Posts tagged contract negotiations
CHICAGO: BP presents ‘last, best and final offer’ in union negotiations
March 4, 2026 // BP’S other changes include a discontinuation of non-core craft lines, eligibility for up to five paid shifts of sick leave per year, increased overtime meal payments by 33%, increased boot allowance by 25%, flexibility to adopt artificial intelligence technology, “more equitable” distribution of overtime drafts and a four-day, 10-hour work schedule for maintenance technicians, according to the website. USW President 7-1 Eric Schultz responded to the offer in a Tuesday afternoon statement. He claims that it eliminates and outsources union jobs, cuts base wages across most job classifications, strips bargaining rights, ends seniority protections for layoffs and limits the union’s ability to strike.
10,000 Corewell nurses to vote on strike authorization amid first contract negotiations
March 3, 2026 // "Last week, the Teamsters added an additional $62 million in proposals on top of their previous $2 billion earlier proposals. This is not good faith bargaining. We cannot reach an agreement if the Teamsters’ proposals keep going up without discussion about actual priorities. Any talk of a strike authorization is premature as negotiations are still ongoing." What's next: Voting begins at 9 a.m. Monday and will remain open until results are announced on March 17.
San Francisco court clerks to begin strike Thursday after contract negotiations stall
February 26, 2026 // “Mandated services will proceed with the help of management employees who will triage and prioritize emergency matters for people who need help today,” said Court Executive Officer Riley in the statement. “It is unfortunate that SEIU has decided to disrupt court services after more than 28 bargaining sessions and two mediation sessions to reach a fair 3-year contract that reflects the economic realities of state funding for the judicial branch.”
St. John’s University says it no longer recognizes faculty unions after 56 years
February 24, 2026 // Asserting its identity as a religious institution of higher education, attorneys for St. John's University argued that New York's Public Employment Relations Board lacked jurisdiction over the university on First Amendment grounds. The university also said that faculty members were "managerial employees" of the university and "therefore must be excluded from any bargaining unit." The university's response further argued that the state board was "preempted" from asserting jurisdiction under the federal National Labor Relations Act.
Pharmacy and Lab Workers Join the Labor Strike Against Kaiser Permanente
February 10, 2026 // Over 3,000 pharmacy and lab workers have begun to strike during their own contract negotiations with the health care organization
After Nearly Three Months, NYC Starbucks Workers Quietly End Strike
February 9, 2026 // Starbucks workers at 10 unionized New York City stores quietly returned to work on Thursday, ending their nearly three-month strike after failing to force management back to the bargaining table for a first contract. Workers in more than 85 cities nationwide have walked off the job since Nov. 13 in what the union called a “Red Cup Rebellion,” to protest the company’s alleged refusal to finalize a collective bargaining agreement with their union, Starbucks Workers United.
Union neither accepts nor rejects last Marathon offer on US refinery pact, sources say
February 3, 2026 // The United Steelworkers union (USW) has neither accepted nor rejected the last offer from Marathon Petroleum for a new four-year labor agreement for U.S. refineries and chemical plants, people familiar with the talks said on Monday. The offer, made in negotiations on Sunday, would give 30,000 workers represented by the USW a 15% pay increase over the length of the contract, the sources said.
Why SAG-AFTRA’s 2026 Contract Talks Matter for Los Angeles and the Business of Hollywood
January 29, 2026 // Artificial intelligence looms as perhaps the most complex issue on the table. Advances in voice replication, digital doubles and performance synthesis have raised concerns that actors’ likenesses could be reused without meaningful consent or compensation. Astin characterized AI as an immediate labor issue rather than a speculative one, particularly in a market like Los Angeles, where background performers, day players and voice actors form a large part of the workforce.
What we know so far about San Francisco’s looming teachers strike
January 28, 2026 // Su said the offer was one of SFUSD’s “creative suggestions” it presented to the union at the bargaining table. Other suggestions included augmenting the salaries of special education teachers and identifying a pathway for the district to fully fund family health benefits. Those offers were rejected by the union without a counteroffer, according to Su. The district claims that it simply can’t meet the union’s salary demands while also closing its roughly $100 million budget deficit and avoiding state oversight.
Kaiser labor talks stall, raising fears of another strike
January 1, 2026 // Talks between United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals and the Oakland-based health care giant have broken down amid sharply different accounts of why negotiations stalled. The union says Kaiser officials unlawfully walked away from negotiations. Kaiser did pause the talks, Elissa Harrington, a spokesperson for Kaiser in the East Bay, confirmed in an email. She said the decision came after an unnamed labor leader went outside formal bargaining channels and threatened to release what Kaiser described as damaging information about the company if an agreement was not reached. Harrington said the union “has refused to share the information it claims to have.”