LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Friday, April 19, 2024
Top Stories: Disney Vacation Club sales reps want to unionize; Parents file $100 million lawsuit against Teachers' union; Doctors strike; Cornell's ILR trains union organizers & 55 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…
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Disney Vacation Club sales reps seek union election in Anaheim
It’s never happened at the Disney Vacation Club since the timeshare program first began in 1990.
Portland parents file $100M lawsuit against teachers union for losses during strike
A group of Portland Public Schools parents have filed a lawsuit seeking $100 million against the Portland Association of Teachers (PAT) and the Oregon Education Association (OEA), alleging their historic 2023 strike caused negative emotional and educational impacts on students as well as financial losses and work disruptions for parents.
Doctors Strike at Detroit Hospital After Unionizing Last Year
Less than a year after voting to unionize, emergency medicine physicians contracted through the private equity-backed staffing firm TeamHealth to work at Ascension St. John Hospital in Detroit walked off the job and onto a picket line.
Cornell’s ILR institute trains the next generation of union organizers
[Students] learned to assess their organizations, understand precarity in areas like the gig economy and globalization, and advance diversity, equity and inclusion. They studied how to build agreements with stakeholders, organize union members and run campaigns.
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