LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Monday, June 17, 2024
Top Stories: Korean companies in U.S. risk unionization; U.S. pushing unions on federal contractors; Nurses union asks travelers not to scab; Jacobin on unions in the South & 61 more news articles...
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If the workers surrender control over working relations to legislative and administrative agents, they put their industrial liberty at the disposal of state agents. — Samuel Gompers, 1915
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Labor Risk Growing for Korean Battery, Car, and Semiconductor Companies in U.S.
Ahead of the US presidential election to be held later this year, US labor unions are increasingly pressuring Korean battery, automobile, and semiconductor companies in the United States.
WSJ: Pushing Unions on a Federal Contractor
The contractor that runs call centers for Medicare, as well as the federal ObamaCare marketplace, isn’t even two years into a nine-year deal, so why is the Department of Health and Human Services accepting new proposals this week? The answer seems to be that the Biden Administration wants to push more than 10,000 workers into a union.
Providence claims nurses union is asking travel nurses to turn down contracts during strike
Ahead of a three-day nurses strike involving more than 3,000 nurses at six Providence hospitals across the state of Oregon, it appears tensions could not be higher.
Jacobin: Unions Must Seize the Moment to Organize the South
After a victory in Tennessee and a loss in Alabama, the UAW is pressing onward in its fight to organize the notoriously anti-union South. The fate of Southern workers — and all workers — depends on the movement’s willingness to think big.
'We've finally reached a fever pitch.' Steamship union in contract negotiations
The Woods Hole, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority and the union that represents the ferry service workers, Teamsters Local 59, are engaged in critical contract negotiations concerning wages and scheduling as the current agreement approaches its July 26 expiration date.
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