Weekly Labor Updates

LABOR UPDATES

•  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”