The following is the Labor Union Report weekend news recap from October 1-3, 2021. Unions included are AFGE, AFSCME, Communications Workers of America, IBEW, SEIU, Teamsters, UAW, UFCW, and United Steelworkers, as well as, the National Labor Relations Board…
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Protecting the Right to Organize Act
American Federation of Government Employees
- Range of penalties possible for employees who don’t comply with federal mandate
- House to vote on stopgap funding bill to avoid federal crisis after Senate passes it
- TSA officers score MSPB appeal rights under new agreement
AFSCME
- County workers protest proposal to eliminate jobs in Auditor’s Office
- Workers at Metro Corrections join calls for director to resign
Communications Workers of America
- AT&T to require vaccines for 90,000 of its union workers
- AT&T requiring frontline union workers to be fully vaccinated
IBEW
- NCUA banned four former credit union employees in September
- Ryan’s Senate Campaign Votes to Organize with IBEW
National Labor Relations Board
- Virus Relief Money Would Fund Vaccine Mandate Work Amid Shutdown
- Amazon settles with two Seattle workers who say they were wrongfully fired for their advocacy
- An NLRB ruling shoves NCAA closer to reality
Service Employees International Union
- Activists call for $20 minimum wage, more community influence on UPMC
- Group home agreement avoids health care worker strike
- SEIU-UHW: Hundreds of Sutter Delta Healthcare Workers to Strike Over Short Staffing, Unfair Labor Practices
Teamsters
- NYC’s Private Garbage Industry Is Getting Overhauled. Can a Notorious Teamsters Local Clean Up Again?
- Human rights commission finds reasonable grounds UPS discriminated against transgender woman
- Judge Needs More To Weigh Joint Liability In Union Work Row
United Auto Workers
- Elon Musk starts beef with Biden, says president is “controlled by unions”
- Deere reaches tentative 6-year labor deal with United Auto Workers union
United Food and Commercial Workers
- Union asks for armed security at Colorado grocery stores
- Kroger reaches deal on new contract with employee union
United Steelworkers
- Union workers from two of Cabell County’s largest employers now on strike
- Labor, environmental groups in new ad press lawmakers for bigger package
