Posts tagged Rochester
Journalists turn to picket lines as the news business ails
February 16, 2024 // At the L.A. Times, where Schleuss got his start as a labor activist, owner Soon-Shiong made deep cuts last June and again last month, saying he is losing tens of millions of dollars a year on the paper. He says the union's refusal to give him greater leeway in making job cuts in January forced him to lay off more journalists. He had offered buyouts in exchange for relaxing protections by seniority. The union instead went out on strike.
URMC workers union approves contract, avoiding strike
December 29, 2023 //
Rochester General Hospital nurses’ strike ends
August 8, 2023 // According to RUNAP, nearly all units at RGH are severely short-staffed on any given shift. RRH said if the hospital agreed to everything the union is demanding, it would cost the health system more than $111 million for just the first year of the contract.
Workers at Kemps Ice Cream plant in Rochester near strike
April 20, 2022 //
2 Rochester Starbucks vote to unionize
April 7, 2022 // Two Rochester Starbucks locations voted to unionize Thursday, the latest in a growing unionization movement within the company which began in Buffalo. The locations on Mount Hope Boulevard and Monroe Avenue joined Starbucks Workers United Thursday.
Big Labor is Targeting Banks and Credit Unions??
March 28, 2022 // Recent successful efforts by big labor to organize and unionize bank and credit union workers in New York, Washington, Oregon and California, highlight the financial industry’s vulnerability. Of course, supervisors and managers are generally prohibited from assisting and excluded from forming a labor union under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), nearly every other type of employee in the private sector is generally free to organize and bargain collectively with their employer and engage in other protected concerted activities related to terms and conditions of employment, or choose to refrain from such activities. Being simply employed by a bank, credit union or other financial institution does not prevent the worker from forming or joining a union under the NLRA.