LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Top Stories: Union targets Delta flight attendants; Boeing firefighters return to work; UAW can still unionize Mercedes workers through Cemex; Strike ends at US Foods; Legal workers strike ends & more
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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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Flight attendants union takes aim at Delta, a rich organizing target
Leaders of the Association of Flight Attendants are holding their national convention this week in Atlanta, the hometown of Delta Air Lines Inc. — the union’s white whale it has sought for decades to organize.
Boeing firefighters to depart picket lines to vote on a new contract
Boeing firefighters will step away from picket lines to vote on a new contract offer Wednesday, according to a statement from the company’s media relations department Tuesday.
UAW Has Path to Reverse Mercedes Loss Under New Labor Standard
The United Auto Workers can explore a potent new legal strategy to reverse its election defeat at a Mercedes-Benz AG plant and force the German automaker to recognize the union, according to some labor scholars.
More than 100 US Foods workers end strike in Vista
Over 100 workers at the Vista warehouse of national food distributor and supplier US Foods were on strike for nearly two weeks until Tuesday, when management and Teamsters Local 542, a union representing the workers, reached an agreement.
Contract Deal Poised to End Months-Long Legal Worker Strike
Over 100 attorneys, paralegals and support staff with the nonprofit legal services provider Mobilization for Justice (MFJ) are expected to return to work as soon as Wednesday, ending a 13-week strike that secured wins including a $60,000 salary floor for non-lawyers.
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