Weekly Digest – April 2, 2014
Compiled by Steven Wishnia and Neal Tepel NLRB Says College Athletes Have Right to Unions A regional director of the National Labor Relations Board ruled Mar. 26 that a group…
Compiled by Steven Wishnia and Neal Tepel NLRB Says College Athletes Have Right to Unions A regional director of the National Labor Relations Board ruled Mar. 26 that a group…
Compiled by Steven Wishnia and Neal Tepel L.A. Port Truckers Ruled Employees Truck drivers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach won a National Labor Relations Board settlement…
…DC 33 members haven’t gotten a raise since 2007. Unifor Optimistic on Organizing Toyota Canada’s Unifor has made organizing the Toyota plants in Cambridge and Woodstock, Ontario its first major…
…to give information to the American Postal Workers Union about its deal to provide postal services in Staples stores. The APWU, which is demanding that those jobs go to postal…
…site, cashinginonkids.com/, posts news and information about K12 Inc., Imagine Schools, White Hat Management, Academica, and Charter Schools USA. The AFT is running it in collaboration with In the Public…
…Finds 26% of Americans Go to Work While Sick One in every four Americans goes into work even when they’re sick enough to infect other people, according to a survey…
…time passing the Tennessee Senate,” state Sen. Bo Watson said Feb. 10, calling VW’s cooperation with the UAW “unfair, unbalanced and, quite frankly, un-American.” The three-year-old factory received state tax…
…goal for the “Center for Worker Freedom,” a front group for Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform. Executive director Matt Patterson said the organization plans to intensify its anti-union advertising…
…was a “dismal failure, and Governor Rick Scott is responsible.” Florida has required people applying for unemployment benefits to do so online since 2011, including completing a 45-question online exam…
…Fairness at Nissan held a protest and news conference at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit Jan. 13. “Nissan workers globally enjoy a right that American workers do…