LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Monday, Sept. 30, 2024
Today's Top Stories: Longshoremen set to strike at midnight; California bans 'captive audience' meetings; Unions organize to stop Trump in Swing States; a UAW picketer killed & more...
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Here are today’s Top Stories…
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US Eastern Ports Prepare to Close With Labor Talks Stalled
Key industry and government officials are urging US dockworkers and their employers to avoid a strike at East and Gulf coast ports this week, though many facilities are already bracing for a shutdown.
Truckers, rails scramble to move billions in cargo before midnight shutdown...
Biden refuses to intervene: "It's collective bargaining. I don't believe in Taft-Hartley."
WATCH: U.S. Commerce Secretary on Port Strike:—”I have not been very focused on that.”
Gov. Gavin Newsom signs California bill banning ‘captive audience,’ anti-union work meetings
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday afternoon signed a bill that will prevent businesses from requiring employees to attend “captive audience” meetings, or mandatory workplace meetings with religious with political messaging — particularly, anti-union messaging.
In swing states that once went for Trump, unions organize to prevent a repeat
Many labor union leaders say they’re working as hard as they ever have to oppose Trump and elect Vice President Kamala Harris. The AFL-CIO, a federation of 60 unions that range from Major League Baseball players to firefighters to workers in the food industry, has endorsed Harris.
A growing share of rank-and-file union members, however, have been less likely to follow their leadership — some of them among Trump’s base.
24-year-old man killed when truck crashes into Eaton Aerospace picket line
Witnesses tell 6 News a truck crashed into a crowd of picketing UAW Local 475 Eaton Aerospace workers Saturday night, killing at least one and sending several others to the hospital.
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