BlueCollarWriter Labor News Update
Labor News Update - 03/31/2023
Labor News
Know Your Rights: What Working People Are Doing This Week https://aflcio.org/2023/3/30/know-your-rights-what-working-people-are-doing-week
Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Washington State AFL-CIO President Sims Appears on PBS https://aflcio.org/2023/3/30/service-solidarity-spotlight-washington-state-afl-cio-president-sims-appears-pbs
CWA Union Worker Power Update
https://cwa-union.org/news/worker-power-update-69
Improved pay and housing headline the first ever minor league union CBA https://www.blessyouboys.com/2023/3/31/23302711/baseball-union-minor-leagues-cba-salary-rosters
Striking Teamsters at Sysco in Indianapolis and Louisville, Ky., extended their strike to California today. Nearly 1,000 members are now on the picket line nationwide as members of Teamsters Locals 495, 630, and 848 began honoring the strike in Southern California this afternoon, with more extensions expected to go up as early as tonight.
https://www.streetinsider.com/dr/news.php?id=21445335&gfv=1
Photo: Hey Sysco, just a reminder. When you hire scab drivers, you get scab work quality.
Teamsters and their allies were on Capitol Hill last week to support the re-introduction of the American Families United Act, which would re-unite Teamsters Local 728 Member Jason Rochester with his wife, Cecilia Gonzalez-Carmona, who is currently stranded in Mexico.
https://teamster.org/2023/03/teamsters-fight-to-re-unite-ups-worker-with-his-wife/
KANSAS RED CROSS WORKERS JOIN TEAMSTERS
https://www.investorsobserver.com/news/qm-pr/6721810564365817
Teamsters Sysco food service drivers and workers on strike in Bloomington, Indiana
UFCW selects Triumph Foods to host OSHA, highlight safety program, best practices
Queer and trans workers have long been at the frontlines of solidarity, bridging identities and social movements. In this moving webinar, held online on March 22, we heard powerful highlights from LGBTQIA+ labor history (some illustrated in comics), and heard from workers organizing unions today at Howard Brown Health and Google about how they're building people power against capitalism—and why organizing your workplace is the best way to make friends in your thirties!
Jorts The Cat Wants You To Fight Back
https://inthesetimes.com/article/jorts-the-cat-wants-you-to-fight-back
Starbucks Founder Howard Shultz’s Congressional Testimony: Lies Detected
https://aflcio.org/2023/3/28/starbucks-founder-howard-shultzs-congressional-testimony-lies-detected
The Fed's Fight Against Inflation Could Cost Black Workers The Most
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/fighting-inflation-could-hurt-black-workers/
Workers At Peggy Notebaert Nature
Museum, Chicago's Oldest Museum, Are Voting To Unionize
Union chapter at Eastern Illinois University prepares for possible strike starting next Week
Chicago REI workers file for union election https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-rei-chicago-union-filing-20230331-kwrrnegd5zgktgzpikewjgamei-story.html
Tenants of America's Biggest Landlord Form Union to Fight Evictions, Rent Hikes
https://www.vice.com/en/article/epvdzw/blackstone-tenants-union-san-diego-evictions-rent
NRLB Decisions & Summaries
#UnionBustingIsDisgusting
Elon Musk’s 2018 tweet on Tesla union campaign illegal, US court rules
https://kfgo.com/2023/03/31/elon-musks-2018-tweet-on-tesla-union-campaign-illegal-us-court-rules/
Starbucks Illegally Withheld Raises & Tips from Union Workers, NLRB Says
https://perfectunion.us/starbucks-nlrb-credit-card-tip-complaint/
9th Circ. Upholds Teamsters' Arbitration Win Against Allegiant
Rehab Center Tells DC Circ. It Didn't Illegally Monitor Workers
A new effort launched this week by the National Labor Relations Board aims to educate workers on their rights under the National Labor Relations Act.
The independent federal agency introduced the “Know Your Rights” card series on Tuesday.
Update: NLRB General Counsel Issues Memo to Regions Advising on Severance Agreements and Beyond
Politics & Legislation
Kentucky: The authoritarian Republican regime in Frankfort
https://forwardky.com/the-authoritarian-republican-regime-in-frankfort/
Kentucky: Leges override all Beshear vetoes, incl anti-trans bill
https://forwardky.com/leges-override-all-beshear-vetoes-incl-anti-trans-bill/
Kentucky: Medical marijuana bill passes in Kentucky, governor expected to sign https://www.wlky.com/article/medical-marijuana-kentucky-legislature-bill-law/43465829
The Chicago Mayoral Race Is High Stakes for Working People
https://inthesetimes.com/article/chicago-mayor-paul-vallas-brandon-johnson-working-people
Hochul broke her promise, but home care advocates are still fighting to make sure New York "takes care of the people who take care of people."
https://inthesetimes.com/article/how-kathy-hochul-abandoned-home-care-workers
In Montana, an Avalanche of Wealth Is Displacing Workers
https://inthesetimes.com/article/displaced-montana-workers-luxury-housing-2
Union workers carried the load during the pandemic, now ask for Maine lawmakers to give them relief
Lawmakers to reintroduce federal nurse staffing ratio bill
https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/federal-nurse-staffing-ratios-bill-reintroduced/646426/
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