LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Top Stories: Big contracts up for renewal in 2025; NLRB orders Google to bargain with contractors employees; CHOP docs vote against unionization; U.S. Steel sues & dozens more articles...
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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
Here are today’s Top Stories…
[There are 58 total articles in today’s News Digest and 48,594 items posted since LaborUnionNews.com was launched in 2022.]
Expiring Contracts Carry Strike Threats to Test Trump Dealmaking
Nearly 200 large union contracts are set to expire in 2025, opening up possibilities for labor unrest in the early months of Donald Trump’s second presidency and testing the negotiation skills of his administration.
NLRB: Google should be forced to bargain with contractor’s union
Alphabet's Google is facing a second complaint from a U.S. labor board claiming that it is the employer of contract workers and must bargain with their union, the agency said on Monday.
CHOP resident physicians have voted against joining a union
Resident physicians and fellows at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia have voted against forming a union, a month after more than 3,000 medical residents from around the region announced plans to unionize.
U.S. Steel sues Biden and rival Cleveland-Cliffs over blocked merger
Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel this morning sued the Biden administration for blocking their proposed tie-up, as expected. They also filed a RICO complaint against rival Cleveland-Cliffs, the steelmaker's CEO, and the head of the United Steelworkers union. This was unexpected, and escalates the litigation from heated to nuclear.
