LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Monday, June 10, 2024
Top Stories: Another Hollywood strike? UFCW to conduct strike vote; Striking Teamsters get a new offer; Virginia teachers unionize; Teamsters' Obrien wants to speak at DNC & GOP conventions & 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
Today’s Top Labor Union News Stories
“We’re Looking to Be More Aggressive”: Hollywood Teamsters Leader Lindsay Dougherty Reveals Her Approach to 2024’s Negotiations
As targeted contract talks for the Hollywood Basic Crafts begin, the union coalition's leader opens up about top priorities and why she won't be calling a strike authorization vote.
6,000 Food4Less workers to vote on strike following contract expiration
Members of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local Union, which represents around 6,000 Food4less workers, is set to hold a strike authorization vote this week after their previous contract expired without a new agreement in place.
United Auto Workers reaches tentative agreement with Ultium Cells
The United Auto Workers (UAW) has reached a tentative agreement with Ultium Cells. According to the UAW, the tentative agreement includes 30 percent wage increases over three years for production, quality, SRP and material handling workers.
Tops & union reach second tentative contract after first was rejected
There's word of another tentative agreement between Tops Markets and Teamsters Local #264.
Previously: Tops distribution center employees reject contract, Teamsters strike continues
Receivership muzzled this Mass. city's teachers' union. It aims to be heard
For eight years, Holyoke schools — and teachers — have operated under state oversight. During that time, the Holyoke teachers union was forced to keep a low profile.
Teamsters President Asks for Speaking Slot at Both Parties’ Conventions
Having Sean O’Brien at the Republican National Convention would be politically useful to former President Donald J. Trump, even absent an endorsement. The union has yet to back a candidate.
Trump at Vegas rally vows tax-free tips for service workers
Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump told a rally Sunday in Las Vegas that he would work to make tips tax-free, an apparent appeal to workers in the city's huge service industry.
Vegas’ Culinary Union Responds: ‘…wild campaign promises from a convicted felon.’
3,000+ nurses at 6 Providence facilities to strike
Members of the Oregon Nurses Association are set to begin a three-day strike June 18 at six Providence facilities, in what the union deems the largest nurses' strike in the state's history.
PayDay Report: 27,000 Virginia Teachers Win Historic Union Election with Presidential Election Implications
This morning, it was announced that Virginia Education Unions, a joint coalition of Virginia-based AFT and NEA locals, had won a historic union election to represent over 27,000 teachers and school staff in Fairfax County, Virginia.
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Construction Workers in New Jersey Public Schools Need Background Checks, Lawmakers Say
New legislation introduced in New Jersey aims to fortify the safety protocols surrounding construction and public works activities in school environments.
