LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Tuesday, August 15, 2023
Top Stories: WaPo staff gets advice from New York Times staff; States banning captive audience meetings; UAW to vote on Detroit Three strike authorization; UPS using AI & more...
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Axios: NY Times union staffers brief Washington Post union as it considers a walkout
Members of the New York Times' union on Monday evening briefed several dozen staffers from The Washington Post union about best practices they learned from The Times' union’s walkout last December, three sources familiar with the meeting told Axios. Read more…
New York, Minnesota, and Maine Ban “Captive Audience Meetings” – But the Fight is Just Beginning
Effective August 1, Minnesota now prohibits employers from “captive audience meetings” – that is, requiring, under threat of discharge, discipline, or some other penalty, employee attendance or participation in employer-sponsored meetings or otherwise requiring them to listen or receive communications regarding employer opinions on “religious” or “political” matters. Read more…
United Auto Workers to vote on strike authorization next week
About 146,000 members of the United Auto Workers union will vote next week on authorizing their leaders to call strikes against the Detroit automakers. Union President Shawn Fain said in a statement Tuesday that talks are moving slowly and have yet to get to wages and other economic issues. Read more…
UPS using AI to “do in an afternoon what used to take a team of engineers months to do”
Advances in technology are helping UPS and its massive package delivery network become more flexible in the face of unexpected changes, such as customers fleeing due to strike concerns. Read more…