LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Wednesday, May 29, 2024
Top Stories: The Teamsters' contract campaign at Coke and Pepsi; Boeing reaches a TA with firefighters; Nurses may strike in NJ; Feds: Boilermakers' president stole millions & 54 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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TDU: How Coke and Pepsi Teamsters Won With Contract Campaigns
Local 135 Teamsters at Coca-Cola and Pepsi won record contracts after organizing contract campaigns that built the union’s bargaining power by involving and mobilizing members.
Boeing, firefighters union reach tentative contract deal
Boeing and a union representing about 125 of its firefighters said Wednesday they had reached a tentative contract deal, the planemaker and union said in a joint statement.
Thousands of nurses could strike in New Jersey
According to the Health Professionals and Allied Employees union (HPAE), nurses overwhelmingly approved a strike authorization at Englewood Health, Hackensack Meridian Palisades Medical Center in North Bergen and Cooper University Health Care in Camden.
Boilermakers’ ousted president stole millions from KC-based union, court filing alleges
The former longtime president of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers allegedly converted millions of dollars of union funds for personal use, misappropriating the money to support a lavish lifestyle and keep family members on the payroll, according to court documents filed last week in a federal criminal case involving another top union official.
Boston Globe Editorial Board: Project labor agreements are bad policy
It’s one of the most predictable of economic impulses. Facing competitive pressure? Then try to limit the competition.
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