LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Monday, November 14, 2022
Top Stories: Striking Union Returns To Bargaining Table With Newspaper; Non-Union Contractors Refuse to Bid On 'Discriminatory' PLA Project; Amazon To Lay Off; NLRB Union Pleads For Funding & More...
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TOP STORIES:
1. Striking Post-Gazette union workers set to have first bargaining session with company
2. Nonunion contractors vow to bow out of new stadium project due to labor agreement
...Contractors "won’t bid on the PLAs because of the discrimination that’s involved with PLAs"...
3. NYT: Amazon Is Said to Plan to Lay Off Thousands of Employees
4. NLRB union and appointees continue quest for funding boost
...“We have a huge target on our backs”...
NLRB Petitions & Charges for Friday, November 11, 2022
Total Entries filed Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022: 17
MORE NEWS:
BARGAINING NEWS
Smith dining workers, housekeepers to get pay hikes with 3-year deal
Anchorage School District Bails Out Underfunded Teamster Pension Plan, With No Accountability
ECONOMIC NEWS
Pilots shortage grounds planes, dampens business opportunities
GENERAL UNION NEWS
Sag-Aftra Members Against Vax Mandates Speak and Says “End The Mandates Now”
Campus workers discuss mistreatment, poor conditions at James Allen Center
Local Kroger Store to Remain Open Despite Closure Announcement
Transportation Workers Union Demand Stricter Penalties for Unruly Passengers
GOVERNMENT UNION NEWS
Supermajority of TAM workers organize for union representation
Police union revisits city’s proposal to expand civilian oversight as clock ticks down
City Leaders to Vote On Receiving A Pension After Only 8 Years
HEALTH CARE UNION NEWS
Vaccine Propaganda Plan Exposed, Organized Labor Leaders Who Are “tools” of HHS
Butler Hospital workers picket over ARPA funds, staffing levels
Healthcare workers picket for safe staffing at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Red Bluff...Pickets Nov. 10 for fair contracts at Burien, Enumclaw hospitals...
The Staffing Problem at Providence Everett Continues to Worsen
HR NEWS
Leading through layoffs: How to manage workers on their way out — and those who stay
Staffing pinch? Universities say retirement plan is top benefit in attracting talent
How to help employees navigate the impact of inflation during open enrollment
Evil HR Lady: Is LinkedIn’s New Internal Hiring Tool a Solution to the Wrong Problem?
LABOR DISPUTES
In largest strike of 2022, About 48K California academic workers walk off job
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette terminates health care coverage for striking employees, union says
LEGAL NEWS
Did Twitter’s recent layoffs violate federal employment AND labor law?
Supreme Court’s Sotomayor Denies NYC Workers’ Bid To Halt Vax Mandate
2022 Midterm Elections Early Results: Control of Congress, Minimum Wage, and Legalized Marijuana
NLRB NEWS
In a critical year for labor unions, NLRB faces ‘worst case scenario’
Will the NLRB enforce labor protections in the marijuana industry?
ORGANIZING NEWS
Lexington Co-Op Not Voluntarily Recognizing Union, Wants Staff to Vote
Immigrant Workers Say Chipotle Is Firing Them for Organizing
Workers at MOM’s Organic Market in Timonium vote to unionize in growing trend
POLITICAL NEWS
Many of WV Legislature’s most vocal miner health and safety proponents lost state legislative races
The Democrats Lost Some Working-Class Support in the Midterms
Coal miners fire back at Joe Biden for plans to shut down coal mines
Unionizing Is Now on Track to Be a Constitutional Right in Illinois. Here’s How It Happened.
STARBUCKS UNION NEWS
TEACHERS UNION NEWS
Central Alabama Teacher’s Union President Reacts to Failing Schools List
Parental-Rights Candidates Won School Board Races Nationwide
