LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Top Stories: Wonderful Co. challenges Cali's card-check law; NLRB staffing woes; ILA, shippers ready to bargain; Nurses oust union; Jenner sisters cross picket line & 58 more news articles
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Wonderful Co. sues to halt California card-check law that made it easier to unionize farmworkers
The Wonderful Co. is escalating its battle against unionization of its job sites, looking to halt a new state law intended to streamline the farmworker unionization process, two months after the United Farm Workers utilized the provision to become the collective bargaining representative for employees of the company's massive grapevine nursery in Kern County.
NLRB ‘doing more with less’ between growing caseload, stagnating staffing
The National Labor Relations Board is at a crossroads: Within the same moment, the agency is trying to manage a growing caseload, while also dealing with relatively low staffing numbers.
ILA and Employers Confident as Master Labor Contract Talks Set to Begin
The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) issued the first joint statement on the upcoming contract negotiations expressing confidence that the process is proceeding on plan.
Valley Regional Medical Center nurses oust union reps
Nurses at Valley Regional Medical Center last week voted to remove National Nurses United as their exclusive union representative by a margin of 96 to 62, according to the VRMC news release.
Famed sisters Kendall and Kylie Jenner cross picket line at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas
Famed sisters, Kylie Jenner and Kendall Jenner were photographed at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas on Friday while hotel workers were on strike outside of the property demanding a new contract.
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