The following is the Labor Union Report weekend news recap from May 22-25, 2020. Unions included are the Amalgamated Transit Union, AFGE, AFSCME, Communications Workers, IBEW, RWDSU, SEIU, Teamsters, Unite-Here, and United Steelworkers, as well as, the National Labor Relations Board…
Amalgamated Transit Union
- BARTA rallies for safer conditions and more pay
- Class Struggle and Social Protest in the Coronavirus Pandemic
- Bus workers stage ‘informational picket’ demanding protections
American Federation of Government Employees
- Local group fights for PPE and proper protocols at VA hospital
- Employees Concerned After Agency Threatens Furloughs
- Social Security Continues to Drag Its Feet on Paid Sick Leave
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
- The Court Should Fix This Gap in Free-Speech Law
- Union workers, health administrator at odds over COVID sick time
- In Appeal to Board of Public Works, State Workers Ask, ‘Where Are the Tests?’
Communications Workers of America
- Call-Center Workers Are Essential Responders
- ABB union employees seeking hazard pay
- Glitch lays off ‘substantial number of employees’
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
- Treasury OKs Benefits Cuts for Ohio, NY Union Pensions
- IBEW’s Barry, ECAO’s Aitken urge members to stay safe
- 2 multiemployer pension funds get permission to reduce benefits
National Labor Relations Board
- Public Info Sessions on New Union Election Rules
- NLRB revives companies’ confidentiality, cell phone rules struck down by judges
- Labor Board Temporarily Changes Notice Posting Requirement Due To Pandemic
Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union
- Could coronavirus help Amazon workers unionize?
- Macy’s Workers in Four Stores to Negotiate New Contract
Service Employees International Union
- Philadelphia Museum of Art Workers Seek to Unionize
- Nurses look for solution to unsafe COVID working conditions
- Inquiry into coronavirus nursing home deaths needs to include discussion of workers and race
Teamsters
- UPS Facility In Tucson Faces Coronavirus Outbreak
- Amazon shareholder meeting: Investors want worker safety disclosures
- YRCW Teamsters members still getting benefits in 8-week extension
Unite-Here
- Atlantic City’s Streak of Bad Luck
- Omni hotel workers to lose subsidized health care
- Province provides support for unemployed hospitality workers
United Steelworkers
- Flexsteel production workers fight for help as plant shuts down
- Essentia Health announces 900 more layoffs
- Bayou Steel workers sue shuttered plant’s hedge fund owner for back pay
