LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Wednesday, September 6, 2023
Top Stories: Wells Fargo unionization spreading across U.S.; Striking nurses lose healthcare coverage; Yale's negotiations with police stalled; Walmart adds AI to boost corporate productivity & more
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[66 total articles today; nearly 23,500 articles posted since January 2022]
Organizing Wells Fargo Now Reaches Across the Nation
This past April, Bloomberg News reported on an internal Wells Fargo PowerPoint presentation shared among the bank’s executives. It displayed increasing concerns about their workers organizing with the Communications Workers of America (CWA), a years-long effort in the making that could soon pay off. Read more…
Striking RWJUH Nurses Feel Sting of Losing Health Insurance Coverage
The 1,700 striking Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital nurses are feeling the sting after having lost their employer-sponsored health insurance coverage. Read more…
Yale University, police union contract negotiations off to rocky start
While the Yale police union was distributing flyers to new students and their families on move-in day, warning the newcomers of the dangers of New Haven, behind closed doors, the union’s contract negotiations with the University had largely stalled. Read more…
Walmart's corporate employees are getting a generative AI assistant while Amazon and Apple are restricting AI
Walmart is expanding AI efforts in its workplace with a new AI "assistant." It's one of many generative AI tools the company has already employed across to its 50,000 corporate employees. Read more…