The $185 million campaign to keep Uber and Lyft drivers as contractors in California
Sponsored by Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart and Postmates, California Proposition 22 would exempt drivers for their services from the rules of AB-5. The Nov. 2020 vote will decide if drivers are independent contractors or employees with benefits.
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There’s Not Much Work for Actors. Now Their Unions Are Fighting. – The New York Times
At issue: Who should represent performers and stage managers when theater is recorded and streamed, one of the few viable options during the pandemic.
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Judge sides with Chicagolocal in Teamsters union spat, finds James P. Hoffa ally ‘not credible’ – Chicago Tribune
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that James P. Hoffa, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, had improperly put a trustee in charge of running a local union last year after ousting its leadership team.
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Southwest seeks pay cuts from unions to avoid layoffs through 2021
Southwest Airlines said on Monday it is asking unions to agree to pay cuts in order to prevent furloughs and layoffs through 2021 as the industry struggles to stem losses from the coronavirus pandemic in the absence of more federal aid.
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Amazon: More than 19,000 employees have tested positive for coronvirus
More than 19,000 front-line Amazon employees have tested positive or been presumed positive for the novel coronavirus since the start of the pandemic, the company said last week. The data — the first of its kind released by Amazon — included all Amazon and Whole Foods Market front-line employees across the U.S. employed between March 1 and Sept. 19, a total of 1,372,000 workers. It comes months after many Amazon employees spoke out abou
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Amazon workers rally outside Jeff Bezos’ home to demand change
Protesters marched in Los Angeles to push for higher pay, increased taxes on the rich and improved workplace safety.
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‘I don’t care to listen to him anymore’: Coal miners turn their backs on Trump over failed promises – Raw Story
In a deep dive by the New York Times into how coal miners have fared under Donald Trump, the president was blistered for making promises he didn’t keep as the industry continues to collapse and miner unemployment soars.
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Strike shuts down four Equinor fields in the North Sea – OGV Energy
The trade union Lederne has stepped up its strike on the Norwegian continental shelf from Sunday midnight. As a result of the escalation, Equinor has conducted a controlled closure of the fields Gudrun, Gina Krog, Kvitebjørn and Valemon.
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Labor Authority Abandons Decades of Precedent, Eviscerates Union Bargaining Rights
Across multiple decisions on Wednesday, the agency that governs federal sector labor law removed unions’ right to midterm bargaining and made it harder for unions to demand agencies bargain over changes to working conditions.
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Hoffa and Vairma Give Green Light to Corruption
In a critical test of whether our union leaders can root out corrupt officials who abuse their positions, a narrow majority on the IBT General Executive Board (GEB) voted 12-11 to give a pass to corrupt Teamster power broker Rome Aloise.
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TDU (Teamsters For a Democratic Union) is an organization made up of rank and file teamster members who’s goal is to rid corruption from the union’s leadership. TDU was largely responsible for Ex IBT President Ron Carey and almost all of his slates rise to power in 1991. They published this article about the failure of IBT President Jimmy Hoffa’s administration to hold Teamsters officials accountable for violating the union’s constitution. It doesn’t surprise me that even in this time of heighten attention of corruption by the UAW union’s top officials, the Teamsters are snubbing their noses at clear ethical violations within their ranks!