LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Friday, August 30, 2024
Top Stories: AI's Kill Switch bill in CA; Florida vs. Michigan; Arrests at Virgin in Vegas; Painters' pension divests of Israeli firms; Ex-UMWA officer indicted in pipeline sabotage & 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
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California’s Controversial AI ‘Kill Switch’ Bill Passes Legislative Vote
A bill seeking to regulate artificial intelligence developed in California is moving toward becoming law. SB-1047, the Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act, cleared the legislature with a 41-9 vote on Wednesday, as reported by Politico.
WSJ: Florida vs. Michigan on Public Unions
States are drifting apart on issues like taxes and school choice, and a big reason is the relative power of public unions. A new report shows which states have managed to curb their government-employee lobby, and which have entrenched it.
‘No progress’ in months-long Virgin contract dispute, union leader says
Approximately 23 Culinary Union members were arrested at the Virgin Las Vegas Thursday evening in an act of non-violent civil disobedience as 700 hospitality workers continue pushing for a new 5-year union contract at the property, according to the culinary union.
Painters’ Union to Divest Pension Fund from Israeli Firms to Protest Gaza Genocide
The president of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, Jimmy Williams Jr., says his union is directing its massive international pension fund to divest from the Gaza genocide. Williams spoke Thursday at IUPAT’s general convention.
Former union director indicted on Warrior Met Coal gas pipeline damage
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama Western Division has indicted one man in connection with the Warrior Met Coal gas pipeline damage that occurred near the intersection of Hanna Creek Road and Sandlin Mountain Road in Brookwood, Alabama in 2022.
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