LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025
Top Stories: UFCW members voting to strike; WGA members ratify ABC News CBA; NLRB member's firing may be an inflection point; Federal workers reeling over Trump buyout offer & 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…
[There are 60 total articles in today’s News Digest and 49,734 items posted since LaborUnionNews.com was launched in 2022.]
King Soopers employees to vote on potential strike
A strike could be looming for some grocery stores. This week, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 members began meeting to vote on potentially taking action, following failed wage negotiations.
WGA East Members at ABC News Ratify New Contract
Members of the Writers Guild of America East (WGAE) at ABC News have overwhelmingly ratified a new three-year collective bargaining agreement.
Why the Firing of Gwynne Wilcox Could Be an Inflection Point for the NLRB…
In more recent decades, the Supreme Court has begun to pare back removal protections. In Free Enterprise Fund v. PCAOB, it struck down a double-layered system of removal protections for inferior executive officers. In Seila Law LLC v. CFPB, it struck down removal protections for the sole head of an otherwise independent agency. And in United States v. Arthrex, it seemed to reject the very concept of quasi-legislative or quasi-judicial agencies.
Federal workers reeling over Trump’s ‘buyout’ offer…
“There’s also a deep suspicion, especially among people who think they may be on the chopping block, that this is the last lifeboat in town,” said an employee.
