The following is the Labor Union Report news recap from August 18, 2021. Unions included are the Amalgamated Transit Union, AFGE, AFT, Communications Workers, RWDSU, Teamsters, United Auto Workers, and Vaccine Mandates, as well as, the National Labor Relations Board…
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Protect the Right to Organize Act
- Déjà Vu for US Translators, Interpreters Up Against Potentially Disruptive PRO Act
- PRO Act threatens minority-owned businesses
Amalgamated Transit Union
- Golden Gate Transit investigates threats to ‘exterminate’ bus drivers
- Pension Funds/Delinquent Contributions (2d Cir.)
American Federation of Government Employees
- AFGE Welcomes Federal Directive To Encourage Home Work by Staff
- Federal employees union give their take on the president’s new vaccine guidance
- Angry unions say Biden administration proposal for new agency echoes Trump on civil service
American Federation of Teachers
- Will Virtual Schools Finally Pass the Texas Legislature?
- U.S. Education Secretary Promises A Safe School Reopening If Adults “Do Their Job”
- Biden and CRT—How To Fight Amid Admin’s Mixed Signals
Communications Workers of America
National Labor Relations Board
- NLRB Official Nixes Union’s Bid To Rep Georgetown Workers
- Expansion of Protections and Enforcement Under Biden Administration
- Behind the Biden administration’s insistence on bringing the unions into Amazon
Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union
- Greenlight Bookstores in Brooklyn Unionize
- Recent Union Organizing Efforts and What Employers Can Do
Teamsters
- DOL Panel Revives Ex-Teamsters Official’s Retaliation Claim0
- Judge Orders School Bus Operator To Bargain With Teamsters
United Auto Workers
- Fiat Chrysler sentenced for paying more than $3.5M in bribes to UAW leaders
- Quad Cities-based Deere & Co starting labor negotiations
Vaccine Mandates
- The Curious Incident of the Teachers Unions’ Vaccine Mandate Shift
- Firefighters, Police Push Back Against Vaccine Mandate
- We Should Be Included In Vaccine Mandate
