LaborUnionNews.com's Morning News Digest for Friday, April 8, 2022
Top 4 Stories: NLRB GC Wants To Ban Captive Audience Meetings; Backlash After Psaki Walks Back Biden's Amazon Remarks; Mr. Smalls Goes To Washington & Labor Relations Radio
1. NLRB General Counsel Moves To Ban ‘Captive Audience Meetings’
...Bloomberg: NLRB Top Attorney Takes Aim at Company Anti-Union Meetings...
...Littler: NLRB GC “may be overstepping her authority”...
…Proskauer: “General Counsel will be looking to bring a ‘test’ case”…
2. Pushback After Psaki Walks Back Biden Amazon Union Remarks
3. Mr. Smalls Goes To Washington: ALU President Meets With Pols and Presidents of the Flight Attendants and Teamsters
4. Labor Relations Radio, Ep. 15—Guest Kim Kavin Gives An Update On The Fight For Freelancers
The so-called “gig economy” encompasses hundreds (perhaps thousands) of professions and 59 million Americans and is growing.
However, because independent contractors (aka “freelancers” or “gig workers”) are not “employees” under National Labor Relations Act and cannot be unionized, unions and their political allies are trying to kill the gig economy at the state-by-state level, as well as at the federal level through the “PRO Act” by enacting a draconian measure called the ‘ABC Test.’ Listen here.
NLRB Petitions & Charges: April 6, 2022 (for paid subscribers)
68 Total Entries
Petitions: 19
Charges: 49
MORE NEWS:
BARGAINING NEWS
Parcast Union Reaches Tentative Deal on First Contract With Spotify Management
Albertsons And Kroger Avert Strikes, Reach Agreement With Worker Union
AFSCME Demonstrates Against Unfair Working Conditions, Outsourcing
ECONOMIC NEWS
Economy seeing record-low unemployment paired with 10+ million openings
Walmart is offering truckers a starting salary between $95,000 to $110,000
GENERAL UNION NEWS
United Soccer League Players Association Affiliates With CWA
AFL-CIO: NABTU Legislative Conference Celebrates Wins, Sets Upcoming Agenda
AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler on the future of America’s labor movement
GOVERNMENT UNION NEWS
Biden signs USPS reform legislation into law, as agency seeks higher mail prices
Chicago Transit Workers Demand Bathroom Facilities Fit for Humans
SSA to open offices to the public as agency staffing issues continue
HEALTH CARE UNION NEWS
Number of Nurse Practitioners Licensed in US Hits New Record
California Nurses Battered by Covid Seek Workers’ Comp Equity
Nurse Practitioners Want to Change State Law to Give them Freedom to Treat Patients
LABOR DISPUTES
Concrete strike continues but deliveries restart for West Seattle bridge repairs
Local Workers on Strike as Inflation Surges and Wages Stagnate
AFL-CIO Stands in solidarity with UAW workers on strike at Vollrath manufacturing
LEGAL NEWS
Aspiring NBA Agent Asks to Revive Suit Against Players’ Union
Proskauer: Third Circuit Takes Supreme Court Cue and Rejects “Implied” Union Contracts
Littler: High Court Expands Employer Liability for Late Payment of Wages
NLRB NEWS
Law360: Macy’s Lockout Of Engineers Was Unlawful, NLRB Judge Says
After NY Amazon Unionized More U.S. workers are citing ULPs and want a Similar Vote
ORGANIZING NEWS
Unionizing QA workers won’t get raises from Activision Blizzard...Amid Union Effort, Activision Blizzard Converts QA Workers to Full-Time Staff...
Amazon is objecting to union’s victory in New York, alleging interference
Employers Should Take Note of Recent Union Organizing Activities
NYT: Amazon Workers Who Won a Union Open Labor Leaders’ Eyes
POLITICAL NEWS
Republican Accuses Dems of Flipflopping on Staff Unionization
President Biden appears to back broadening union push at Amazon
Senators strike deal to keep Capitol cafeteria workers from layoffs
TEACHERS UNION NEWS
Economic Adviser Condemns Biden’s ‘Very Hard To Understand’ Student Debt Repayment
Unions Are Somehow Both For and Against Teacher Candidate Assessment
The D.C. Public Charter Schools Where Masks Are Still Mandatory