LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Friday, August 2, 2024
Top Stories: AZ Supreme Court cuts down union 'release time'; SEIU wants to raise fast-food wages again; Minneapolis park strike over; NEA lockout now into 4th week & 59 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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Arizona Supreme Court strikes down 'release time' for Phoenix workers
Phoenix violated the state constitution by paying city employees nearly half a million dollars to work for their labor union during work hours, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. The decision throws into question the legality of labor union contracts in Phoenix, other cities and the state.
California fast food workers want another minimum wage increase
Four months after California boosted the minimum wage for fast food workers from $16 to $20 an hour, the union representing hundreds of thousands of employees is asking for another raise.
Minneapolis park workers approve new contract after 3-week strike
Minneapolis park workers approved a new contract with the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) Thursday after striking for 22 days.
Nation’s biggest labor union has locked out its employees for 4 weeks now
“I’m really worried because I think they’re creating a precedent that every bad school district and every bad corporation can look to and say, ‘If the largest union in the country can do this to their workers, why can’t we?’” said Justin Conley, a union member.
Striking US video game actors say AI threatens their jobs
Striking video game voice actors and motion-capture performers held their first picket on Thursday in front of Warner Bros. Games and said artificial intelligence was a threat to their professions.
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