LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Monday, December 16, 2024
Top Stories: USPS workers rally against tentative contract; Marathon Oil strike ends; NLRB's waiver doctrine flips again; Unions rushing to organize universities & dozens more articles...
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'It's a pay cut': USPS union members call on workers to vote 'no' on contract
USPS mail carriers took to the pick line Sunday to demand a fair contract. Some workers are calling the tentative agreement with the USPS a slap in the face.
USPS letter carriers push back against tentative contract agreement
Detroit refinery union & Marathon Petroleum reach 7-year deal
Union workers at the Marathon Petroleum (NYSE:MPC) refinery in Southwest Detroit reached a seven-year collective bargaining agreement with Teamsters members, concluding a three-month strike that began on September 4, 2024, a local newspaper reported on Sunday.
Old Standard, New Challenges: The NLRB Restores 'Clear and Unmistakable Waiver' Standard
The National Labor Relations Board issued its decision in Endurance Environmental Solutions, LLC, 373 NLRB No. 141 (2024), in which it announced a major precedential shift: a return to the “clear and unmistakable waiver" standard. This shift may make it more difficult for employers to make changes to employee working conditions without union approval.
'Time is running out.' University unions rush to organize before the Trump White House
Two years after 48,000 University of California academic workers won big pay gains in a historic six-week strike, labor experts and organizers predicted that their success, along with a labor-friendly Biden administration, would spur broad union activism within higher education institutions.
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