LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Monday, March 18, 2024
Top Stories: UAW files for another election at VW; REI's progressive reputation at risk; Teamsters rally against Molson Coors; Rutgers sued over strike; Dr. Pepper driver explains decert & more...
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VW Workers Seek Union Vote at Tennessee Plant for Third Time
The United Automobile Workers union said that 70 percent of the 4,000 eligible Volkswagen workers at a Chattanooga factory had signed cards expressing support. Read more…
A Growing Union Campaign Has Put REI's Progressive Image On Trial
With nine stores and counting now organized, workers say the popular cooperative risks damaging its reputation in a prolonged contract fight. Read more…
Teamsters (on Facebook): Hundreds of Teamsters Rally Against Molson Coors
Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien and General Secretary-Treasurer Fred Zuckerman joined hundreds of Texas Teamsters today on strike against Molson Coors in Fort Worth. Read more…
Rutgers Unions Sued Over Strike; Case Seeks National Impact
Ajunior is suing Rutgers University faculty, graduate student, postdoctoral associate and counselor unions that struck in April 2023—plus their state and national union affiliates—for depriving him of a week of education. The student’s lawyers are asking a judge to let the suit become a class action case that could pit 67,000 Rutgers students against the unions. Read more…
A truck driver with Keurig Dr Pepper explains vote to decertify Teamsters
While Wisconsin saw a bump in union activity last year with efforts from coffeehouse, nursing and video game workers, a group of truck drivers across the state recently voted to disband their union. Read more…
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