LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Wednesday, March 29, 2023
Top Stories: The Teamster' big election loss; Amid strike, more Medieval Times workers want to unionize; The UAW's new direction; Howard Schultz takes the 'Hot Seat' & 37 more articles...
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California Port Truckers Vote against the Teamsters
The Left insists that workers really want unions, if only given the chance. California passed A.B. 5 to get more independent contractors reclassified as employees, partly to allow them to unionize. The Teamsters supported that law because many truck drivers are independent contractors, not employees. Read more…
HuffPost: Medieval Times’ Sound And Lighting Technicians To Form Union
An ongoing strike by knights, queens and other cast at the California castle led to a new union effort by technical workers who help put on the show. Read more…
How UAW’s transforming itself ahead of contract talks with automakers
The UAW will take a new direction under a new and relatively unknown leader after what's been a turbulent few years as the union emerges from a scandal and enters a new era of unifying to fight for a new contract with Detroit automakers. Read more…
WATCH: Former Starbucks CEO Testifies on Treatment of Union Organizing
NLRB Petitions & Charges for Tuesday, March 28, 2023
Total Entries filed March 27, 2023: 88
MORE NEWS…
BARGAINING NEWS
Michigan’s ‘right-to-work’ repeal to bring employers, unions to the bargaining table
Directors Guild Sets Leadership to Helm Member Outreach Efforts During 2023 Negotiations
ECONOMIC NEWS
There’s a full grab bag of US economic data on the economic calendar today
Understanding America’s Labor Shortage: The Most Impacted Industries
BP Whiting Refinery looking to fill jobs that eventually could pay over $50 an hour
GENERAL UNION NEWS
GOVERNMENT UNION NEWS
Wexner Center for the Arts employees unanimously vote to unionize
Jacobin: In Los Angeles, 60,000 Education Workers Just Went on Strike and Won Big
Nature Museum employees in Illinois forming union with AFSCME
HEALTH CARE UNION NEWS
NNU: Marina del Rey nurses to hold informational picket for a fair contract
After hospital lockdown at Albany Med, nurses union calls for improved safety measures
Nurses unions, hospital association strike deal on staffing bill
HR NEWS
LABOR DISPUTES
UM graduate students call strike; university prepares for legal action
‘Huge victory’: Local workers welcomed back after over three weeks on strike
NLRB NEWS
ORGANIZING NEWS
Kentucky Amazon workers determined to unionize fly to Seattle to join protest
Apple Fires Workers in Escalation of Illegal Anti-Union Intimidation Campaign
POLITICAL NEWS
It Turns Out Anti-Gig Economy Law AB 5 Was Tarnished by ‘Backroom Dealing’
The Hill: Congress should take an all of the above approach to supporting unions
STARBUCKS UNION NEWS
New Report Exposes Hypocrisy of “Progressive” Starbucks Union Group
Starbucks Allegedly Broke The Law By Refusing Union Zoom Meetings
TEACHERS UNION NEWS
Teachers speak out about DPS disciplinary changes, union says more support needed
Cleveland teachers share thoughts on safety and demand action after Nashville shooting
US Supreme Court Declines to Hear Arguments in Jusino Ramon v. Federation of Catholic Teachers Case
