LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Monday, Oct. 28, 2024
Top Stories: IBEW gets a CBA with BNSF; TWU may strike SEPTA; ILA, to return to port talks; NLRB nixes Trader Joe's employees' decert & more...
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Here are today’s Top Stories…
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BNSF, electrical workers announce tentative contract agreement
BNSF Railway and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers have reached a tentative agreement on a five-year contract, while the National Conference of Firemen and Oilers has ratified its agreement with the railroad.
SEPTA workers strike possible as contract deadline looms
Workers with a local transit union have voted unanimously to authorize a strike amid contract negotiations with SEPTA.
Port operators, dockworkers union will return to bargaining table
“The respective negotiating committees will meet in New Jersey, where they will look to agree on terms for a new Master Contract Proposal that can be presented to the full ILA Wage Scale Committee for approval, and later, to ILA Longshore workers for ratification,” a press release from the two sides stated.
Boeing Strike Is a Hot Mess. The Union Has Risk, Too.
Sometimes it’s best to move on. Boeing workers have a lot to be frustrated about, including inexplicable past comments from management about making workers “cower” and threats to move business out of the Pacific Northwest unless labor capitulated to freezing defined benefit pensions.
Help! We’re Trapped in a Trader Joe’s Union
Apparently it’s OK to unionize but not to get rid of our labor union. We learned this lesson on Oct. 8, when the National Labor Relations Board dismissed our petition to hold a decertification election at the store where we work.
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