LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Top Stories: UFCW gets a new TA with Kroger-Albertson's; Breeze FAs unionize; UAW vetoes Israel divestment; Striking IAM members reject company's offer; Challenges to NLRB cases & 57 more articles...
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Spokane Kroger, Albertsons workers ratify contract
Grocery workers in Eastern Washington state have ratified a new, three-year contract that includes wage increases and other benefit improvements, and no increases to health care premiums or deductibles.
AFA-CWA: Breeze Flight Attendants Vote Overwhelmingly to Join the Flight Attendant Union
Breeze Airways Flight Attendants voted 76.3% to join the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO (AFA) in an election certified today by the National Mediation Board (NMB). AFA continues the wave of union organizing in the south with Flight Attendants based in the least unionized state of South Carolina and Florida, Louisiana, Utah, and Virginia - all in the bottom ten.
Payday Report: UAW President Shawn Fain Vetoes Disinvestment from Israel
Last week, UAW President Shawn Fain and a majority of executive board members voted against disinvesting from Israel.
Gradall officials ‘puzzled’ after union strikers reject latest contract offer
Members of International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Local 1285 and Gradall Industries remain deadlocked in negotiations as a strike there continues into its fourth week.
Proskauer: Several Appeals Lined Up to Challenge NLRB Precedent in Court
[The] confluence of new NLRB precedent and federal court oversight of the NLRB appears very likely to come to a head in the next several months, as there are a number of impactful appeals lining up the dockets, that we plan to watch very closely.
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