LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Friday, Sept. 27, 2024
Today's Top Stories: Symphony musicians strike; NLRB's new rules help unions; Oakland A's concession workers blast Aramark; Chicago Mayor's shady donors' deals & more...
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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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National Symphony Orchestra musicians go on strike at the Kennedy Center
Dozens of National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) musicians went on strike Friday, prompting the Kennedy Center to cancel a sold-out gala celebrating a new NSO season.
FLASHBACK: Kennedy Center Received $270 Million From Congress And Paid Their President $5+ Million Since 2016
NLRB's Final Rule Restores Union Toolkit for Keeping Bargaining Representative Status
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has issued another union-friendly final rule. The Fair Choice-Employee Voice Final Rule (Final Rule), scheduled to become effective September 30, 2024, resurrects three procedural tools that have historically allowed unions to win or retain representation rights: (1) blocking charges, (2) the voluntary recognition bar, and (3) parity for the construction industry.
Union for Oakland Coliseum concessions workers says Aramark will not hold up deal after A's departure
The union representing Oakland Coliseum food service workers alleges that their employer is refusing to provide already accrued health care benefits after the A's baseball team leaves town.
Chicago’s Mayor Johnson takes, gives back campaign cash from janitorial businesses that share in fat CPS contracts
Four janitorial companies and executives sharing in $330 million in new contracts with the Chicago Public Schools to clean hundreds of buildings had contributed to Mayor Brandon Johnson’s campaign fund several months before the bidding got underway last year, records show.
U.S. Ports Try Last-Ditch Effort to Force Dockworkers’ Union to Bargaining Table
Port operators and shipping lines are trying to force unionized dockworkers to the bargaining table days before a threatened strike that would shut down more than half the seaports in the U.S.
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