LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Wednesday, August 2, 2023
LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Wednesday, August 2, 2023
Top Stories: Wabtec wants an injunction against strikers' activities; WGA to meet with producers Friday; Union organizing booming, but flattens year over year, Unions getting Far-Left help & more...
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Wabtec sues union, seeks injunction aimed at conduct of striking workers on picket line
The strike at Wabtec Corp. has moved from the bargaining table and the picket lines into court. The Pittsburgh-based locomotive manufacturer is asking a judge to issue an injunction that would bar the strikers from continuing to engage in what Wabtec claims is unlawful activity on the picket lines at the plant's gates in Lawrence Park Township. Read more…
Writers Guild, Producers Set To Meet Friday For First Time Since Strike Began
Negotiators for the Writers Guild of America and major studios are set to meet Friday to discuss negotiations, the first talks since Hollywood writers strike began May 2, the union’s negotiating committee informed its members. Read more…
Union Organizing Still Booming, But Growth Rate Slows
Union-representation petitions filed by workers with the National Labor Relations Board have been essentially flat through the first three-quarters of the fiscal year, a big slowdown in growth from the 58% increase recorded in the same nine months a year earlier. Read more…
Big Labor Is Getting an Assist From Far-Left Activists
Businesses and consumers are breathing a sigh of relief with the announcement that a national strike by workers at UPS has been averted. This is not the end of the story, however, as a new national union strategy with an explicit goal of dominating key sectors of our economy has only been emboldened. Read more…