Daily Labor Union Report for Wednesday, June 20, 2018

The following is Labor Union Report’s news recap from Tuesday, June 19, 2018. Unions included are CWA, Construction Trades, IBEW, Steelworkers, Teamsters, UAW, UFCW, UNITE-HERE, as well as the National Labor Relations Board…

Communications Workers of America

• Verizon Wireless Wins Reversal of Labor Board Decision on Firing
• Florida Times-Union Newsroom Signals Intent To Unionize

Construction Trades

• Union workers and elected officials hold protest in Long Island City after developer hires nonunion labor

Electrical Workers

• NLRB Validates NY Charter Worker’s Union Decert Petition

Machinists

• Boeing refuses to meet with unionized flight line workers

National Labor Relations Board

• DOL Has Been Busy During Trump Administration
  
• NLRB GC Memo and More in Employment Law

Right-To-Work

• Missouri Right to Work vote officially moved to August primaries

SEIU

• Las Vegas tourism workers walk picket line for higher wages
• Amusing: Planned Parenthood goes to war with pro-choice candidate because she wants to unionize abortion clinics

Steelworkers

• USW: Ninth Circuit Appeals Court Affirms that ASARCO Must Pay Copper Price Bonus
• VP Mike Pence plans visit to Nucor steel plant in Auburn
  
• USW hosts BC Federation of Labour at Mount Polley picket line
  

Teamsters

• UPS drivers picket at Bluegrass Parkway location over contract
• UPS employees, local Teamsters Union hold protests

UAW

• Tesla Severance Offer Draws the Line on Worker-Safety Concerns
• Ford’s Factory Floor Exoskeletons are the Real Cyberpunk 2077
• GM’s Lansing Cadillac plant gets $175M to build sedans

UFCW

• UFCW Local 653 Goes Outside the Box to Protect the Pensions of Union Members

UNITE-HERE

• Former Taj Mahal Strip Club Will Reopen Inside Hard Rock Atlantic City