The following is the Labor Union Report news recap from September 13-15, 2019. Unions included are the AFL-CIO, AFSCME, Communications Workers, AFT, Operating Engineers, SEIU, Teamsters, Unite-Here, United Auto Workers, UFCW, and UMWA, as well as, the National Labor Relations Board…
AFL-CIO
- Fred Meyer flash mob demands equal pay, goes viral
- Low-wage workers to discuss strategies at summit in NC
AFSCME
- Pritzker overpaid AFSCME by $3.6 billion
- Disability center closure marks end of era, start of battle
- Central Pennsylvania Workers and Their Unions Call For Action on Worker Safety and Health
Communications Workers of America
American Federation of Teachers
- There’s one issue that Democrats seem to agree on: Paying teachers
- Cisneros and others introduce Teacher Diversity and Retention Act
National Labor Relations Board
- Kaiser healthcare workers plan for nation’s largest strike since 1997
- Baltimore Symphony Musicians perform sans contract
- California PAGA May Not Be used to Recover Unpaid Wages
Operating Engineers
- Napa’s Queen of the Valley hospital and engineers end brief strike
- The proposed PennEast Pipeline presents an age-old conflict
SEIU
- University workers to cast strike vote Monday
- Minnesota labor unions divided over the Green New Deal
- Child Care Workers Have Been Fighting For The Right To Bargain For Years
Teamsters
- East Coast strike delays some waste pickup in Orange County
- Teamsters refusing to transport GM vehicles in solidarity with UAW
UNITE HERE
- Fiesta Henderson workers vote to unionize, seventh Station Casinos property to do so
- Houston-area airport workers, union protest United Airlines, demand $15 an hour
United Auto Workers
- Feds Implicating UAW Chief Injects Crucial GM Talks With Chaos
- Midnight Strike Deadline Looms as UAW-GM Contract Talks Continue
- UAW Set for Walkout at Midnight Sunday
United Food and Commercial Workers
- Fred Meyer flash mob demands equal pay, goes viral
- The next wave of labor unrest could be in grocery stores
- 47,000 grocery workers in California avert a strike with new contracts
United Mine Workers
- Survey Finds 53 Percent of Likely Voters Oppose Dems’ Union Pension Bailout
- Proposed Bailout of Failing Union Pension Funds Won’t Work
- Coal industry’s decline is inexorable, probably irreversible
