LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Tues., Oct. 29, 2024
Top Stories: Milk-Bone workers walk out; UAW may strike GM over bargaining-unit work; UFCW approves Fred Meyer CBA; Boeing strike 'existential threat'; SF Hotel workers' strike goes on & more...
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Union workers at Buffalo Milk-Bone plant on strike
Workers at the Milk-Bone manufacturing plant in Buffalo have gone on strike for what they say are the company's unfair labor practices.
UAW sets strike authorization vote at Indiana plant. Here's what's at issue
A United Auto Workers local representing workers at General Motors Co.'s Fort Wayne Assembly Plant in Indiana is holding a strike authorization vote this week, with leaders saying the automaker is violating the national contract by having managers work on the assembly line, including performing repairs and inspections.
Fred Meyer union agrees to new 3-year contract after workers' strike
Months after thousands of Portland-area Fred Meyer employees went on strike, their union announced Monday that a new contract has been reached.
The Boeing strike is an existential threat, Boeing says
As it treads water awaiting the end of its machinists’ strike, Boeing (BA) just formally announced Monday that it’s raising $19 billion in a stock offering. And in the prospectus for that share sale, it lays out exactly how immensely the work stoppage looms in its conception of the future.
SF Hotel Worker Strike Enters 6th Week, No Deal in Sight
Tannia Turcios Brizuela picked up a megaphone on a recent morning and joined the loud chants of striking workers — “Contract now! Contract now!” — near the San Francisco hotel where she has set up banquets for more than a decade.
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