LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Monday, August 1, 2022
Top Stories: Teamsters End 12-Week Strike; Unions Go To Pot; Child Labor in Alabama? Chick-fil-A Gets a Lesson in FLSA; and much more...
TOP STORIES:
1. Teamsters Declare Victory, End 12-Week Strike Against Fire King
...Strikers lost 23% pay during strike...
2. Booming US cannabis industry seen as fertile ground for union expansion
3. Peoples World: Children as young as 12 working in Hyundai-owned plant in Alabama
4. N.C. Chick-fil-A faces backlash over asking volunteers to work drive-thru for food, not pay
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Total Entries: 52
MORE NEWS:
BARGAINING NEWS
CEO of Union Pacific: ‘Our team deserves to see a raise’ in labor negotiations
No strike: Steelworkers reach tentative agreement with Goodyear
WSJ: Boeing makes new contract offer to defense workers, delaying strike
ECONOMIC NEWS
ICYMI: Calculate how much more mortgages will cost as interest rates rise
Are we in a recession? It doesn’t matter, Fed official says: ‘I’m focused on the inflation data’
Hawaii Electricity Prices To Skyrocket As Final Shipment Of Coal Arrives
GENERAL UNION NEWS
Machinists Union Says Defending Workers’ Rights is the Top Priority in JetBlue-Spirit Tie-Up
‘Sending drivers out to die’: UPS Teamsters demand heat safety amid record temps
GOVERNMENT UNION NEWS
Republicans push bill to make federal workers fireable ‘at will’
AFSCME’s Saunders Calls Inflation Reduction Act ‘an Economic Game Changer’
HEALTH CARE UNION NEWS
CWA, 1199SEIU Union Healthcare Workers at Kaleida Not Extending Contract
Dartmouth Health media policy amounts to doctors’ gag orders
The Michigan Medicine nurses contract fight and the right to strike
Sequoia Hospital reaches agreement with health care union, ending two-week strike
Oregon State Hospital extends incentive pay days before it was set to expire
Health Care Union News for the Week of July 23 through July 30, 2022
LABOR DISPUTES
LEGAL NEWS
Massachusetts Budget Includes Changes to State’s Paid Family and Medical Leave Act
Major legal fights loom over abortion pills, travel out of state
Puerto Rico Enacts New Legislation on Remote Workers of “Out-of-State” Employers
NLRB NEWS
FTC and NLRB Announce Interagency Cooperation in the “Gig Economy”
People’s World: NLRB uses Atlanta case vs. independent contractor dodge
ORGANIZING NEWS
Veterinary Workers Vote to Unionize in Orchard Park, New York
Vox: Leaked memo reveals the tech giant’s plans to combat the Teamsters in California
...Teamsters' O'Brien: 'I love the fact we're occupying space in their head'...
NRTW: Minneapolis Metalworkers Win After Year-And-a-Half-Long Effort to Vote Out CWA
POLITICAL NEWS
Truthout: Unions Can Do Plenty to Help Defend Abortion Access
Mid-Terms: Joe Manchin evasive on if he wants Democrats to keep control of Congress
STARBUCKS UNION NEWS
Workers at 2 closing Seattle Starbucks stores negotiate deal, a first for new union
As Starbucks exits, Union Station struggles with safety, empty stores
Starbucks union workers: Concessions won following store closures, negotiations
TEACHERS UNION NEWS
Pennsylvania has more teachers, fewer students, and there’s still a teacher shortage; here’s how
Texas AFT Launches Statewide Campaign for the Respect Teachers, School Employees Deserve
Study: Utah public schools, students high achievers despite low state funding
Former Obama White House education advisor sentenced to prison for charter school theft scheme
