Posts tagged wages
Podcast: Championing Worker Freedom Across The States: Alan Jernigan and Vincent Vernuccio on ALEC TV
August 23, 2025 // As debates over worker rights ripple across the country, one message continues to echo from state to state: workers deserve the freedom to choose the work arrangements that fit their lives best. But how should lawmakers turn that principle into policy?
UnityPoint Des Moines nurses push unionization, Democratic Senate hopefuls show support
August 22, 2025 // Teamsters Local 90 in Des Moines announced they're endorsing State Senator Zach Wahls to represent Iowa in the U.S. Senate.
Boeing says no negotiations scheduled, $5K bonus no longer available
August 18, 2025 // Boeing confirms no negotiations scheduled with the machinists union as the strike nears one week.
MINNESOTA: Union representing U of M service workers files strike notice
August 10, 2025 // "The University is not immune to those challenges. The University has plans in place should a strike occur and is fully committed to minimizing any disruption this action might cause for our students, faculty, staff, and community." If workers walk off the job, enhanced strike benefits were approved by the union, including $1,000 a week, which reportedly exceeds the weekly pay of some workers across the university system.
Legal action threatened over NYC plan to hike delivery worker pay
August 9, 2025 // "This pain would be felt most acutely by the city’s independent grocers — those without the scale or cushion of national chains," the group wrote in an op-ed published earlier this week. "New York’s Independent grocers are already facing historic challenges, including inflation, soaring rents, rising retail theft, shrinking margins, and the rapid expansion of chain supermarkets and big-box retailers.
Educator urges Illinois teachers to reject union pressure, politics and coercion
August 7, 2025 // Sarah Fletcher, a former charter school educator and now the Head of School at White Horse Academy, a private school, said her own teaching career trajectory was shaped by a desire to avoid union involvement altogether. “When we moved here to Illinois from Arizona, I had very little interest in teaching at the public school,” Fletcher said. “Part of that was because I didn’t want to be pressured into or have to be mandated to pay dues. The IEA and IFT, which are part of larger organizations like the NEA, use the majority of their funds not to represent teachers, but for political advocacy.”
Now Park City Mountain’s bike and trail workers want to form a union
August 5, 2025 // After seeing the success of the ski patrol union in last winter’s strike, the resort’s summer employees are trying to follow suit.
Thousands of Boeing workers who build fighter jets and weapons go on strike
August 4, 2025 // The vote followed a weeklong cooling-off period after the machinists rejected an earlier proposed contract, which included a 20% wage increase over four years and $5,000 ratification bonuses. Boeing warned over the weekend that it anticipated the strike after workers rejected its latest offer, which did not further boost the proposed wage hike. However, the proposal removed a scheduling provision that would have affected workers' ability to earn overtime pay. “We’re disappointed our employees rejected an offer that featured 40% average wage growth and resolved their primary issue on alternative work schedules,”
New Game Plan: White House and Congress Move to Clarify Student Athlete Unionization Rights
July 31, 2025 // The SCORE bill’s ban is broad. Its key provision says, in part: “no individual may be considered an employee of an institution, a conference, or an interstate intercollegiate athletic association based on the participation of such individual on a varsity sports team or in an intercollegiate athletic competition as a student athlete.” In addition, the bill blocks states from enforcing any law that “governs or regulates the compensation, payment, benefits, employment status, or eligibility of a student athlete (including a prospective student athlete) with respect to participation in intercollegiate athletics.” It specifically blocks any state law that “relates to the right of a student athlete to receive compensation or other payments or benefits directly or indirectly from any institution, associated entity or individual, conference, or interstate intercollegiate athletic association.”
Safeway agrees to tentative agreement to prevent worker strike
July 27, 2025 //