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    Ousted carpenters chief decries ‘hostile takeover’ of St. Louis union

    May 12, 2022 // In September, Bond’s position was eliminated and the St. Louis council was terminated with little explanation. UBC President Doug McCarron later said the national union was investigating “financial malfeasance” in the St. Louis-Kansas City Carpenters Regional Council, and union officials said they planned formal, internal charges against Bond for “defrauding” the union.

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    Kansas City-area painters, allied trades union members strike Tuesday

    April 14, 2022 // The association said they made an offer on behalf of employers to those striking to increase hourly rates for work to more than $32 per hour along with other benefits.

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    NJ, NY Sanitation Workers Vote Overwhelmingly to Flush Unwanted Teamsters Union

    March 22, 2022 // Mr. John Operations employees voted 30-10 to oust union officials from workplace in Labor Board decertification election

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    Canada’s CP Rail Shuts Down Railroad, Workers Strike

    March 21, 2022 // Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) halted operations and locked out workers over a labor dispute early on Sunday, with each side blaming the other for a halt that will likely disrupt shipment of key commodities at a time of soaring prices.

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    Canada, U.S. shippers brace for possible CP Rail strike, latest supply-chain disruption

    March 19, 2022 // Numerous U.S. farm industry groups wrote a joint letter to President Joe Biden this month asking him and the Canadian government to avert a strike.

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    Atlantic Aviation Employees Free from Unwanted Union after IAM Flies Away to Avoid Vote

    March 9, 2022 // Atlantic Aviation PNE, Inc. employee Tiffany Lipyanic and her coworkers have won their effort to free themselves from unwanted union monopoly “representation.” After the employees filed a request for a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decertification election to end the union’s monopoly bargaining powers over all workers at the Atlantic Aviation facility at Philadelphia Northeast Airport, International Association of Machinists (IAM) union officials abandoned their “representation” rather than face an overwhelming vote against the union.

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    Missouri Hospital Staff’s Decision to Remove SEIU Stands, NLRB Director Tosses Union Objections

    February 12, 2022 // SEIU officials attempted to overturn the result of an August 2021 decertification election at Research Medical Center

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