LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Monday, July 18, 2022

Top Stories: MLB All-Star Game Won't Be Interrupted By Strike; Tik Tok and PCA; Knights Unionize; Biden Acts on Potential Rail Strike & More...

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1. Union: We won’t strike during 2022 All-Star Game festivities

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2. ‘TikTok got me fired.’ Here’s what you should ponder before hitting send

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3. Medieval Times cast forms its first-ever union in NJ

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4. Biden Creates Emergency Panel to Stave Off Rail Worker Strike

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5. After Years of Tension, ICE is OUT of Government Employees Union

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MORE NEWS:

BARGAINING NEWS

• Teamsters Ratify Red Cross National Agreement

• Machinists Union Recommends Rejection of Boeing Defense Labor Contract in St. Louis

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ECONOMIC NEWS

• We were wrong about the Great Resignation. Workers are still powerless and the looming recession will make it worse.

• From $25 billion to $167 million: How a major crypto lender collapsed

• Only 10% of new homes now sell for less than $300,000

• Oil Prices Blamed For Inflation When The Driver Is Really Food

• Retail sales rose more than expected in June

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GOVERNMENT UNION NEWS

• A Schedule F Ban Is Among Many Workforce Provisions in the Annual Defense Policy Bill the House Just Passed

• AFSCME: Bettendorf Union Files Suit Against City

• A Union Rally at the Philadelphia Museum Draws Protesters Blasting the Institution

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HEALTH CARE UNION NEWS

• University of Michigan nurses call for ‘safe staffing’ as contract negotiations continue

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NLRB NEWS

• Op-Ed: The National Labor Relations Board shouldn’t be picking sides

• Time Warner Cable NLRB Case Tossed After Settlement With Union

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ORGANIZING NEWS

• One Amazon worker’s lonely effort to unionize a WA warehouse

• Albany Amazon Warehouse Workers Form Labor Union

• Amazon instructs New York workers ‘don’t sign’ union cards

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POLITICAL NEWS

• Jill Biden On Joe Biden’s Sidetracked Agenda: ‘He had so many hopes’…

• Joe Biden Acted to Avert a Railroad Crisis, for Now

• Rep. Axne Introduces Legislation to Protect Health Insurance for Locked Out Workers

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STARBUCKS UNION NEWS

• Union Efforts Spike-Is Starbucks Employee Friendly?

• Newly Unionized Howell Mill Starbucks Employees Stage One-Day Strike Over Shift Cuts, Refusal to Negotiate

  …Workers Strike at Unionized Atlanta Starbucks; Store Closes for the Day

  ….Starbucks union strikes in Cottonwood Heights, store closes for the day

• Starbucks workers hold picket line at Reserve Roastery, accuse company of union busting

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