LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Wed., Oct. 9, 2024
Today's Top Stories: Abbruzzo's captive audience memo survives judges; Boeing talks break down; Worlds of fun workers may strike; SEIU pours $200 million into GOTV & more....
Do you have a news tip? E-mail us at LaborUnionNews@protonmail.com.
More LaborUnionNews.com content:
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
Here are today’s Top Stories…
[There are 71 total articles in today’s News Digest and 44,443 items posted since LaborUnionNews.com was launched in 2022.]
US judges skeptical of challenge to NLRB memo on anti-union meetings
A U.S. appeals court panel on Tuesday seemed unlikely to revive claims that National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo violated employers' free-speech rights by threatening legal action against businesses that require workers to attend meetings discouraging unionizing.
Boeing withdraws contract offer after talks with striking workers break down
Boeing announced Tuesday evening that they've withdrawn their latest offer to the union representing striking factory workers.
…strike nears the one-month mark…
Worlds of Fun union threatens to strike
Some Worlds of Fun union members are threatening to strike with two and a half weeks to go before the theme park closes for the season.
SEIU Works the South with $200M organizing campaign for the 2024 election
The union’s organizing summit in North Carolina was part of its $200 million investment to mobilize working people to vote ahead of the 2024 election.
73 MORE LABOR-RELATED ITEMS BELOW THE FOLD…
Includes news articles on AI, bargaining news, economic news, education union news, government union news, healthcare union news, labor disputes, NLRB news, organizing news, political news & more…
AI NEWS
GenAI as an ‘exoskeleton’: How it expands your workforce’s capabilities
80% of software engineering workforce will need upskilling because of AI
Efficiency, AI, and Employee Happiness in a Transforming Workforce
AI is a multi-billion dollar industry, underpinned by an exploited workforce
Longshoremen strike underscores AI challenges faced by workers
BARGAINING NEWS
Point Park’s full-time faculty union protest stalled contract negotiations
Frontline staff at Youth Pride, vote overwhelmingly to ratify their first contract with SEIU
Union representing Skowhegan’s Sappi Paper Mill workers has authorized strike
Unionized Komatsu workers participating in solidarity walks during negotiations