LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Thursday, May 30, 2024
Top Stories: 2 years later, IHeart Radio workers mull strike; CAP pushes Sectoral Bargaining; SEIU plans one million more members; CUF calls UAW's Fain an 'Election Denier' and 56 more 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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2 Years After Unionizing, Writers At iHeartPodcast Network Look To Strike As Talks On First Contract Drag On
More than two years after unionizing through the WGA East, the writers at iHeartPodcasts still don’t have their first deal with the network. Now, the 100-member unit is prepared to strike if an agreement isn’t reached soon.
Center for American Progress: Sectoral Bargaining Can Support High Union Membership
Sectoral bargaining is a type of collective bargaining that provides union contract coverage for most or all workers in a particular sector. Depending on how sectoral bargaining is structured, it is sometimes known as broad-based, multiemployer, national, or industrywide bargaining.
POLITICO: SEIU’s next million members
In an interview with POLITICO, [SEIU’s new president, April Verrett] underscored the union’s plan to grow its ranks by a million members over the next decade, mirroring an organizing goal of the comparatively much larger AFL-CIO — from which SEIU split nearly 20 years ago and has operated in parallel with since, even as several other unions it defected alongside have since reconciled.
Anti-union group calls UAW president ‘election denier’ over Alabama Mercedes vote in New York Times ad
An anti-union group is slamming United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain in the pages of The New York Times following the union election at Mercedes-Benz’s Alabama plant.
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