LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Friday, September 2, 2022

Top Stories: Another Apple Store Files To Unionize; NLRB Rejects Amazon Bid To Overturn Election Loss; Non-Union Workers Turn To NLRB For Redress; AFL-CIO Prez Wants One Million New Members & More...

TOP STORIES:

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1. Apple Employees in Oklahoma City Petition to Unionize Store

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2. NLRB rejects Amazon’s objections to union victory

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3. Nonunion workers turn to federal labor law to challenge employers

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4. AFL-CIO President Wants to Organize 1 Million New Workers Over Next Decade

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NLRB Petitions & Charges for August 30, 2022 (for paid subscribers)

Total Entries: 59 [*Updated]

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BARGAINING NEWS

• Rail Workers Reject Contract Recommendations, Say They’re Ready to Strike

• Starbucks and Amazon accused of dragging their feet on union contracts

• Hudson Valley residential workers — doormen, porters, supers — need a contract

• Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal gets global scrutiny

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GENERAL UNION NEWS

• Mexican Auto Parts Workers Win a Union of Their Own, Defeating Company Attempts to Impose One

• California Globe: An Unhappy Labor Day for California Workers

• Teamster National President Sean O’Brien Calls For Unions To “Unite To Shut Down Commerce”

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GOVERNMENT UNION NEWS

• City and Union Sign EMS Labor Contract Following Council Approval

• City employee union asks to resume talks as budget hearings continue

• OHSU-AFSCME collective bargaining enters week 25

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HEALTH CARE UNION NEWS

• 1199 SEIU gets votes for five-day strikes

• Fighting for Union Recognition and Quality Care: An Interview with a Madison, WI Nurse

• SEIU Healthcare: Union workers to strike at 4 more Pa. nursing homes

• North Lincoln Nurses to Unionize

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HR NEWS

• Checking the pulse of the American worker on labor unions as we enter Labor Day Weekend

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LEGAL NEWS

• Pennsylvania Federal Judge Tosses Challenge to Employer Jab or Swab Mandate

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NLRB NEWS

• Nonunion workers turn to federal labor law to challenge employers

• Amazon Bid to Overturn Union Victory Rejected by US Official

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ORGANIZING NEWS

• Wages, union organizing rise in Wisconsin as workers demand better conditions

• In a First for Architects, a New York City Firm Forms a Union

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POLITICAL NEWS

• California Democrats kill bill that would have let legislative employees unionize

• AFL-CIO Praises Biden as ‘Most Pro-union President’

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STARBUCKS UNION NEWS

• NYC files lawsuit against Starbucks for firing union-organizing barista in Astoria, Queens

• In Response to Union-Busting, Workers at a Chicago Starbucks Went on Strike

• Starbucks’ New CEO: Here’s What To Know About Laxman Narasimhan

• Starbucks workers take union fight to TikTok

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TEACHERS UNION NEWS

• Texas teacher shortage: Houston ISD touts raises but admits more needed to retain workforce

• Behind those misleading headlines on Colorado teacher pay

• As education unions go woke with ‘intersectionality,’ real learning suffers

• CTU: Ensuring timely payment of IEP interpreter stipends

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