Posts tagged Julie Su
Federal bailout gives $635 million to carpenters union pension plan
November 24, 2024 // The federal government is spending $635 million in taxpayer funds to bail out a multiemployer pension fund for a Detroit carpenters union. Pension experts warn that the bailout comes with little or no accountability and no indication that it won’t happen again. Julie Su, acting secretary of labor, announced the bailout in a video posted to her X account Oct. 18. Su credited the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act, which appropriated $86 billion for union pensions.
Op-Ed: Follow Trump 45 Labor Policy, Not the Teamsters Union
November 21, 2024 // By pushing Rep. Chavez-DeRemer for secretary of labor, O’Brien is essentially asking the winner of the 2024 presidential election to concede to the loser on one of the most important pieces of domestic legislation after the winner has already won in exchange for nothing. Rather than taking labor policy advice from a union boss, President Trump would do much better to follow the example he himself set in his previous term.
Boeing strike ends as workers accept new contract
November 5, 2024 // Boeing has said the average annual machinists' pay at the end of the new four-year contract will be $119,309, up from $75,608 previously. The pay increase may add $1.1 billion to Boeing's wage bill over the four years, while a $12,000 ratification bonus for each union member could result in another $396 million in outflows, according to analysts at Jefferies. More than 26,000 union members voted, putting turnout near 80%.
Boeing and IAM announce new contract vote on Nov 4
November 1, 2024 // With the assistance of Secretary of Labor Julie Su, the International Association of Machinist (IAM) 751 & W24 will be allowing its 33,000 members on Monday, November 4, to vote on an updated contract offer by Boeing with hopes to ending a 49-day strike that has cost billions of dollars in lost revenue.
Boeing workers vote to reject contract deal, extending strike
October 24, 2024 // Boeing has announced plans to cut 17,000 jobs and is closing in on a plan to raise up to $15 billion from investors to help preserve its investment grade credit rating, while some airlines have had to trim schedules due to aircraft delivery delays. Ortberg warned on Wednesday there was no quick fix for the ailing planemaker.
A Labor Dispute Inside The Department of Labor?
October 24, 2024 // Acting DOL Secretary Julie Su (dubbed "the union whisperer") is being accused of acting in "bad-faith" by her own DOL employees' union and wasting tax-payer resources.
MICHIGAN: Acting Secretary of Labor joins home healthcare workers
October 23, 2024 // Senate Bills 790 and 791 were signed into law by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer October 8. The laws restore the right of home healthcare workers to unionize and bargain. The new laws could impact as many as 35,000 people providing healthcare services in private homes.
Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su Criticizes Donald Trump’s Labor Record at IOP
October 22, 2024 // Though Su declined to address the former president by name, she argued that “hypothetically,” opposition to overtime pay, sexual harassment, and support for Elon Musk are incompatible with a “pro-worker” position. “I don’t care how many McDonald’s drive-throughs you pretend to work at,” Su said, referencing Trump’s Sunday visit to a Philadelphia McDonald’s where he served fries and answered questions through the drive-through window. Su was joined by Sara Nelson, the president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO to discuss the future of the American Labor Movement. Brett Story and Stephen Maing, directors of “UNION”— a documentary film that followed the unionization of Amazon workers in Staten Island, New York — were also on the panel.
Labor Dept. to require workers to spend half of work time in-person, angering union
October 22, 2024 // In an email to staff last week, Su announced that new in-person work requirements will take effect Dec. 1. Beginning on that date, all non-bargaining unit employees outside of the Washington, D.C., region and all members of the NCFLL bargaining unit will be required to spend five days per pay period in traditional offices or on field work. The new policy does not apply to the more than 100 employees who are part of the National Union of Labor Investigators, with whom the department continues to negotiate, or Office of Inspector General employees, while non-bargaining unit D.C.-area workers already have been commuting for half of their work hours.
With trucking at a crossroads, ATA’s Spear reminds industry what’s at stake
October 21, 2024 // The leader of trucking’s largest trade group says the industry won’t ‘roll over’ to ‘union thuggery’ and unrealistic politicians’ attempts to tear down the industry that drives the U.S. economy.