LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Monday, Sept. 25, 2023
Top Stories: WGA gets a deal in Hollywood; Trump and Biden head to Detroit to woo UAW strikers; Biden, Trump head to Detroit; Vegas hospitality workers voting on strike authorization & more...
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[59 total articles today; 24,442 articles posted since January 2022]
Deal! WGA, AMPTP Reach Historic Contract Agreement to End 146-Day Writers Strike
The WGA and major studios and streamers have reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year contract that promises to end the 146-day strike that has taken a heavy toll across the content industry. Read more…
…Writers not authroized to work yet, picketing will be suspended…
SAG-AFTRA Strike Update: Actors Union Ready To Negotiate After Writers Deal
Trump Battles Biden for Union Vote in Strike-Embroiled Michigan
The visits by President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump to Detroit this week give both men a chance to appeal to blue-collar America as the strike by union autoworkers threatens the economy in a battleground state. Read more…
Ford says 'significant gaps' remain in UAW labor contract talks
Ford Motor said on Sunday that despite progress in some areas, it still has "significant gaps to close" on key economic issues before it can reach a new labor agreement with the United Auto Workers union. Read more…
Frustrated by contract negotiations, Vegas hospitality workers consider strike
The contracts for 40,000 union workers at the three major hospitality companies were initially slated to expire in June, when union membership voted to extend the contracts… Read more…
BELOW THE FOLD: 53 MORE NEWS ARTICLES
AI NEWS
The Role of Artificial Intelligence in the Financial Technology Sector
Revolutionary AI Set To Predict Your Future Health With a Single Click
Will Teachers Listen to Feedback From AI? Researchers Are Betting on It
Amazon is investing up to $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic in growing tech battle
Artificial intelligence vs. copyright: Examining high-stakes battle over content
BARGAINING NEWS
Fortune writers hold ‘lunch-out’ over slow pace of bargaining
Will the auto workers’ strike jeopardise Joe Biden’s manufacturing boom?
Culinary Union members to vote on potential strike next week
Teamsters Warehouse Workers Rally at Corporate Offices to Demand Respect
ECONOMIC NEWS
Housing Market Fears Rise For Two Most Overvalued Areas in US
Government shutdown, strikes, student loan payments test economy’s resilience
WSJ: U.S. Economy Could Withstand One Shock, but Four at Once?
EDUCATION UNION NEWS
Education association says most Kentucky teachers close to ‘financial collapse’
Why in the World Is the U.S. Teachers’ Union Boss Visiting Ukraine for ‘Democracy’?
Colorado to give $6.7M in supplies funding to thousands of teachers
Philadelphia House, Senate Delegations join Unite Here in fight for a contract
GENERAL UNION NEWS
Government, eyes new federal silica-dust standard to stem resurgence
Fed-up consumers are increasingly going after food companies for misleading claims
GOVERNMENT UNION NEWS
Two Maine labor groups oppose public utility, citing change in worker rights
AFSCME Oklahoma City members connect laid off Teamsters with 80 job offers
HEALTH CARE UNION NEWS
Kaiser Permanente workers issue notice of strike as contract talks near end
Rochester General nurses, Regional Health officials returning to table
Hospital workers in Bay City, Michigan protest starvation wages
LEGAL NEWS
New York Invention Protection Law Will Not Stop ‘Messy’ Lawsuits
Rhode Island’s Amended Payment of Wages Act Now Imposes Felony Penalties on Employers
Littler: New York City Amends Safe and Sick Time Regulations
NLRB NEWS
ORGANIZING NEWS
POLITICAL NEWS
AOC grilled on her non-union electric vehicle while supporting UAW strike
Biden admin warns there is ‘no special exemption’ when AI denies credit
Pete Buttigieg defended Biden’s plan to join members of the UAW
California bill to have human drivers ride in autonomous trucks is vetoed by Newsom
California Gov. Newsom vetoes union-supported bill to ban heavy-duty driverless trucks
