LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Thursday, August 1, 2024
Top Stories: Unionized strip club still closed; Unions reject Mark Kelly for Harris VP; CTU wants a tax break; NLRB's "Orwellian Choice;" Amazon cracks down on Teamster trespassers & 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
Here are today’s Top Stories…
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The Strippers’ Union Faces Employers’ Trump Card
Hell-bent on stopping workers from unionizing, employers will sometimes shut down a location or an entire business—that’s what happened at the Star Garden topless bar in LA.
Harris VP Search Team Meets Shapiro While Labor Groups Oppose Kelly
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro met with Kamala Harris’ representatives while some labor groups expressed opposition to Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, as the Democratic candidate’s search for a running mate nears its end.
Chicago Teachers Union demands $543K property tax break on union HQ
The Chicago Teachers Union is seeking a $543k property tax cut that would take about $301K from the schools where its members teach. CTU’s also making over $10 billion in contract demands, which would certainly drive up Chicagoans’ tax bills.
The NLRB’s Orwellian ‘Fair Choice – Employee Final Voice Rule’
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the federal agency that oversees union elections, has a funny idea about what constitutes giving employees an honest say in forming a union. A new rule it issued late last week, dubbed the “Fair Choice -Employee Final Voice Rule,” eliminates the right of employees to insist on an election to verify that they genuinely support the union their employer has struck a deal with.
Amazon cracks down on Teamsters’ union efforts, labor leaders detained
Video footage from a protest near an Amazon warehouse in New York shows the New York City Police Department rounding up and handcuffing union leaders.
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