LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Monday, August 8, 2022
Top Stories: Teamsters Closer To Striking Costco; CWA Files Charges Over 'Captive Audience' Meetings; Unions Suppress Wages In Inflationary Times; The NLRB's $13 Million Assessment & More...
1. 17,000 Costco Teamsters Closer to Striking, Currently Working Under Expired Contract
2. Union accuses Verizon of interfering with organizing efforts at 2 Portland stores
...CWA: 'Verizon Wireless forced workers to attend mandatory captive audience meetings'...
3. WSJ: With Inflation High, Unions Suppress Wages
...RELATED: Bloomberg—As 'Non-Union Job Pay Soars,' Union Jobs 'Are Taking Back Seat' On Pay...
4. The NLRB Ordered the United Mine Workers to Pay $13 Million. This Video May Show Why.
NLRB Petitions & Charges for August 4, 2022 (for paid subscribers)
Total Entries: 58
MORE NEWS:
BARGAINING NEWS
Machinists: 5,300 Union Members at Alaska Airlines Vote to Ratify Contract
UPS Teamsters kick off 2023 contract fight with national week of action
Algoma Steel Tables Offers Revised Best and Final Offer in Negotiations with USW
ECONOMIC NEWS
GENERAL UNION NEWS
Nearly 2,000 NYPD cops quitting before getting full pensions — a 71% jump from 2021
What’s Working: Colorado employers say there’s still a labor shortage even as more jobs are filled
Pa. labor secretary visits Philly laborers union pre-apprenticeship program
GOVERNMENT UNION NEWS
Federal Employees’ Job Satisfaction Surged Under Trump, Slips Under Biden, Survey Finds
City council removes $1.2M from ARPA funding for AFSCME union, fire retention
Eighth Circuit issues opinions in two consolidated public-sector union cases
HEALTH CARE UNION NEWS
In New Mexico hospitals, lack of staffing looms in budget decisions
Grady EMS workers file unfair labor charges; hospital disputes complaints
Southern California health care workers form a union through AFSCME
HR NEWS
IRS Sets 2023 Health Plan Premium Affordability Threshold at 9.12% of Pay
Hostile work environment claims are often like trees falling in the forest
Protocol Workplace Newsletter: Can’t stop, won’t stop hiring
LABOR DISPUTES
Bogalusa workers to join labor strike at federal call centers in 3 states
Losses of A Coal Company In the United States Will Be Paid for by Striking Miners
As Strike Lingers, CNH and Union Returning to Negotiating Table
LEGAL NEWS
Kansas Supreme Court settles key points of law in former KHP chief’s employment lawsuit
Tackling Key California Labor and Employment Law Issues in Acquisitions & Mergers
ORGANIZING NEWS
“Essential workers were invisible”: First Trader Joe’s union a sign of post-pandemic labor surge
CNBC: Unions are forming at Starbucks, Apple and Google. Here’s why workers are organizing now
POLITICAL NEWS
STARBUCKS UNION NEWS
Workers strike as Starbucks fires ninth union leader in Buffalo, New York
Tonawanda Starbucks workers walk out in protest a shift supervisor’s firing
TEACHERS UNION NEWS
WSWS: Oakland, California, school security guards violently suppress anti-school closure protest
Central Alabama still dealing with teacher shortage as new school year begins
NH Department of Education takes part in in Americans for Prosperity ‘school choice’ fair
