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Brigham and Women’s nurses union sets date for largest open-ended nurses strike in Mass. history
November 3, 2026 // If both sides don't come to an agreement before Nov. 12, the nurses' union said this would be the largest open-ended nurses strike in Massachusetts history. "It is going to be huge. 4,000 nurses are going to be out of work for an indefinite amount of time. That impacts the patients who come and get their care at the Brigham and that's going to have a ripple effect over the city of Boston," said Kelly Morga, chair of the Brigham and Women's Hospital MNA Bargaining Committee, which represents the nurses.
Molson Coors employees in Elkton join Teamsters union
October 28, 2026 // Hourly employees at the Molson Coors brewery in Elkton voted last month to join the International Brotherhood of Teamsters' Local 29 chapter based in Verona. The union also represents ABF Freight truckers, Danone and other dairy plant workers, Marshall's Distribution Center mechanics, and city employees in Charlottesville. The broader Teamsters organization also represents Coors workers in Fort Worth, Texas.
Realty Advisory Board, NYC building workers union reach tentative labor agreement
April 20, 2026 // The Realty Advisory Board and SEIU 32BJ announced that they reached a tentative labor agreement on Friday afternoon. The development comes after thousands of workers voted to authorize a strike that would impact more than 1.5 million residents. The new contract includes wage increases, additional pension benefits and continued healthcare benefits.
Temple University Hospital union pushes back planned strike
October 1, 2025 // Under the provision, members would have had to pay double their current costs for treatment provided outside the Temple Health system, according to PASNAP. Some employees do not live near a Temple facility or have longstanding relationships with other doctors, union officials said. Putting off the strike deadline will allow Temple to hold onto a $4.5 million payment that was scheduled to go out Monday to an agency providing fill-in nurses, PASNAP said.
Union members at one Philadelphia hotel authorized a strike, as more could vote in the future too
September 24, 2025 // In addition to wage raises, the union is seeking improvements to healthcare benefits for dependents, worker pensions, and more robust staffing across hotels. The unionized employees include room attendants, cooks, servers, bartenders, dishwashers, and banquet staff at the Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown, Sonesta Philadelphia Rittenhouse Square, the Warwick Hotel Rittenhouse Square, Wyndham Philadelphia Historic District, Hilton Garden Inn Philadelphia Center City, Hampton Inn Philadelphia Center City — Convention Center, Sheraton Philadelphia University City Hotel, and Hilton Philadelphia at Penn’s Landing.
MICHIGAN: Labor unions praise ‘responsible bidder’ ordinances while contractors warn of workforce shortages
July 30, 2025 // But contractors say some elements of the plan would unfairly impact local bidders. Jeremiah Leyba is the director of engineering for the Michigan Infrastructure and Transportation Association, which represents more than 500 companies in Michigan. He says not all contractors can easily access federal apprenticeship programs and also rely on trade school diplomas, community college degrees and industry certifications for workforce development. “The city of Lansing would be excluding bidders that are highly qualified, and with dwindling workforces across the state, it is an exclusion no municipality can responsibly afford,” Leyba said. Several localities in Michigan already have responsible bidder ordinances in place, including Jackson, Royal Oak and Detroit.
Independent Contracting in 2025
January 8, 2025 // Independent contractors forgo workplace benefits that employees receive. Portable benefits are a way to give them access to benefits untethered from employment with one employer.
Brooklyn Museum Union Pickets VIP Artists Ball as Contract Negotiations Stall
April 28, 2023 // On Wednesday night, as guests of the Brooklyn Museum arrived for the annual, star-studded Artists Ball, members of the museum’s union gathered—once again—along the entryway, to raise their voices in songs and speeches of protest. Many brandished signs (“Solidarity with the Union”) and chanted (“overworked and underpaid” and “Brooklyn is a union town”). In August 2021, some 130 employees of the Brooklyn Museum, including curators, conservators, editors, fundraisers, educators, and members of the visitor services department, voted overwhelmingly to unionize. They affiliated with the Technical, Office, and Professional Union, Local 2110, part of the United Automobile Workers (UAW) union which also represents workers at the Museum of Modern Art, the Bronx Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, among other cultural institutions across the US.
Sens. Braun, Burr, Thune, and Rep. Foxx Lead Republican Colleagues in Urging Department of Labor to Protect Independent Contractor Classification
December 19, 2022 // Senators Braun, Burr and Thune are leading a bicameral letter with Rep. Foxx (R-N.C.) urging the Department of Labor (DOL) not to move forward with its proposed rule for determining independent contractor classification due to the negative impact on workers and business, the test’s lack of clarity and the devastating consequences for the U.S. economy. They are joined by Sens. Hagerty, Romney, T. Scott, Cramer, Johnson, Barrasso, Cassidy, Lankford, Marshall, Hoeven, Blackburn, Boozman, Tuberville, Young, Lummis, Lee, R. Scott, Inhofe, Graham, Fischer, Ernst, Shelby, and Rounds as well as Reps. Wilson, Thompson, Walberg, Grothman, Stefanik, Allen, Banks, Comer, Fulcher, Keller, Miller-Meeks, Owens, Good, McClain, Harshbarger, Miller, Spartz, Fitzgerald, Steel, and Pete Sessions.
Nickelodeon Studios Production Workers Go Public With Wage Concerns During Union Drive
December 7, 2022 // TAG, an IATSE Local, said Monday that it is attempting to unionize 177 production managers, production coordinators, post production assistants, art production coordinators and asset coordinators, among others, at the studio. Though TAG has been busy organizing production workers at studios including Bento Box Entertainment and ShadowMachine since the start of the year, “To date, this is the largest bargaining unit of production workers to organize under The Animation Guild,” TAG said in a statement. According to TAG, a “supermajority” of this group voted to join the Guild in a card count.