Posts tagged contract
Chicago school board OKs $139M to fund new teacher contract, launches equity initiatives
April 27, 2025 // “We’re doing everything we can to shield as much as we can, as we plan for the upcoming budget season,” said Ben Felton, the district’s chief talent officer, in a presentation touting the CPS teacher recruitment process to board members. “But maintaining staffing levels will require additional revenue, and there’s no disillusionment around that.” To address disparities that persist between Black students and other student groups in terms of discipline, academic achievement and access to rigorous academic courses and extracurricular activities, the school board passed a resolution codifying its Black Student Achievement Committee, chaired by board member Jitu Brown, of District 6, on the city’s West Side.
Strike at Nestlé Purina plant in US ends after seven weeks
April 24, 2025 // More than 450 workers affiliated with the labour union Teamsters Local 773 participated in the seven-week strike at the plant in South Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania. In a statement announcing the development, the union said the agreement with Nestlé includes “substantial” wage increases, an “expedited” grievance procedure, and enhancements to several workplace conditions.
Boston public school teachers reach tentative contract agreement with city
March 20, 2025 // Teachers have been required to be certified in general education, special education and English as a second language. Some were often simultaneously teaching all three types of students in the same classroom. The union president says that this agreement will now increase classroom staffing levels. The next step is that the union members will vote if they want to ratify this new agreement, or they can go back to more bargaining sessions
US dockworkers approve 6-year contract, averting a strike
February 27, 2025 // The contract calls for a 62% pay hike over six years that would lift hourly wages at the top of the union pay scale from $39 an hour to $63 an hour. ILA President Harold Daggett, who served as the union’s chief negotiator, was quoted in the statement as saying the agreement is “the ‘gold standard’ for dockworker unions globally.” He remarked that it was a difficult contract to negotiate and even required a three-day strike last fall, but “We now have labor peace for the next six years.”
Stop & Shop says it will close Mass. distribution center if no contract is reached
February 25, 2025 // The statement went on to say that if an agreement is not reached by Feb. 28, the company will outsource the warehouse work and shut the facility down. "This is not a decision we take lightly, and we care deeply about protecting these union jobs and maintaining our presence in Freetown. It is critical that the local collaborates with us in achieving the labor savings needed to do so," the statement reads.
BATON ROUGE: Transit union threatening strike if CATS does not meet their demands
January 29, 2025 // Unsatisfied with CATS response, the union says they are taking a stand. Decuir says they will conduct a series of "workforce actions," meaning they will continue to be vocal about their concerns without disrupting operations.
Delta workers push for a vote to unionize in MN
January 27, 2025 // Gores said it’s not as easy for them to unionize like other companies. He said they are restricted by the railway labor act. Employees have to sign an authorization cards that are only valid for one year. He said it’s challenging to get people to resign each year. Gores said they need 9,000 or more authorization cards to be able to file for an election.
3rd in a week: Michigan Medicine strikes deal with another health union
January 22, 2025 // Monday’s contract ratification follows two tentative deals announced last week. The Professional Employee Council of Sparrow Hospital-Michigan Nurses Association announced a deal on Jan. 14, while United Michigan Medicine Allied Professionals announced one the next day. Both tentative deals terminated a pair of planned strikes for what would have been a combined 6,500 medical professionals. The unions will have members vote to ratify contracts in the coming weeks, officials previously said.
After West Coast contract win, machinists’ union sets sights on Boeing’s non-union South Carolina factories
December 20, 2024 // The IAM International is looking to make inroads at Boeing's non-union South Carolina factories after a contract win on the West Coast.
Key union vows to fight back after Trump says he would end remote work for federal employees
December 19, 2024 // Trump, who spoke to reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, called the deal "very terrible" and said it's interfering with his plans for how to handle the federal workforce, which include ending remote work. He said he would seek to challenge the rule in court. "If people don't come back to work, come back into the office, they're going to be dismissed, and somebody in the Biden administration gave a five-year waiver of that, so that for five years people don’t have to come back into the office,” Trump said at his first post-election news conference.