LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025
Top Stories: Trump appoints new NLRB Chair; AFGE sues over DOGE; UAW's Fain wants to work with Trump; UFCW sets strike vote; Court decides Biden PLA rules unlawful & dozens 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
Here are today’s Top Stories…
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Trump Names GOP Labor Board Member Kaplan as New Agency Chair
President Donald Trump has tapped Marvin Kaplan, the National Labor Relations Board’s sole Republican member, as chair of the agency. While Kaplan gains new ministerial authority as chair of the NLRB, the board majority is still controlled by the two Democratic members, Gwynne Wilcox and David Prouty.
Trump, Allies Sued Over DOGE Plans in Union-Backed Lawsuits
The largest union of US federal government employees filed suit on Monday against President Donald Trump over his plans to create a cost-cutting "Department of Government Efficiency" headed by billionaire Elon Musk.
UAW president who endorsed Biden, Harris for president says it’s time to work with Trump
United Auto Workers (UAW) president Shawn Fain said that his union was "ready to work" with President-elect Donald Trump in an op-ed published on Sunday.
Strike-authorization vote in King Soopers labor dispute set for next week
King Soopers employees in metro Denver and Boulder will vote Jan. 29 and 30 on authorizing a strike against the supermarket chain. About 10,000 members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 will be eligible to vote.
ABC: Court Rules Biden’s Project Labor Agreement Policy Is Illegal
Associated Builders and Contractors today celebrated a decision from the U.S. Court of Federal Claims that rules in favor of ABC members that filed bid protests challenging former President Joe Biden’s controversial policy requiring anti-competitive, inflationary, union-favoring project labor agreements on federal construction projects of $35 million or more.
