LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Top Stories: Case New Holland's latest offer rejected; WSJ union authorizes a strike; Amazon may have a 3rd election in Alabama; Conde Nast union may strike ahead of Met Gala & 64 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
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Union Rejects Latest Contract Offer From Case-New Holland in Fargo
The union representing workers at Case-New Holland manufacturing plant in Fargo has overwhelmingly rejected the company’s latest contract offer.
WSJ union authorizes strike vote
Independent Association of Publishers’ Employees board authorized a strike vote to be conducted by its members working at Dow Jones & Co. The member referendum will be the first such vote in the union’s 87-year history.
Amazon Employees in Alabama Could Get a Third Unionization Vote
A hearing that began Monday will determine whether Amazon workers in Bessemer will potentially vote for a third time on unionization.
Condé Nast Union Threatens Strike Ahead of Met Gala
After months of negotiations over its first contract and proposed layoffs, the Condé Nast Union announced a majority of members — representing titles including Vanity Fair, GQ, Glamour and Bon Appétit — have pledged “to walk off the job” if progress is not made on contract negotiations, which have “moved at a glacial pace” according to a statement from the NewsGuild of New York, the union’s organising body.
Dissent: Lessons from Starbucks Workers United and the Fight for $15
On February 27, after over two years of gutsy and strategic organizing, Starbucks Workers United forced Starbucks to surrender to its workers’ wishes and recognize their legal right to a union under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). The baristas’ union and the company have agreed to a national framework for contract bargaining and for recognizing the wishes of workers at non-union stores to join the union. Earlier that month, after twelve years of similarly courageous fighting, workers in another union campaign against chain restaurants, Fight for $15, celebrated a different kind of victory: the creation of a tripartite Fast Food Council—bringing together workers, industry, and government—that will regulate wages in the fast food industry in California. The sector-wide minimum wage of $20 per hour went into effect on April 1.
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