The following is the Labor Union Report news recap from August 20, 2019. Unions included are the AFGE, AFSCME, Communications Workers, FOP, IBEW, Nurses’ Unions, SEIU, United Autoworkers, United Mine Workers, and USW, as well as, the National Labor Relations Board…
American Federation of Government Employees
- EEOC offering training for federal employees to file online grievances
- USDA shrinks buyout packages for employees who won’t relocate to Kansas City
- CDC pays $11 million settlement to employees over wage dispute
AFSCME
- AFSCME union executive director official suspended
- 1st Circ. Backs Union In Deactivation Fight Over Free Speech
- PAC money flowed to DNC ahead of August meeting
Communications Workers of America
- On Trial in a Language You Don’t Speak
- Communications Workers of America and CenturyLink ink contract extension
Fraternal Order of Police
- More police officers committing suicide in the United States
- New York Police Department fires officer in Eric Garner case
- FOP members to take lessons from national conference in wake of Dayton shooting
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
National Labor Relations Board
- Spot Coffee workers vote to form a union
- Fuyao reacts to ‘American Factory’
- SCOTUS Epic Systems on Arbitration Broadly Interpreted by NLRB
Nurses’ Unions
- Maternity nurses spar with Munson over shift schedules
- Nurses ‘will have to work a shift for free every month’ under cost cutting proposals
- University of Iowa nurses, others sue regents for ‘illegal’ pay practices
SEIU
- SEIU president Mary Kay Henry to launch ‘Unions for All’ in Milwaukee
- SEIU declares impasse in labor contract negotiations
- Civil rights activist Dolores Huerta, 89, is arrested once again
United Auto Workers
- UAW Corruption Probe Targets Union’s GM Department, Turns up a Warehouse of Watches
- UAW Plans Strike Vote For Next Week Amid GM Discussions
United Mine Workers
- Bernie Sanders sends pizza to miners blocking coal train
- Six Times Biden Claimed Life Events That Never Happened
United Steelworkers
- Michelin Workers in 2 States Ratify New Contrac
- US Steel to lay off hundreds of workers in Michigan, citing ‘market conditions’
- Nearly 300 workers laid off at South Philadelphia refinery that exploded, union says
