LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Top Stories: Actors Equity Has A New Deal; Snow Plow Drivers May Strike; NLRB Issues Four Decisions In Five Days; 17K NY RNs May Vote To Strike; 10 Predictions For Labor in 2023; & More...

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TOP STORIES:

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Actors’ Equity ratifies new production contract — marking completion of negotiations with Broadway League

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Snow Plow Drivers Among Teamsters To Authorize Intent To Strike

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NLRB Issues Four Decisions in Five Days

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17,000 New York City nurses begin voting on possible strike

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In these Times: 10 Predictions For Labor in 2023

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Fortune: America’s worker-boss war is just beginning

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NLRB Petitions & Charges for Monday, December 19, 2022

Total Entries* filed Friday, Dec. 16, 2022: 66

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MORE NEWS:

BARGAINING NEWS

• Freight Rail Union President Loses Re-election After Members Were Forced to Accept Contract

• UNM and NMSU graduate workers approve collective bargaining agreements

• On eve of strike, millworkers say: ‘I want more than a t-shirt for feeling essential’

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ECONOMIC NEWS

• Sam Bankman-Fried Has Agreed To Be Extradited

• US Building Permits Collapse In November, Multi-Family Plans Plunge

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GENERAL UNION NEWS

• Private sector employees would be affected if right-to-work repealed in Michigan

• UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman submits official protest challenging voter suppression in elections

• Communications Workers Urge C-SPAN to Remove Allan Block from its Board

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  HEALTH CARE UNION NEWS

• Union workers at Our Lady of Angels Retirement Home protest planned closure

• After a strike ended with a new contract, Saint Vincent nurses say ‘toxicity’ persists 1 year later

• UPMC Altoona reaches tentative agreement with SEIU Healthcare

• Ascension to NYT: We Are Committed to Nurse Workforce Culture

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HR NEWS

• 75% of employees have had an office romance, new poll finds

• HRD: Amazon Drivers Complain About Mandatory Overtime

• Dangers of Mass Layoffs: Protect Your Company From Lawsuits

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LABOR DISPUTES

• University of California Workers on Strike Prepare For Vote on Contracts

• Teamsters union files federal discrimation complaint against MonoSol plant in LaPorte

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LEGAL NEWS

• What’s at stake in the next battle over the FAST Recovery Act

• New Year, New Rules for Employers Doing Business in New York in 2023

• Four-Day Work Week Means Navigating Overtime Pay, Union Talks

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NLRB NEWS

• NLRB’s Vacant GOP Seat Likely to Remain Empty Until Summer

• Advocates: Increase NLRB Funding During Lame-Duck Congress

• NLRB Issues Four Decisions in Five Days

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ORGANIZING NEWS

• Workers at Starbucks-Amazon store reject union membership

• Illinois workers successful in eliminating union representation at their workplace

• The Year Organized Labor Finally Took Root in Big Tech

• Why the UAW is so hungry for a unionization win at Rivian

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POLITICAL NEWS

• Biden ‘Railroaded’ Workers, and Maybe Himself

• How Biden’s FCC nominee became a major campaign target

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STARBUCKS UNION NEWS

• Starbucks union turns up pressure with strikes, gift card boycott

• Starbucks agrees to reinstate fired Richmond union worker with 7 months back pay

• Montclair Starbucks Workers ‘Double Down’ On Fight For Union Contract

• Second San Antonio Starbucks store joins national unfair labor practice strike

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TEACHERS UNION NEWS

• Extend COVID Stipend To Per Diem Workers, Newark Teachers Union Says

• DeSantis’ latest education plan targets teachers’ unions by ending automatic dues in favor of monthly mailed-in checks

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UNION CORRUPTION

• One of Johnny Doc’s closest allies has pleaded guilty weeks before the labor leader’s next trial

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