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2023 Will See High Profile Contract Negotiations
The ‘Big Three’ automakers, Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler LLC will open contract negotiations in 2023. The negotiated contracts will cover some 120,000 workers. With new leadership at the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the 327,000 UPS employees could see...
Protected: 2023 Will See High Profile Contract Negotiations
Young Workers Are Leading the Efforts to Unionize
At last count, employees at some 200 Starbucks locations around the country have initiated union organizing drives. In Staten Island, workers at the New York Amazon fulfillment center voted union yes in an historic drive to unionize the notoriously anti-union online...
Protected: Young Workers Are Leading the Efforts to Unionize
Abruzzo Memo Seeks to Rein In Captive Audience Meetings
In an April 7 memo, NLRB Chief Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo, called for a reversal of the 1948 decision that mandatory meetings concerning employee’s statutory labor rights do not violate federal law. Abruzzo asked National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to hold that...
