiators in refinery strike

• SMART Local 565 workers on Strike at Trachte Building Systems in Sun Prairie

• Workers at New Albany’s FireKing International go on strike

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NLRB NEWS

• Summary of NLRB Decisions for Week of April 25 - 29, 2022

• Shorthanded: Labor Board Faces Challenges In Handling Influx of Cases

• Tudor’s Biscuit World faces labor complaint from NLRB

• NRTW: Red Rock Casino Slot Technicians Blast Regional NLRB Ruling Trapping Them In Union

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ORGANIZING NEWS

• SAM Security Workers Begin Union Vote, Allege Retaliation from Employer

• NLRB impounds ballots in union vote at The Meadows Psychiatric Center

• The push to unionize Philly’s food scene

• People’s World: Small business owners, unite! An appeal for owner-operators to unionize

• Amazon Just Fired 2 Organizers Who Helped Win It’s First Union

• The New Labor Movement Is Young, Worker-Led and Winning

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STARBUCKS UNION NEWS

• Unionizing Starbucks workers call denied raises intimidation tactics

• Federal complaint spotlights Starbucks’ Buffalo activities in union battle

• Starbucks accused of more than 200 labor violations by the NLRB

  ...NLRB sues Starbucks over employee handbook policies...

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