LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Top Stories: Bird Workers Union may strike; Teamsters' O'Brien bashes Musk and Trump; AFSCME leaders re-elected by acclimation; SAG-AFTRA inks an AI deal in Hollywood & 57 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
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Unionized Bird Workers with Audubon Society Prepare for Potential Strike
Dressed in red T-shirts and waving signs reading “Birds of a feather stick together,” “Owl in for a fair contract” and “Withholding benefits is looney,” about 20 supporters and unionized workers for the National Audubon Society in the Bay Area flocked to a picket line in Oakland.
Teamsters President — Who Spoke at RNC — Slams Trump’s Position on Firing Striking Workers
Former President Donald Trump told Elon Musk during their Twitter/X conversation on Monday that he supported firing workers who went on strike — and one labor union leader who had Trump’s back is now calling the threat “economic terrorism.”
President, secretary-treasurer of AFSCME reelected by acclamation
The top two leaders of AFSCME, the nation’s leading public service union, were reelected Tuesday, Aug. 13, to four-year terms. Delegates reelected President Lee Saunders and Secretary-Treasurer Elissa McBride by acclamation on the second day of the 46th AFSCME International Convention being held here.
Hollywood union strikes deal for advertisers to replicate actors' voices with AI
The Hollywood actors' union SAG-AFTRA announced on Wednesday a deal with online talent marketplace Narrativ that enables actors to sell advertisers rights to replicate their voices with artificial intelligence.
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