Weekly Digest – March 5, 2014
…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…
…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,…
…rules and the workplace environment, at all its plants outside the U.S. and China, and labor representatives make up half of the company’s 20-member supervisory board. Rhode Island Announces Pension…
…who has worked at the plant for 28 years. The company is running the plant with scabs, and the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union has filed…
…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…
…Try Again at Amazon An attempt by the International Association of Machinists to organize maintenance and repair technicians at an Amazon warehouse in Middletown, Del., failed Jan. 15 when they…
…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…
…Toronto. Bridgeport Laborers Agree to Furloughs With the city of Bridgeport seeking to save $2 million in labor costs, members of the Laborers International Union of North America local representing…
…to accept a contract similar to the one they overwhelmingly rejected in November. International Association of Machinists District 751’s vote is scheduled for Jan. 3, and Boeing has repeatedly threatened…
Compiled by Steven Wishnia and Neal Tepel Washington Gov’s Call for Boeing Revote Irks Labor Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s Dec. 13 statement that the International Association of Machinists should let…