LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Top Stories: Dockworkers to Biden: Back off, Joe; Kos: Is Trader Joe's the Next Starbucks? Dodgers Concession Union Threatens to Strike All-Star Game & Much More

TOP STORIES:

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1. Dockworkers union asks Biden to refrain from intervention in SC port labor dispute

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2. Daily Kos: Could Trader Joe’s be the next Starbucks?

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3. Dodger Stadium Concession Workers Union Threatens Strike Ahead of MLB All-Star Game

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4. NLRB Releases Updated Supplement to Outline of Law and Procedure in Representation Cases

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5. Labor Relations Radio, Ep 29—Mercatus Center's Michael Farren On Unions, & Free Market Labor Policy

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NLRB Petitions & Charges for July 8, 2022 (for paid subscribers)

61 Total Entries

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MORE NEWS:

BARGAINING NEWS

• WSWS: GM Subsystems workers: Reject UAW’s pro-company deal

• WSWS: “Striking is the only option, it seems like”: LA casual dockworkers call for united struggle

• Strike avoided: Fresno bus drivers cut new deal with city after weekend negotiations

• New Restaurant Workers Union at Genwa Could Transform Labor Rights in LA

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GOVERNMENT UNION NEWS

• Privatizers Thwarted: Biden’s VA Facility Closing Panel Blocked in the Senate

• Enid approves bargaining agreement with city workers’ union

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HEALTH CARE UNION NEWS

• Gov. Tom Wolf, nursing homes come to agreement to boost staff

• Georgia Nursing Association to host annual professional conference

• University of California Nurses Ratify New Three-Year Contract

• UVM Medical Center nurses vote to ratify new contract

• Medical Techs Organize Oregon Nurses Association at Pendleton Hospital

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HR NEWS

• SHRM: June Job Growth Blows Past Expectations

• PBGC Issues Final Rule on Assistance for Underfunded Union Pension Plans

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LABOR DISPUTES

• Quarry Workers Strike Stalls Milwaukee Avenue Resurfacing Work — And Other Projects City Wide

• How a 1934 waterfront strike was a major turning point for West Coast labor

• Union workers continue strike at General Dynamics in Marion

• John Deere union members join CNH Industrial workers on the picket line

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LEGAL NEWS

• St. Paul appeals court ruling against vaccine mandate

• What’s the Latest on Right to Work Louisiana’s Economy?

• Labor Law: Court dismisses lawsuit filed by employees disciplined for wearing Black Lives Matter masks

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ORGANIZING NEWS

• Minnesota United denies video board techs’ unionization request at Allianz Field

• Verizon Wireless Retail Workers in Flint, Mich., File for Union Election With CWA

• Workers at Michigan Chipotle Mexican Grill petition to organize union in affiliation with Teamsters

• New Prevailing Wage Law In Illinois Puts Pressure On General Contractors To Sign Up With Unions

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STARBUCKS UNION NEWS

• Starbucks CEO Schultz Makes Another Effort to Quell Employee Unrest

• Why This Court Case Is So Meaningful To The Starbucks Union Effort

• No union for Fresno Starbucks after vote. Critic blames company’s ‘anti-union campaign’

• Lafayette Starbucks workers file to unionize, claiming management ignored complaints

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TEACHERS UNION NEWS

• Randi Weingarten gets schooled for tweet about classrooms becoming ‘too politicized:’ ‘Look in the mirror’

• U.S. teachers’ job dissatisfaction skyrockets

• Jill Biden to headline teachers union convention

• Largest Teachers Union Discusses Dousing “Mom” And Going With “Birthing Parent”

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UNION CORRUPTION

• ‘The rank and file needs to have a say’: Chicago Ford workers support Will Lehman’s campaign for UAW president

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