LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Thursday, October 27, 2022

Top Stories: Chances of a Nationwide Rail Strike Just Doubled; AFL-CIO's Shuler: No Worker Off Limit For Unions; An Ex-Teamster Boss Sentenced For Extortion; NLRB Accuses Amazon CEO of ULPs & More...

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TOP STORIES:

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1. A second railroad union votes down Biden’s tentative agreement

...New fears of a nationwide strike stoked...

...White House: "any shutdown would be completely unacceptable”...

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2. AFL-CIO’s Shuler: ‘No Worker Off Limits…’

3. Former Teamsters boss John Coli Sr. sentenced to 19 months in federal prison in extortion case

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4. Amazon CEO Jassy Violated Labor Laws, NLRB Regional Head Says

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NLRB Petitions & Charges for Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Total Entries filed on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022: 49

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Labor Relations Radio, Ep. 41—Did a Federal Court Just Legitimize Union Forgery? It Sure Seems Like It.

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MORE NEWS:

BARGAINING NEWS

• USW questions U.S. Steel CEO pay, investor rewards in protracted dispute over raises

• Harvard Workers Rally for Wage Increases Amid Contract Negotiations

• City Colleges of Chicago union says it will strike next week without a new contract

• Southwest Airlines Reaches Tentative Agreement With IAM For New Contract

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ECONOMIC NEWS

• HuffPost: Elizabeth Warren And Bernie Sanders Lead Opposition To Kroger-Albertsons Merger

• GDP accelerated at 2.6% pace in Q3, better than expected

  ..."we don’t expect this strength to be sustained"...

• Machinists Union Urges Congress to Support Increased Domestic Military Procurement

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GENERAL UNION NEWS

• Counterpunch: Will There be a National Strike at UPS?

• AFL-CIO’s Shuler: ‘No Worker Off Limits…’

• Queering the Labor Movement: ‘leaders, both in our union staff and our members, are mostly men’

• One Broker’s View: Let’s Lift OT Exemption for Truckers

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GOVERNMENT UNION NEWS

• Social Security Union Rallies Outside the Agency’s Headquarters for Funding, Bargaining and Training

• One of NJ’s largest labor unions sues Gov. Murphy claiming gender, racial discrimination

• Union Charges National Park Service with Violating Federal Labor Law, for Filing a Petition Seeking to Decertify the AFGE

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HEALTH CARE UNION NEWS

• Healthcare workers strike at Windham Hospital

• Nurses to petition Tenet hospital CEO over elimination of IV therapy team

• Becker’s: 5 hospitals, health systems raising nurses’ pay

• American Nurses Association Opposes Restrictions on Transgender Healthcare and Criminalizing Gender-Affirming Care

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LABOR DISPUTES

• Workers strike at Starbucks NYC Roastery

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LEGAL NEWS

• California company seeks workplace violence restraining order after employees speak up

• Ogletree: Contractor Vaccine Mandate Still On Hold, For Now

• Hundreds of Bay Area workers score multi-million dollar settlement

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ORGANIZING NEWS

• Amazon workers in parts of US strike amid alleged crackdown on unionisation efforts

• Teamsters: Flora Terra Cannabis Workers Vote to Unionize

• Trader Joe’s workers in Williamsburg begin vote on store’s first NYC union election

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POLITICAL NEWS

• Alternet: Biden can kiss future Supreme Court nominations goodbye if GOP wins Senate

• Fetterman’s rocky debate raises anxiety among Democrats

• Oklahoma’s Kevin Stitt joins 18 other governors to oppose Biden Administration’s proposed Union Labor agreement

• Facing Child Labor Scandal, Hyundai Asks Biden for Subsidies

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STARBUCKS UNION NEWS

• Starbucks accuses Ann Arbor union of unfair labor practices

• Cornell Experts Skeptical Starbucks Will Bargain in Good Faith, Stalls Just the Start

• Willis Tower Starbucks Workers Announce Plans to Unionize

• Starbucks Manager Was Told To “Punish” Union Members

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TEACHERS UNION NEWS

• ‘Time to end arbitration’: After 3 years, DC teachers union holds rally for new contract

• Dayton Public Schools, teachers union reach tentative agreement

• Starting Salaries Raised With Amended Methacton Teachers’ Contract

• ‘Huge invasion of privacy’: KCK teachers denounce adding cameras in every classroom

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