LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Top Stories: Culinary gets first-ever CBA in Vegas; AFL-CIO: Unions to focus on GA, SC & TX; Success & the seeds of union failure; Jobs numbers revised downward & 67 more articles below the fold...
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If the workers surrender control over working relations to legislative and administrative agents, they put their industrial liberty at the disposal of state agents. — Samuel Gompers, 1915
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After two decades, Culinary Union has its first contract with Venetian, Palazzo on Strip
Representatives of Culinary Union Local 226 and Bartenders Union Local 165 agreed this morning to their first contract with Venetian and Palazzo on the Las Vegas Strip, union officials said in a social media post.
AFL-CIO president Shuler: focus is on Texas, Georgia, and South Carolina for organizing
The AFL-CIO is sending dozens of new organizers to live and work full-time in aiding workers in the Deep South states of Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina as part of its drive to add a million new members, net, within the next several years, federation President Liz Shuler says.
Bruenig: In a Union Triumph, the Seeds of Future Failure
Starting with one small shop in Buffalo, Starbucks workers have unionized 481 stores with more than 11,000 employees in less than three years. It’s a staggering demonstration of what can be accomplished when an aggressive union, an eager work force and a labor-friendly Democratic administration wind up in alignment.
JOBS REVISED 818,000 DOWNWARD
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