LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024
Today's Top Stories: The future of labor law under SCOTUS' review; WNBA opts out of CBA; Return-to-work mandates prompt government unionization; Lush Cosmetics petitioned & 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
Here are today’s Top Stories…
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In These Times: The Right Believes It Has the Supreme Court Votes to Overturn Labor Law
The foundational 1935 labor law protecting workers is unconstitutional, according to major corporations and right-wing zealots who believe they have enough votes on the Supreme Court to overturn it. In the latest sign that anti-union forces will doggedly press the matter, a federal judge for the Northern District of Texas enjoined the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) from processing any allegations of employer violations of workers’ rights.
WNBA players opt out of CBA: Salaries, long-term benefits among focus
The WNBA players' union announced Monday that the players will opt out of their current collective bargaining agreement with the league. The news comes a day after the WNBA Finals concluded with the New York Liberty winning their first league title.
Return-to-office mandates are causing more federal workers to unionize
Return-to-office mandates have stirred significant unrest among employees across various sectors, culminating in noteworthy union advocacy and opposition. One prominent example is the recent push by trial attorneys within the Environment and Natural Resources division of the U.S. Department of Justice to form the first attorneys’ union in the department’s history.
Lush Cosmetics workers at St. Louis Galleria Mall become first in Missouri to file for union vote
Workers at the St. Louis Galleria Mall Lush Cosmetic’s location filed a petition to hold a union vote to join United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 655, marking the first Lush employees in Missouri to do so.
Nearly 80 union members walk out at Dow Chemical demanding fair compensation
“Approximately 77 IAM Local 598 members who work at Dow Chemical in South Charleston have taken the difficult step of voting to go on strike to secure fair wages and protect their right to holidays and vacations as part of their benefits package," District 54 president and directing business representative T. Dean Wright Jr. said.
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