BlueCollarWriter Labor News Update
Labor News Update - 08/7/2023
#HotLaborSummer Strike Coverage
Striking writers met with Hollywood studios for the first time in months https://bit.ly/3Qy9bJ7
Writers' Strike to Continue Indefinitely After Stalled Negotiations https://bit.ly/47lO7Lz
Writers Blast Latest AMPTP Efforts to Resume Negotiations: “Insulting and Out-of-Touch” https://bit.ly/44WJJBg
SAG-AFTRA Foundation call to help thousands of performers in crisis answered by some of the industries highest earning actors donating millions for emergency aid https://bit.ly/3Qu1ZgN
LA school union members join SAG-AFTRA, WGA picket line https://bit.ly/3YEiNnH
Teamsters Union striking against Roanoke Concrete https://bit.ly/3s15uBv
Some of California’s best-paid public employees say they’re ready to strike. Here’s why https://bit.ly/43YNnt7
Who’s on strike and who’s close? Labor unions are flexing https://bit.ly/3Yqg3Kv
Termination risks, collecting unemployment: A look at workers rights amid a 'summer of strikes' https://cnb.cx/43X3RBY
Is 2023 the summer of strikes for US workers? Here’s what the data says.
About 650,000 workers were expected to strike or are on strike this summer. How do those numbers compare to pre-pandemic years? https://bit.ly/3s20X1B
Labor News
Grindr retaliated against employees for trying to unionize by forcing them back to the office, labor complaint alleges https://bit.ly/3KvrDhD
NYCHA workers get union status, but lose remote-work option https://bit.ly/3YqkFjz
UAW President Fain Fighting for More Than Money — “Our members are working 60, 70, even 80 hours a week just to make ends meet – that’s not a living,” UAW President Shawn Fain says. “That's barely surviving, and it needs to stop.” https://bit.ly/3s2aNR1
UAW seeks massive contract gains as automakes enter the EV era https://nyti.ms/47jbYvw
MBTA reaches deal with largest union https://bit.ly/3qtaUEF
Some Philly Dunkin’ workers want to unionize — A group of 46 employees who work at a manufacturing center for Northeast Donut Shops Management Corporation filed paperwork to join the United Food and Commercial Workers. https://bit.ly/3OoaZBE
When M.D.s Go Union: The wave of professionals who are joining unions has now reached the ranks of physicians https://bit.ly/45gZC5j
CEO pay averaged $16.7 million last year at S&P 500 companies, a decline https://reut.rs/458Gl62
Wage Gains at UPS Have Amazon Workers Demanding More https://bit.ly/43TWX0c
Two weeks added for more contract talks between Frontier and CWA employees https://bit.ly/3KwKyZs
NLRB News, Updates & Summaries
Summary of NLRB Decisions for Week of July 24 - 28, 2023 https://bit.ly/3DJfou0
Google illegally cut contract staff who worked on AI, union alleges https://bit.ly/3OsEUIG
Politics, Legislation & Government
Kentucky Republicans seek to nationalize gubernatorial race as state Democrats keep focus local (note, Kentucky Governor, Andy Beshear (D), is pro-union and unanimously endorsed by the Kentucky AFL-CIO) https://cnn.it/3OwifeW
Michigan Registered Nurses Demand Safe Staffing Levels https://bit.ly/45eEnB9
Taxi workers to protest expansion of driverless cars in San Francisco https://bit.ly/45i1Z80
New protections for NJs temporary workers to go into effect https://bit.ly/3YoAHdO
Workplace Safety & Health
Delays in federal workers' comp can lead to delayed medical care, turning injuries into disabilities https://nbcnews.to/45huqml
Man who threatened poll workers and Arizona officials is sentenced to 3 1/2 years https://bit.ly/44YsWxN
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Labor History in 2:00: This Day in Labor History
August 7 - Fighting to Be Heard
In the early 1980s telephone service in the United States went through a major shake-up. Up until that time AT&T through their Bell Operating Companies monopolized almost all of the telephone service in the nation. One-hundred-fifty million phones were part of the Bell network.