The following is the Labor Union Report news recap from September 23, 2019. Unions included are the AFGE, ATU, AFL-CIO, Communications Workers, Machinists, Nurses’ Unions, Teamsters, Unite-Here, and United Auto Workers, as well as, the National Labor Relations Board…
American Federation of Government Employees
- Perks Group Accepts Government Body Employees into National Savings Program
- Federal Workers Will Flood Washington to Resist Trump’s War on Unions
Amalgamated Transit Union
- Grant Transit Authority makes conditional general manager offer
- Uber, Lyft drivers vow to continue fight for unions despite company pushback
AFL-CIO
- AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Shuler on UAW strike: ‘We’re ready to fight’
- Mexico-Canada Trade Pact’s Fate in House Hangs on Support of Labor
- New Members Selected to the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health
Communications Workers of America
- Court Sidelines FCC’s Effort To Relax Media Ownership Rules
- Federal Appeals Court Quashes FCC Attempt to Weaken Media Ownership Rules
International Association of Machinists
- New Flexible Plant for Classes 6-8 Trucks
- Letters to the Editor: NLRB’s Boeing SC rule doesn’t follow labor law
National Labor Relations Board
- BSO back in business is music to our ears
- Rolling Out the Red Carpet for Labor Pick Scalia
- Grocery Workers Union Calls for a Boycott of Local Supermarket Chain Fred Meyer
Nurses’ Unions
- Nurses staging 1-day strike at 12 hospitals in 3 states
- 2,200 nurses strike at University of Chicago Medical Center
- California’s employment law is rewritten. Many aren’t thrilled
SEIU
- A tip of the hat, a kick in the pants
- Why Workers Stand with Students at UO
- Rally to support Oregon’s public university workers held at PSU
Teamsters
- South Shore trash strike enters its fifth week
- FMCSA extends comment period for proposed rule to amend trucker hours-of-service regs
- Union calls city negotiator a bully in public campaign
UNITE HERE
- Atlantic City change of government petition moving ahead
- Hundreds of Hotel Georgia workers strike following breakdown in negotiations
- J.W. Marriott Santa Monica to Pay Employees Withheld Bonuses in Settlement
United Auto Workers
- Another Former UAW Official Charged For Kickbacks
- GM-UAW contract talks focus on temp workers
- GM temporarily lays off about 730 from St. Catharines as U.S. strike continues
