LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Monday, January 6, 2025
Top Stories: An Interview with Jennifer Abruzzo; ILA negotiations to resume on Tues; A Petsmart store unionized; UFCW extends negotiations & 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…
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How labor law changed under Biden—and what comes next (an interview with Jennifer Abruzzo)
Core to the Biden administration’s economic policy was an attempt to rebalance the power between workers and employers through labor and employment regulations, from the Federal Trade Commission’s ban on non-compete clauses to the Department of Labor’s expanded overtime protections. At the center of this effort was the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the federal agency charged with protecting workers’ rights to organize and combating unfair labor practices.
Negotiations to resume ahead of possible US port strike
FreightWaves has reported that negotiations between the International Longshoremen’s Association and port employers represented by the United States Maritime Alliance on a new longshore union contract covering East and Gulf Coast ports will resume on January 7, just days before the contract extension expires.
West Texas PetSmart becomes second unionized store in national chain
A PetSmart store in Midland, Texas, made history Friday by becoming the second store in the national chain to unionize.
Colorado grocery chains and union workers temporarily extend contract negotiations through mid-January
Contracts for union employees at King Soopers and City Market have been extended almost two weeks in a stopgap measure while negotiations continue.
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