LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Wednesday, December 27, 2023
Top Stories: Game cafe workers unionize; UFCW targets Missouri cannabis workers; Unions condemn Israel; Shawn Fain, CNN's Labor Person of the Year & more...
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Board Game Cafe Workers Went on a Quest for a Union and Won
“There is not a group of people better at organizing than a bunch of nerds,” said a worker at one of New York City’s cafes catering to the Dungeons & Dragons crowd. Read more…
UFCW launches massive cannabis organizing campaign in Eastern Missouri
With a 25-to-0 vote to join United Food and Commercial Workers Local 655 by employees at the High Profile cannabis dispensary here, the campaign by Local 655 to bring union wages and benefits to cannabis workers throughout the eastern half of Missouri is well on its way, says Local 655 President David Cook. Read more…
Truthout: Unions Increasingly Condemn Israeli Occupation and Call for Gaza Ceasefire
As ceasefire demands from teachers to Starbucks workers are published across the country and a major march led in part by union organizers in New York called on members of Congress to stop taking campaign cash from pro-Israel lobbyists, Democracy Now! speaks with longtime trade unionist Bill Fletcher and labor historian Jeff Schuhrke about the United States labor movement’s history with Israel and Palestine, Biden’s Zionism clashing with his union support, and the labor movement’s “tailspin” about how to respond to the war on Gaza. Read more…
Shawn Fain, CNN Business’ labor leader of the year, plans to keep automakers sweating
The longest US auto strike this century is over after a pretty clear win for the United Auto Workers union at all three unionized automakers. But don’t think the union is moving to repair relations between labor and management the way it has after past strikes. Read more…