LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Friday, August 9, 2024
LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Friday, August 9, 2024
Top Stories: More Texans join unions; Boston hotel union threatens citywide strike; ACLU violated the law, NLRB rules; BMW robot may doom UAW efforts & 64 more articles below the fold...
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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 68 total articles in today’s News Digest and 40,188 items posted since LaborUnionNews.com was launched in 2022.]
More Texans join unions, although national membership is down
…They were among 68,000 Texans who joined a union in 2023, an increase from 2022. This uptick was fueled by workers in the technology and nonprofit sectors — as well as coffee shops.
Boston hotel workers vote to authorize citywide strike
A.C.L.U. Must Reinstate Employee Falsely Accused of Racist Language, Court Rules
The American Civil Liberties Union lost a case about offensive speech and workers’ rights — over its own workplace.
BMW's newest innovation may sound the alarm for the UAW
As labor costs eek into automakers' bottom lines and organizing efforts by the UAW ramp up, lifelike humanoid robots are becoming a new reality on production lines.
64 MORE ITEMS BELOW THE FOLD…
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