The following is the Labor Union Report news recap from February 5, 2020. Unions included are the AFL-CIO, AFSCME, Communications Workers, FOP, Operating Engineers, SEIU, Teamsters, UFCW, UAW and United Steelworkers, as well as, the National Labor Relations Board…
AFL-CIO
- Trump acquitted on all charges in Senate impeachment trial
- DOL Shrinks Joint Employer Liability
- R.I. Senate passes $1 rise in minimum wage
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
- More workers go union at Cascadia Behavioral Health
- Lawmakers seek to place nation’s first job-killing amendment in Illinois Constitution
- UC-AFT Holds Rally for Improved Pay and Job Security for Lecturers
Communications Workers of America
- Overwhelming Approval For Local 1180 Pact
- Hawaiian Airlines Flight Attendants Picket at Big Island Airports
- AT&T Keeps Firing Employees Despite Claims The Trump Tax Cut Would Boost Job Growth
Fraternal Order of Police
- Radnor approves new contract with police union
- FOP raises concerns over officer shortage in Nashville
National Labor Relations Board
- DC Circuit Attacks NLRB Religious School Power Grab
- CNN pays $76 million to settle union-busting complaint
- D.C. Circuit Rejects NLRB’s Attempt To Certify Union Vote By University Adjunct Faculty
Operating Engineers
- Richter slams IUOE, tells Gibbs to return labor money
- Union hits town, village with unfair labor charge over health insurancer
- TriMet awards transit project to union-signatory minority contractor
Service Employees (SEIU)
- Hospital Workers Strike; 7800 say “Patients before profits!”
- Proposed $13 minimum wage ballot issue clears Ohio panel
- 425 Kaiser Permanente optical workers change unions
Teamsters
- Teamsters Want Injunction Lifted in California Trucking Battle
- CVS Claims Years Of Overworking And Undervaluing Pharmacists Is Justifiable
UFCW
- In a first, Instacart employees in Illinois vote to unionize
- Virginia’s ‘Right to Work’ status goes before House Committee
- Progress Remains Slow in Contract Negotiations with Giant & Safeway
United Auto Workers
- GM Makes Money, But Strike Is Costly
- Ford Touts ‘Strategic Progress’ But Stock Falls 9%
- GM churns out profit in 2019 despite strike and slumping sales
United Steelworkers
- Union presses Alcoa over termination of life insurance benefits
- Amazon Can’t Revive Pullman’s Middle Class
- Exxon’s Baytown union workers reject contract offer
