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DC-Area Union Kitchen Employees Overwhelmingly Vote to Remove UFCW Union
January 9, 2024 // Silva and her coworkers’ effort began amid union boss-ordered pickets and boycotts against Union Kitchen Grocery locations, which inflamed tensions among workers. In some instances, union picketers endangered workers by blocking exits, requiring the intervention of police. “The vast majority of the workers at Union Kitchen are sick and tired of the UFCW’s picketing, harassment of employees, and constant disruptions of our day-to-day work life,” Silva said at the time. “If the union cares at all about what we want, they will respect our wishes and immediately disclaim their interest in representing workers who have overwhelmingly rejected them.”
DHL workers at CVG hub officially go on strike
December 7, 2023 // The hub's ramp and tug workers joined Teamsters in April after a year-long campaign to do so. The negotiating committee has been working with DHL since July seeking improved pay and working conditions. As of Dec. 3, DHL told the union further negotiations will not happen until after Thursday — but workers opted instead to go on strike that morning.
Iowa Planned Parenthood workers to picket in Des Moines, claiming unfair labor practices
December 1, 2023 // Unionized Planned Parenthood North Central States from Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska will picket outside of clinics Tuesday morning to call for a contract that meets workers' demands, including increased wages and lower health insurance premiums. In addition, union officials say they are drawing attention to intimidation and unfair labor practices faced by the bargaining team from the nonprofit health care provider. A demonstration will take place in Des Moines Tuesday outside of the Susan Knapp Health Center from 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m., before patients arrive for appointments. The demonstration is not a strike and will not affect patient care Tuesday, organizers said.
Graduate student worker strike averted as union, University reach 11th-hour deal
November 29, 2023 // Graduate student workers averted a strike Sunday evening when the Graduate Student Worker Organizing Committee and USC reached a tentative agreement on all of the union’s demands, notably on wage increases and a nondiscrimination clause. The agreement comes after seven months of negotiation. Meanwhile, the University faced pressure to finalize a deal with a Nov. 28 strike date if a deal had not been reached.
A union strike interrupts Minnesota United’s final game of season in St. Paul
October 9, 2023 // The local chapter of the IATSE has contracts with the Twins, Timberwolves, Wild, Bally Sports North, the Big Ten Network and other crewing contractors, Cushing said. They have voted down only one previous recent contract with Bally Sports North, but agreed and ratified a second offer. The Bally deal, Cushing said, also had 4% wage increases. On Saturday, MNUFC was able to cobble together enough crew to film and upload a stream to MLSSoccer.com and clips to air Apple TV’s highlight show and online.
GM Asks Salaried Employees To Cross Picket Lines At Parts Distribution Centers
September 27, 2023 // The expanded strike targets 32 locations total across 20 states, including both GM and Stellantis facilities. The UAW will continue to strike at the initial targets, including the GM Wentzville plant in Missouri, the Stellantis Toledo Assembly Complex in Ohio, and the Ford Wayne Assembly plant in Michigan. GM has also idled production at its Fairfax Assembly plant in Kansas as a result of the strike.
How state unemployment benefits impact the UAW strike
September 27, 2023 // "We were very confused if we were going to get (strike pay) or not," Halle Heinz, one of the Ford employees laid off, told WXYZ-TV in Detroit. "They were trying to hold as much strike pay as they could in order to make everything survive." Under Michigan law, UAW workers generally won't qualify for unemployment if they get laid off because of a labor dispute involving other workers at the same worksite, Brett Miller, an attorney specializing in labor law for Butzel in Detroit, tells Axios. UAW's Ohio and Indiana director is also navigating murky waters when it comes to unemployment. "It's clear as mud," UAW Region 2B director David Green told Crain's Cleveland Business. "I don't want to say all our members are going to get unemployment, because that's not going to happen." Disputes over unemployment benefits could end up in court, he said.
UAW widens strike against GM and Stellantis but not Ford
September 24, 2023 // GM called the strike escalation “unnecessary” and accused union leaders of “manipulating the bargaining process for their own personal agendas.” “We have now presented five separate economic proposals that are historic,” the company said. The 20 percent raise in its latest offer would boost 85 percent of GM’s UAW workforce to base-wage earnings of $82,000 a year by the end of the contract, the company said this week. It is also offering two weeks of paid parental leave and other perks. Stellantis said it submitted a new offer to the UAW on Thursday but has not received a reply. It said its 20 percent wage increase offer would boost all its full-time UAW workers to earnings of $80,000 to $96,000 annually by the end of the contract. The company questioned “whether the union’s leadership has ever had an interest in reaching an agreement in a timely manner.”
UAW strike: What the media won’t tell you about the strike
September 21, 2023 // The Wall Street Journal reported that some in the UAW, including President Shawn Fain, pushed for a full strike, but “there was a simple financial calculation to consider: Such an option would rapidly drain the UAW’s $825 million fund that it uses to pay striking workers, likely depleting it within about two months.” In other words, the union itself doesn’t think it could hold out for long if it tried to shut all three companies. Hence the spin surrounding the current limited strike: UAW is trying to make a virtue out of necessity. In past negotiations, UAW has tried to secure a deal with one of the three automakers ahead of the others and then use that agreement as a template for bargaining with the other two. That UAW didn’t try that this time suggests the union feared it could not wrestle even one company to the ground.