LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Wednesday, November 22, 2023
Top Stories: VW hikes wages, White House scrubs 'Official Time' info; Medieval Knights surrender; Portland teachers block a bridge and more...
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Volkswagen becomes the latest automaker to hike wages for U.S. factory workers
Volkswagen said on Wednesday that it would hike salaries for production workers at its Tennessee-based Chattanooga assembly plant by 11%, weeks after the United Auto Workers union won significant pay and benefit hikes from the Detroit Three automakers. Read more…
White House scrubs webpage showing how taxpayers fund union activities
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) quietly deleted a webpage tracking how much official time federal employees spend working on labor union tasks. Read more…
Medieval Times Workers End Their Strike
Workers at a Medieval Times castle in Southern California have ended their nine-month strike against the dinner theater chain and plan to go back to their jobs Wednesday. The workers’ union said it had submitted an unconditional offer to return to work and that Medieval Times had accepted. Read more…
Portland teachers union members march, temporarily block traffic on bridge
A large group of demonstrators, made up of members of the Portland Association of Teachers (PAT) and their allies, blocked traffic and walked across the Burnside Bridge in Portland on Tuesday morning. The group stopped in the middle of the bridge for about 15 minutes before continuing their march. Read more…
ICYMI: Labor Relations Radio, E100—Attorney Joel Aziere on Concerted Activity, Tesla & the NLRB
In this, the 100th episode of Labor Relations Radio, Labor Attorney Joel Aziere with the firm Buelow Vetter Buikema Olson & Vliet shares how the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), under General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo has pushed the concept of protected concerted activity far beyond what most employers would have recognized in prior decades. Listen…