LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Top Stories: Ski patrol strike may be ending; Chicago school negotiations have 'ground to a halt'; ILA may strike one week from today; Blocked U.S. Steel sale may hurt workers & 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 53 total articles in today’s News Digest and 48,594 items posted since LaborUnionNews.com was launched in 2022.]
Park City Mountain ski patrol, Vail Resorts reach tentative agreement
Ski patrollers at Park City Mountain Resort appear to be headed back to the slopes. Park City Mountain and Park City Professional Ski Patrol Association announced late Tuesday that they have reached a new tentative agreement through April 2027.
CTU: Contract talks with CPS have ‘ground to a halt’
The slow progress that both Chicago Public Schools and Chicago Teachers Union representatives have expressed in recent days toward a contract deal has apparently come to an end.
“Ground to a halt. We are stalled, stopped,” CTU Vice President Jackson Potter said Tuesday.
Bananas, Beverages and Bottlenecks: Second Port Strike on Deck
Everyone loves a sequel — don’t they? Well, ready or not, we’re gearing up for a second showdown between the International Longshoreman’s Association (ILA) union and the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX). A three-day strike last fall (Oct. 1-3) delivered a tentative agreement for a 62% base wage increase for hourly dockworkers (from $39 to $63 per hour) over six years, as well as an extension of the master contract to allow more time for final negotiations.
Axios: What’s good for a union isn’t always what’s good for workers
President Biden blocked Japan's Nippon Steel from buying U.S. Steel last week, earning the approval of the United Steelworkers union, which desperately wanted the deal crushed. But steel workers themselves may be less than enthused.
