UFCW and Teamsters Battling TOPS
Stephanie West
March 30, 2018
NEW YORK, NY – Tops Markets has filed Chapter 11 on February 11 and is planning to reduce payments into both its UFCW and Teamsters union pension funds.
Category: Law and Politics
Is NLRB Eyeing Reversal on Workers’ Email Rights?
Steve Wishnia and Neal Tepel
March 30, 2018
WASHINGTON—The National Labor Relations Board may be looking for a way to reverse its 2014 decision that worker have the right to use an employer’s email system for union organizing.
NYC Wants to Ban After Hours Work
Kris LaGrange, UCOMM BLOG
March 29, 2018
NEW YORK, NY – The New York Council wants to ban employers from forcing their employees to answer calls, emails and text outside of their workday.
Strikers Rally On Charter/Spectrum’s Doorstep; Pols Threaten to Give Cable Giant The Boot
Silver Krieger
March 29, 2018
Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to include reaction from Charter/Spectrum spokesperson John Bonomo. New York, NY – Hundreds of striking workers from IBEW Local 3 and supporters, many
Angry Taxi Drivers Mourn the Dead — And Organize
Steve Wishnia
March 29, 2018
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Holding white carnations and “Stop the Race to the Bottom” signs, about 150 taxi drivers rallied on the steps of City Hall March 28. They were mourning Nicanor
Mayor Extends City Rent Regulations, Urges Stronger State Laws
Steve Wishnia
March 29, 2018
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Mayor Bill de Blasio signed legislation Mar. 27 that will renew the city’s rent-stabilization and rent-control laws for the next three years.
Connecticut Metal Painters Continue Strike at Porcelen Specrail
Steve Wishnia and Neal Tepel
March 29, 2018
HAMDEN, Conn.—Workers at Porcelen Specrail have been out on strike since their contract extension expired Mar. 1 and the company threatened to fire immigrant workers who it claimed had irregular
Canadian Business Groups Try to Head Off Card Check in B.C.
Steve Wishnia and Neal Tepel
March 29, 2018
VANCOUVER, British Columbia—With the provincial government considering a move to enable workers to unionize by card check, a coalition of 13 business groups are urging it to continue requiring a
Missouri House Votes to Repeal Prevailing Wage
Steve Wishnia and Neal Tepel
March 28, 2018
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.—The Republican-controlled Missouri House voted 89-63 to repeal the state’s prevailing-wage law Mar. 13. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Jeff Justus (R-Branson), would instead require contractors on public-works
CWA and Frontier Reopen Talks
Steve Wishnia and Neal Tepel
March 28, 2018
CHARLESTON. W.Va.—Frontier Communications has resumed contract talks with the Communications Workers of America in an effort to settle the strike by about 1,400 workers that began March 4.
