Weekly Digest – March 12, 2014
…administrative law judge has been set for March 31. Portland Port Strike Stopped A strike by longshoremen in the port of Portland, Oregon Mar. 4 ended after an arbitrator ruled…
…administrative law judge has been set for March 31. Portland Port Strike Stopped A strike by longshoremen in the port of Portland, Oregon Mar. 4 ended after an arbitrator ruled…
…It’s a Small Paycheck After All: Disney World ‘Cast Members’ Protest Nearly 1,000 workers at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida rallied Feb. 24 to demand higher pay and better…
…them out,” she told the Greenville News afterwards, saying that unions were not necessary because employers take care of their “associates.” “To keep jobs from coming here because they’re union,…
…YRC Worldwide Teamsters at the YRC Worldwide Inc. trucking firm approved a revised contract offer Jan. 26 by a 2-1 majority. The deal extends the 15 percent pay cut they…
…out of work for more than six months—the highest rate of long-term unemployment since World War II. On average, it takes a laid-off worker almost eight months to find a…
…county judge Nov. 26 barred them from entering company property or disrupting access to the stores. Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge Paul Harris, ruling that the protests have hurt the…
…police attacked them with rubber bullets and tear gas. Factory owners had wanted to limit the minimum to $57, claiming that the Western companies they produce clothes for would be…
…“Staff around the UK are taking strike action to try and reverse some of the most sustained pay cuts since the Second World War,” said Sally Hunt, general secretary of…
…Group Urges FIFA to Move 2022 World Cup from Qatar The International Trade Union Confederation said Oct. 4 that the 2022 World Cup should be moved from Qatar to a…
…been described as a contest between Hollywood and New York, SAG-AFTRA’s New York local president, Mike Hodge, is running against Los Angeles First National VP Gabrielle Carteris to be the…