LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Friday, April 4, 2025
Featured Stories: Video game strike enters 9th month; AFGE files suit against Trump; Two states consider UE for strikers; NLRB's Wilcox fighting for reinstatement & 52 more articles...
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Video game performers’ strike enters its 9th month
Video game performers took to the picket line Wednesday, one week after their strike entered its ninth month. After months of no picketing at all, the action at Formosa Interactive LLC in Burbank, California was the third picket in the last month, with about 50 people taking part.
In California, Second Union Challenges Trump's Order Ending Labor Contracts
The largest federal union challenged President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking a vast reduction of collective bargaining in the federal sector. American Federation of Government Employees sued the Trump administration Thursday for allegedly running afoul of the US Constitution with its anti-union directive, including violating its free speech and due process rights.
Unemployment benefits for striking workers being considered in Oregon, Washington
Lawmakers in Oregon and Washington are considering whether striking workers should receive unemployment benefits, following recent walkouts by Boeing factory workers, hospital nurses and teachers in the Pacific Northwest that highlighted a new era of American labor activism.
Fired NLRB Member Pushes for Reinstatement
National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox, a Democrat who President Donald Trump removed from the labor dispute panel long before her five-year term was set to expire, wants the U.S. Appeals Court in Washington, D.C. to review a hold on her reinstatement after a lower court ruled that her termination was illegal.
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