LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Monday, September 9, 2024
Today's Top Stories: Boeing & Machinists agree to a TA; BorgWarner Teamsters strike; Amazon challenges NLRB; Congress to hear about Biden's $6.6 billion union fight & 64 more articles below the fold..
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Here are today’s Top Stories…
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Machinists union agrees on tentative contract deal with Boeing
The contract offers workers a 25% general wage increase, enhanced retirement benefits, fewer hours of mandatory overtime work and increased parental leave.
Boeing Stock Jumps…
More than 750 BorgWarner workers go on strike in New York
On Friday, Sept. 6, workers at BorgWarner’s Lansing plant voted down the company’s labor contract offer. As of midnight, roughly 760 workers had walked off the job.
Amazon Launches Lawsuit Against NLRB Structure
Amazon is taking significant legal steps to challenge the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), arguing not only against its structure but also accusing it of improperly swaying the results of union elections.
Biden’s $6.6 billion union fight with Medicare contractor lands on lawmakers’ doorsteps
All 535 members of Congress will be greeted with a new lobbying campaign hanging on their office doors when they return to Capitol Hill on Monday from a more than monthlong summer recess.
UAW to pull out of AFL-CIO over NJ casino smoking loophole
United Auto Workers’ director is furious at other unions for supporting indoor smoking in Atlantic City casinos.
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