LaborUnionNews.com's Morning News Digest for Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Top Three Stories: Mr. Smalls Goes To DC (Again); Another Apple Store Unionizing; & Starbucks Invests $1 Billion In Employees

ALU President Chris Smalls in a Dali Mask via Twitter

1. Amazon Labor Union President To Visit White House, Testify Before Bernie Sanders' Senate Budget Committee Thursday

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Cryptic C62 | Wiki Commons

2. Apple Store workers in Maryland begin union drive with…the Machinists?

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3. Starbucks invests $1 billion in enhancing employee experience, training, and pay

…but not for union workers…

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NLRB Petitions & Charges: May 2, 2022 (for paid subscribers)

55 Total Entries

• Petitions: 9

• Charges: 46

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MORE STORIES:

BARGAINING NEWS

• Atlantic City casino workers seek ‘significant’ pay raise

• ULA, machinists union agree on new three-year contract for space workers

• Kahler Grand Hotel employees fighting for More Money

• Los Angeles Housekeepers Seek Wage Hikes, Enhanced Security Safeguards

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ECONOMIC NEWS

• Hawaii Legislature passes bill raising minimum wage to $18

• Labor Union IAM Calls for Complete Ban on All Russian Wood Imports

• AFL-CIO on Inflation: Good Jobs, Wages Are the Solution

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GENERAL UNION NEWS

• ‘We’re just robots’: US airline workers stranded amid staff shortages

• Pandemic Pay Included in Budget Deal Up for Vote in House

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HEALTH CARE UNION NEWS

• Stretched thin, nurses want a say when it comes to staffing

• Stanford Health Care Physicians Form Union

• Brockton Visiting Nurse Staff Petition to Remove Unwanted SEIU Officials from Workplace

• WSWS: Nurses Describe Intolerable Conditions in Hospitals in Response to Suicide of ER Nurse

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HR NEWS

• How To Use The STAR Interview Method To Ace Your Next Interview

• SHRM: Top 10 Reasons Why Employees Sue Their Employers

• SHRM: How to Help Employees Return from a Career Break

• Proposed Urine-Test Rule Change at DOT Fuels Privacy Concerns

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LABOR DISPUTES

• D.C. Circulator Drivers On Strike After Union Contract Negotiations Stalled

• Teamsters Strike King’s Ready Mix for Second Day

• Farmworkers March Past Strawberry Festival on International Workers’ Day

• Over 400 East Iowa Union Auto Workers On Strike

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LEGAL NEWS

• Supreme Court Will Hear Highly Paid Supervisor’s FLSA Case

• Supreme Court Takes Up Offshore Labor Dispute

• 7th Circuit upholds Wisconsin’s mandatory bar, says precedent applies until Supreme Court overrules it

• Washington Becomes Third Jurisdiction to Require Wage Disclosures in Job Postings

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ORGANIZING NEWS

• Bloom Medicinals cannabis workers file petition for union election

• First US Apple Store union election set for June 2nd in Atlanta

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POLITICAL NEWS

• VP Harris to Meet Thursday with Union Organizers

• Top Labor Leader Selected for New York Climate Council

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TEACHERS UNION NEWS

• Twitter users blast NPR, Randi Weingarten over poll suggesting parents ‘satisfied’ with child’s education

• Sacramento Teachers Return to Schools After Historic Strike

• Missouri Ranks No. 50 in U.S. in Starting Teacher Pay

• How the teacher shortage is affecting the National FFA Organization

• AOC Says Biden Shouldn’t Means-Test Student Debt Relief

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