Weekly Labor Update

LABOR UPDATES

• The Biden administration set out 70 recommendations to encourage union membership in the US on Monday, including making it easier for many federal employees to join unions and eliminating barriers for union organizers to talk with workers on federal property.
• The report, compiled by the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment, reiterates Biden’s robust backing of unions. “At its core,” the report says, “it is our administration’s belief that unions benefit all of us.”
• Target team members at Store 1292 in Christiansburg, VA delivered their
  petition for seniority pay to their district manager and Target CEO.
• The NLRB is receiving an average of 14 petitions/day this month, nearly double April 2021’s average of 7.6/day.
• In April 2022 the Board has seen 2 days where it received 20+ petitions, the same number as single digit days. The Board had ZERO 20+ petition days in all of 2021.
• Two union officials and a building contractor were indicted on charges of
  stealing more than $350,000 from a union welfare fund. The embezzlement from Local 148 the International Novelty Workers Union in Jersey City was conducted from 1992 to 2001 by the fund administrator and one-time president, Joseph Nardone Jr., and contractor Stanley Rothman, Monday’s indictment said. As part of the scheme, Nardone had the union pay $1,300 a month for a no-show job to a third man, Peter Hasho, president of a New York local of the International Brotherhood of Trade Unions. All three were arrested Monday and released on $50,000 bond. The charges carry up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
• Corporate campaigns continue against Sysco, Republic, Amazon, HCA,
  Starbucks, Ryder and more. Our research team has found many more.