LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025
Top Stories: Trump offers buyouts to federal workers; Union membership falls further; Starbucks sit-down strikers arrested; Utah 'union busting' bill passes house; SEIU fined & 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 57 total articles in today’s News Digest and 49,661 items posted since LaborUnionNews.com was launched in 2022.]
White House offers 2 million federal employees financial incentives to quit
The Trump administration said on Tuesday it is offering financial incentives to 2 million civilian full-time federal workers to quit as part of plans to drastically shrink the size of the U.S. government.
US labor union membership slips in 2024 to record low
U.S. union membership levels declined slightly to record lows last year, a government report said on Tuesday, and now organized labor faces fresh challenges from President Donald Trump's return to the White House.
Seven arrested as Starbucks baristas go on strike in Park Slope
Several arrests were reported Tuesday as Starbucks baristas went on strike in Park Slope. The strike and sit-in happened just days before the unionized store was slated to close.
'Union buster' bill that bans teachers, police from negotiating wages passes Utah House
A bill that focuses on eliminating bargaining rights by labor unions in the public sector - including those representing teachers, law enforcement and firefighters - passed the Utah House.
Court orders union to pay $6.28M for ‘unlawful strike’ at HCA California hospital
A federal court has concurred with an arbitrator's decision ordering Service Employees International Union 121RN to pay Riverside (Calif.) Community Hospital, part of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, $6.26 million in damages related to a 10-day strike held in June 2020, according to court documents accessed by Becker's.
