LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025
Top Stories: NIH, UAW agree to new contract; CPS on the 'financial brink'; HBR on Labor-Management Partnerships; Gallup: Employee Engagement falls again & dozens 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
Here are today’s Top Stories…
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NIH, Researchers’ Union (UAW) Agree to Contract
he National Institutes of Health and a union representing its postbaccalaureate, graduate student and postdoctoral researchers have agreed to a contract that the union says includes increased pay, benefits and protections. But congressional approval is still required for the financial gains to materialize.
REPORT: Chicago Public Schools on the ‘financial brink’ and state takeover shouldn’t be out of the question
The new Chicago Board of Education being seated Wednesday — the first to have elected members — will stare down a district on the financial brink: an imbalanced budget, rising costs, falling student headcount, a long list of infrastructure needs and steep debt and pension liabilities.
Harvard Business Review: How Labor-Management Partnerships Can Deliver Outsized Results
When most business leaders think about working with unions, they tend to focus exclusively on the collective bargaining agreement as the be-all and end-all of the relationship.
GALLUP: U.S. Employee Engagement Sinks to 10-Year Low
Employee engagement in the U.S. fell to its lowest level in a decade in 2024, with only 31% of employees engaged. This matches the figure last seen in 2014. The percentage of actively disengaged employees, at 17%, also reflects 2014 levels.
