Newsletter December 20, 2024

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RWP Leadership! What's it's all about?

John Pryor, President of RWP Lead explains the mission of RWP Lead and the impact it can have on leadership in any organization. 

Senate Democrats fail to approve Biden's NLRB Chair pick - Russ Brown Interview!

UNION REPRESENTATION PETITIONS FILED 12/19/24

 Case Number: 22-RD-357027 Date Filed: 12/19/2024 Status: Open No Employees: 7   Location: Clifton, NJ Region Assigned: Region 22, Newark, New Jersey  Unit Sought: INCLUDED:  Drivers  EXCLUDED:  Office Staff  Individual  

 Case Number: 04-RC-356991 Date Filed: 12/19/2024 Status: Open No Employees: 12   Location: Bethlehem, PA Region Assigned: Region 04, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania  Unit Sought: Included: Drivers   Excluded: Warehouse   Teamsters Local Union No. 773 

 Case Number: 18-RM-357049 Date Filed: 12/19/2024 Status: Open No Employees: 5   Location: Milwaukee, WI Region Assigned: Region 18, Minneapolis, Minnesota  Unit Sought: Included:  All full-time mechanics, drivers, and yard technician employed at  Branch 1623 Excluded: All other employees, including managers and  supervisors as defined by the NLRA International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 139   

 Case Number: 14-RC-357058 Date Filed: 12/19/2024 Status: Open No Employees: 10   Location: Saint Robert, MO Region Assigned: Region 14, Saint Louis, Missouri  Unit Sought: Included:  All full-time and regular part-time Body Technicians,Refinish  Technicians, Service Technicians, Estimators, Parts Administrators,  Parts Counterpersons, Apprentices and Detailers who are employed by the  Employer at their 787 Highway Z Saint Robert, MO facility.  Excluded: All other Employees, Office Clerical Employees, Professional  Employees, guards and Supervisors as defined by the Act. District Lodge 9, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO   

 Case Number: 19-RC-357052 Date Filed: 12/19/2024 Status: Open No Employees: 13   Location: Seattle, WA Region Assigned: Region 19, Seattle, Washington  Unit Sought: Included:  Lead Admissions RN   Excluded: All managerial employees, supervisory employees, guards,  physicians, business office clerical employees, service, technical and  any other confidential employees.  SEIU Healthcare 1199NW  

TODAY'S LABOR UNION NEWS Friday December 20, 2024

Amazon hit by 'strike' during holiday season scramble

LA Starbucks baristas to begin strike on Friday, union says

VW and union getting closer to deal, sources say

United Farm Workers announce boycott of Sunnyside mushroom farm

Volkswagen Union Says Labor Negotiations Stuck After Four Days of Talks

UNION ORGANIZING

New York’s Fastest-Growing Union Is Management’s Best Friend — and Some Workers Don’t Even Know They’re Members

Jeff Bezos Thinks He’s Invincible, but Amazon Workers Are Striking to Prove Him Wrong

The state of the unions: Labor leaders look toward challenging years ahead

Thousands of US Amazon staff strike days before Christmas

How Labor Can Fight Trump’s Authoritarianism

Street Roots staff are unionizing

Amazon Is Targeted by Teamsters in Effort to Disrupt Christmas

NLRB

Jayapal Statement on Amazon Workers’ Strike

Trump Pitched a Labor-Friendly GOP. Labor Advocates Want to See His NLRB Picks First.

NLRB Petitions & Charges for Thursday, December 19, 2024

INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS(IBT)

Teamsters say 'momentum continues' as Christmastime strike against Amazon enters 2nd day

UNITED AUTO WORKERS UNION(UAW)

Rivian (RIVN) Secures a Unique Agreement with the United Auto Workers Union

Weekly roundup: UAW ordered to turn over documents, Fed eases rates, Ford leadership changes

Rivian Quietly Paves Way for UAW Workforce Once Profitable

UAW Reaches Secret Deal With Rivian to Make Unionizing Easier

UNITED STEELWORKERS OF AMERICA(USWA)

Japan’s Nippon makes last-ditch appeal to clinch $15bn US Steel deal 

Editorial by Bloomberg Opinion | Nixing the Nippon Steel deal is still a terrible idea

Sierra Hills assisted living employees in Cheyenne to strike over staffing issues

UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS UNION(UFCW)

Farmworkers at Highline Mushrooms Break Ground with Industry-Leading Union Agreement

Rolling Strikes at CVS Halted as Company Gave In

COMMUNICATION WORKERS OF AMERICA(CWA)

N.J. Healthcare Workers Demand Better Pay and Benefits

CWA Local 7901 emerges from trusteeship

Nadler, Durbin, Hawley Introduce Bipartisan Bill To Protect Employees When Businesses File For Bankruptcy

‘Stunned by the solidarity’: New York Times  tech workers make ‘shocking’ $114,000 donation to Post-Gazette strikers,  just in time for the holidays

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MACHINIST UNION(IAM)

Boeing gives copy-cat raises to its non-union assembly workers in South Carolina

More Boeing layoffs impact Washington workers

Aerospace Labor and Management Will Keep Adjusting Their Yokes In 2025

Boeing Beats Airbus to Win Huge Plane Order

Police arrest man on IKEA picket line in Perryville

INTERNATIONAL LONG-SHORE AND WAREHOUSE UNION(ILA)

US port dispute: 'the carriers and USMX are going to lose this battle'

SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION(SEIU)

145 workers in Maine’s Office of Child and Family Services sign letter of no confidence in director

Building workers net $145K in prevailing wage settlement

Watsonville hospital service workers to picket as negotiations over wages, health care costs continue

Citing Trump, CTU cranks up pressure on school district to settle contract before 2025

How Labor Can Fight Trump’s Authoritarianism

UNITE-HERE UNION

Biggest SF hotel chain makes deal with union to end strike

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