The following is the Labor Union Report news recap from March 6, 2019. Unions included are the Amalgamated Transit Union, AFL-CIO, AFSCME, CWA, IBEW, Machinists, Teamsters, UAW, and Unite-Here, as well as, the National Labor Relations Board…
Amalgamated Transit Union
- Transit union voices SCAT privatization fears
- Public transit access leads to higher employment, lower poverty
- Ski-area project advances; transit workers agree to contract
AFL-CIO
- Bills Would Provide COLAs, Ease Mental Health Compensability Proof
- Related strikes deal with unions days before Hudson Yards opening
- Congress and White House agree on infrastructure, but they need way to pay for it
AFSCME
- Barberton to keep city jail open, rescind order to lay off four full-time firefighters
- Commissioners approve AFSCME contract
- How Gov. Gretchen Whitmer plans to repeal the ‘pension tax’
Communication Workers of America
- Democrats Eye Sprint-T-MOBILE Merger
- Telephone company union workers without a contract, CWA pickets, company responds
IBEW
- 21 part-time workers at Town of Lakeshore on strike
- Identity Politics Is Democrats’ Weapon of Mass Distraction in Redistricting Campaign
National Labor Relations Board
- Republicans and corporate interests pushing anti-union measure
- Non-Union Employees No Longer Have to Pay Lobbying Activity Expenses
- Some Stone Creek Coffee employees want to organize a union
Machinists
- Thousands Of New And Current Everett Boeing Employees To Get Raises
- Boeing Machinists union wins mid-contract pay raise
Teamsters
- Police Dispatchers Ask for Relief from ‘Disgusting’ Working Conditions
- Teamster Dispatchers, Allegiant Air Reach Agreement In Principle
Unite-Here
- City Council hears community letter on Tufts PILOT deal
- Hands Off, Pants On: Chicago Federation of Labor honors Karen Kent
- More than 800 people attend picket for dining workers, strike vote set for March 14
