LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Friday, Jan. 17, 2025
Top Stories: NLRB GC issues another memo; King Soopers gives UFCW filnal offer; Teamsters seek help in 4-month strike; NFL union to layoff half its workforce & 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…
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NLRB General Counsel Abruzzo Issues Memo on Harmonizing the NLRA and EEO Laws
Today, NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued a memo to all field offices on the harmonization of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and federal equal employment opportunity (EEO) laws.
King Soopers gives final offer to local union ahead of contract deadline
King Soopers and City Market met with UFCW Local 7 union representatives Thursday evening ahead of the union’s labor contract extension expiration at midnight. This would impact contracts for Denver, Boulder, Broomfield, Parker and some Colorado Springs stores.
Teamsters seek help as Bigfoot Beverages strike continues
A spokesperson from Bigfoot Beverages says the company now has a fully staffed team that does not wish to be represented collectively.
NFLPA offers buyouts to roughly half of its employees
The NFLPA has offered buyouts to about half its 150 employees and leadership suggested that involuntary job cuts could be coming if enough workers don’t accept the offer, sources said.
