LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Friday, August 5, 2022

Top Stories: Mine Workers Order To Pay $13 Million Over Strike; Staten Island Ferry Workers No Show; Reuters Reporters Go On Strike & More...

TOP STORIES:

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1. NLRB: United Mine Workers must pay Alabama coal company over $13M for strike-related costs…

…UMWA: ‘Outrageous’…’a slap in the face’…

…IFPTE: ‘Region 10 NLRB Goes Rogue’…

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2. Staten Island Ferry Workers No-Show Over Labor Dispute — and Commuters Pay the Price with Delays

...NYC Staten Island Ferry service cut down during labor dispute...

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3. Reuters journalists go on 24-hour strike over contract negotiations

…First Time in Decades…

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Total Entries: 67

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MORE NEWS:

BARGAINING NEWS

• The Florida Orchestra and musicians union ratify new contract 12% raise over three years

• UPS Drivers Will Be Ready To Strike in 2023 if Contract Negotiations Break Down

• Biden’s “emergency board” delays potential strike as rail workers stand up for their rights

• UFCW negotiates dues-paying “flex workers” into contracts

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ECONOMIC NEWS

• Payrolls increased 528,000 in July, much better than expected

• Economic Policy Institute: Rising Inflation is a Global Problem

• Remarks by President Biden in Roundtable with Business and Labor Leaders on the Inflation Reduction Act

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GENERAL UNION NEWS

• Pass the Inflation Reduction Act: What Working People Are Doing This Week

• Essential Workers Still Impacted by COVID-19

• UFCW: COVID-19 threat ever-present for frontline workers

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GOVERNMENT UNION NEWS

• Five-Year Contract Ratified with Largest State Union

• How to Make Official Time Even Worse: AFSCME Wants to Force Members And Taxpayers Pay For it

• Fed worker union backs legal cannabis & end to tests

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HEALTH CARE UNION NEWS

• Stanford Health Care Threatened Staff’s Jobs, Teamsters Allege

• Eastern Maine Medical Center mechanics seek to join union

• Michigan Medicine workers call for joint struggle against hospital management and nurses’ union bureaucracy

• Health giant Kaiser faces strike by mental health care workers

• Kaweah Health builds program to ease nursing shortage

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HR NEWS

• Get ahead of the problem: establish a proactive management strategy

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LABOR DISPUTES

• IAM San Diego Auto Technicians are Determined to Win

• Reuters US Reporters Are Striking for First Time in Decades

• Vice: Freight Rail Workers Voted to Strike. Here’s Why They Can’t (Yet)

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LEGAL NEWS

• Jiffy Lube Reaches $2 Million Agreement in No-Poach Claim

• Fisher Phillips: The Top 14 Workplace Law Stories from July 2022

• Fired for Sending Graphic Videos to Union Prez: Jury awards worker $5.1M

• JD Supra: The Seventh Circuit Affirms Dismissal of the HUMIRA Antitrust Litigation

• HHS, DOL, and Treasury Give Employer-Sponsored Health Plans Another Warning on Providing Contraceptive Coverage

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ORGANIZING NEWS

• Activision Blizzard accused of fighting against Albany union

• The U.S’s Legislative Workers Are Uniting!

• What happened to the Apple store union campaign?

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POLITICAL NEWS

• 3 GOP lawmakers counter Biden’s student-loan-forgiveness plans with a bill help borrowers ‘most in need’

• Delphi pension bill stumbles in Senate

• AFSCME Spends Members’ Dues on Progressive Politics

• Biden to meet CEOs of GM, Carrier, Cummins on Drug, Tax Bill

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STARBUCKS UNION NEWS

• Starbucks CEO Vows To Appeal Dismissal Of Its Case Against Arizona Union Organizers

• Are Franchises Next for a Starbucks-Style Union Push?

• Vice: Starbucks Is Firing a Huge Number of Pro-Union Workers

• Starbucks union demands pay hikes, benefits extend to unionized workers

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TEACHERS UNION NEWS

• Randi Weingarten blasts ‘right-wing extremists’ for fighting ‘culture wars’ in conference speech

• Amid contract dispute, Columbus schools file labor complaint against teachers union

• Department of Education among participants in Americans for Prosperity ‘school choice’ fair

• Veterans without degrees can now become teachers under new FL program

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