Weekly Labor Updates
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- Dartmouth has agreed to stay neutral in their students worker’s union election. “More employers, including institutions of higher education, should follow their lead” states the union. This sis over 5,000 employees.
- 19 cannabis workers in Illinois, PharmaCann, voted unanimously, 15-0, in favor of joining the teamsters.
- 164 non-profit workers at a substance abuse help line , Lines For Life, voted 74-42 in favor of joining AFSCME
- BREAKING: More than 8,000 teachers in Minneapolis & St Paul say they plan to strike beginning March 8 if negotiations with their school districts remain stalled. The teachers are fighting for smaller class sizes and pay
increases—support staff now make as little as $24,000. They have not been on strike since 1970. - BREAKING: Workers who make cakes for Baskin Robbins have ratified a new contract with Rich Products to end a nearly 4-month strike in CA. “The mainly immigrant Latina workers walked out over agonizing conditions & low pay. They won a “significant” pay raise & more, per the Bakers Union”
Weekly Labor Updates
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- 500 employees are organizing with the UFCW in Seattle for better
compensation, flexibility, transparency, and Opportunity at Card Kingdom - NEWS: A worker says Nintendo of America violated their right to organize and has filed a National Labor Relations Board complaint against them and a hiring firm Nintendo had largely avoided the industry’s labor scandals, but an investigation will follow
- BREAKING: The first Apple store in the United States has filed for a union election with the Communications Workers of America. The Atlanta store could be the first of Apple’s 272 brick-and-mortar stores to unionize.
- Strippers are currently out on strike dressed in OSHA violations.
- NEW: 14 pharmacists at Walgreens stores across the SF bay area have voted 9-4 in favor of joining the UFCW
- 35 non-profit workers at a homeless shelter in Ann Arbor are unionizing with the IWW as the Delonis Workers United. Their management has declined voluntary recognition.
- 210 bus drivers and other transportation workers in Riverside CA are unionizing with the ATU
- 13 front of house workers at Crux Fermentation Project, a brew-pub in Bend, OR are unionizing with what appears to be an independent union named “Crux Front of the House Employees Union.”
- Corporate campaigns continue against Sysco, Republic, Amazon, HCA,
Starbucks, Ryder and more. Our research team has found many more.
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