The following is the Labor Union Report news recap from May 18, 2021. Unions included are the Amalgamated Transit Union, AFT, Communications Workers, Teamsters, United Auto Workers, UFCW, and United Steelworkers, as well as, the National Labor Relations Board…
Protecting the Right to Organize Act
- The PRO Act is not only anti-worker, it’s anti-women
- OOIDA answers PRO Act, AB5 questions on ‘Live From Exit 24’ OOIDA
Amalgamated Transit Union
- Purpose to push passage of 4 voter bills
- Duke employees representing multiple unions express grievances
American Federation of Teachers
- House Republicans Target Teaching of Critical Race Theory
- Schools to Reopen This Fall, AFT President Randi Weingarten Says
- Fresno Unified staff to possibly receive bonuses
Communications Workers of America
- Booksellers Unionize at Los Angeles’s Skylight Books
- Judge orders Parson back to bargaining table for union contracts covering more than 13K state employees
Fraternal Order of Police
- Governor Inslee Signs 12 Police Reform Bills, Local Police Respond
- Police unions plan to update guidance on defending officers
- Lakeland Police Department gets pay raises under new union contract
National Labor Relations Board
- Top Five Labor Law Developments For April 2021
- Employers May Still Rely On Boeing, But For How Long?
- Judge Fletcher Makes Way For 4th Biden Vacancy On 9th Circ.
Teamsters
- Mediation Fails, Strike Imminent at Seattle School District
- U.S. labor leader calls for human drivers in automated vehicles
- Teamsters, Transportation Trades Announce Worker-First AV Legislative Framework
United Auto Workers
- Health-Care Strikes Yield Mixed Returns for Covid-Weary Workers
- All 10 GWC-UAW bargaining committee members resign following months of internal tension
United Food and Commercial Workers
- Macy’s workers in Boston win backpay after the company’s ‘Scan and Pay’ app skirts commissions
- Grocery workers union says employees treated like ‘zeroes’ by Kroger grocery chain
- Workers union applauds Murphy for maintaining mask mandate
United Steelworkers
- Steel industry groups urge Biden to keep tariffs in place after EU truce
- 180 Towanda Steelworkers Strike at Unifrax
