LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Tuesday, June 13, 2023
Top Stories: LGBTQ at the forefront of Chicago's labor resurgence; Acting Labor Secretary enters port fracas; Erie, PA is now center of 'right to strike' test; UAW wins at auto supplier & more...
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LGBTQ workers are at the forefront of Chicago’s labor resurgence
“If you grew up queer somewhere that it’s not accepted, you have to learn to stick up for yourself,” Jordan Parshall said. “That’s true for a lot of my queer co-workers. There’s just more of a willingness to speak up for yourself and defend yourself, and you know, advocate for changes if you’re working under unfair conditions.” Read more…
Biden Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su engaged in tense West Coast port contract negotiations
President Biden's Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su is in current communication with labor and port management representatives in an effort to help broker a deal at a time of rising tensions at ports up and down the West Coast. Read more…
Jobs At Stake As California Port Terminal Upgrades To Green Technology
ILWU Canada workers authorize strike in landslide vote, a ‘significant blow’ to West Coast ports
Erie, Pennsylvania now the center of test case for the right to strike
The contract Wabtec and the local signed after the 2019 takeover lets the workers strike over wages, benefits and working conditions once a contract has reached its end. That’s like many if not most other union contracts nationwide.
The difference was that under the prior four years under GE, and the eight decades under GE before that, UE Local 506 had contracts that let it strike over unresolved grievances, too, but only after going through a three-step resolution process. Read more…
UAW organizes supplier of Jeep, Chevy Corvette, Ford Bronco and Mustang roofs
UAW President Shawn Fain commended the nearly 200 new members who fought to organize an automotive parts supplier that makes tops for the Ford Mustang, Ford Bronco, Chevrolet Corvette and Jeep. Read more…
The NLRB General Counsel’s Quest to Expand the Definition of “Inherently Concerted” Activity
Recently, an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ), issued a decision in two cases that create the opportunity for the National Labor Relations Act to have a more expansive view of what constitutes protected activity. Read more…