In an opening shot of the new round of Republican attacks on workers and their unions, the Utah governor has signed into law a measure banning the state from engaging in collective bargaining with unions representing the state’s public workers. The law, which goes into effect July 1, is a harbinger of the broader attack […]
Costco workers, represented by the Teamsters union voted Jan. 19 to authorize a strike beginning Feb 1 if they do not have a contract by then. The union represents over 18,000 Costco workers around the country. Eighty-five percent of the union membership at Costco stores nationwide voted for the strike, according to the union. “Our […]
Labor Notes, an organization dedicated to the growth of the labor movement is holding a special on line workshop Jan. 6 to discuss what unions can do to protect immigrant fellow workers and union members from the threatened attacks by the incoming Trump administration. The Labor Notes call to action, as posted on their website, […]
PITTSBURGH NEWSPAPER WORKERS BEGIN THIRD YEAR ON STRIKE Communication Workers of America strikers at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette began their third year of picketing the newspaper this past October. It is one of the longest strikes in America today. Members of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh-CWA walked out two years ago after the paper unilaterally cut […]
In a significant judicial victory, a judge in Wisconsin state court threw out a 2011 state law that had deprived public workers of the right to collective bargaining. The law, pushed through the legislature by the anti-labor governor at the time, Scott Walker, was enacted after Republicans won control the executive and legislative branches of […]
President-elect Donald Trump’s designated appointment of Congresswoman Lori Michelle Chavez-DeRemer as Secretary of Labor in his incoming administration has been hailed in some quarters as an act friendly to labor. Others, however, were saying, “not so fast.” Her labor-friendly bona fides come from the fact that she was only one of three Republicans in the […]
by Paul Becker Labor leaders around the country are bracing for the onslaught against unions that they see coming in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential elections. Speaking of the election results, Lee Saunders, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, said, “This is going to impact the […]
Since 2021, the year President Biden took office, the number of union election petitions filed with the National Labor Relations Board has skyrocketed, the board recently reported. In the last year alone, the requests have jumped 29 percent from nearly 2,600 to nearly 3,600. Under the law, if 30 percent of the workers in a […]
A recent NLRB ruling could have a major beneficial effect for Amazon drivers. Millions of Americans today are ordering merchandise from Amazon, changing the manner of shopping for a large section of the American people as trucks with the bent arrow are a ubiquitous presence in virtually every neighborhood. But even as they receive their […]
DOCK WORKERS SUSPEND STRIKE After striking for just a few days, dock workers at Atlantic and Gulf ports suspended their strike action until the end of the year unless negotiations between their union, the International Longshoreman’s Association, and the US Maritime Alliance, representing the shipping industry, reach a contract by then. (See item on Labor […]
