LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Friday, Jan. 31, 2025
Top Stories: Starbucks & union head to mediation; Sun Country FAs have an agreement; Teamsters may strike Costco Saturday; EEOC rolls back LGBTQ guidance & dozens 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
Here are today’s Top Stories…
[There are 62 total articles in today’s News Digest and 49,793 items posted since LaborUnionNews.com was launched in 2022.]
Starbucks and Union Agree to Mediation in Quest for Contract
Starbucks and the union representing thousands of its employees said on Thursday that they were bringing in a mediator in a push to revive contract talks, which had stalled over an impasse on wage increases.
Sun Country, flight attendants reach tentative deal after five years of negotiations
More than five years since negotiations began, budget carrier Sun Country Airlines has reached a tentative collective bargaining agreement with its flight attendants.
Metro Denver King Soopers workers authorize strike; other union members vote this weekend
The United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 said union members in metro Denver and Boulder have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike against King Soopers. The timing and locations of strikes will be announced publicly before any labor action starts, the union said.
Thousands of Costco workers could go on strike starting Saturday
More than 18,000 Costco workers could go on strike as soon as Saturday as representatives from the union and company try to work out an agreement.
Costco Raises Pay to Over $30 an Hour for Most Store Workers
EEOC Acting Chair Rolls Back Guidance Related to Unlawful Discrimination and Harassment Based on Gender Identity
On January 28, 2025, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Acting Chair Andrea R. Lucas rolled back much of the EEOC’s Biden-era guidance related to issues of gender identity discrimination and harassment against LGBTQ+ individuals, marking a policy shift aligned with President Donald Trump’s recent executive order (EO) on gender.
