Local 6 Workers at C&H Sugar in Crockett on Strike, Demand Employer Bargain in Good Faith

Iconic 59-Year-Old Midwest Sandwich Chain Abruptly Closes Stores as Workers Allege Unpaid Wages

After not receiving multiple paychecks, some of the chain’s employees have organized strikes.

Industrial Relations board finds Canadian Pacific Kansas City contravened anti-scab law

Workers represented by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers System Council 11 have been on strike since the end of May. The post Industrial Relations board finds Canadian Pacific Kansas City contravened anti-scab law appeared first on rabble.ca.

Production Assistants on ‘Chicago Fire’ and ‘Chicago Med’ Ratify Union Contract

Production assistants on “Chicago Fire” and “Chicago Med” have voted to ratify their first union contract, as part of a broader unionization campaign for P.A.’s. The deal covers 26 employees at “Chicago Med” and 35 at “Chicago Fire,” both of which are produced by Universal Television. The workers will be represented by LIUNA Local 724, []

Minimum wage gap narrows, but breakthrough still elusive

Labor and business representatives narrowed their differences over next year's minimum wage after submitting a second round of revised proposals, but negotiations remained deadlocked with the two sides still 1,540 won (1) apart. The labor side proposed raising the hourly minimum wage to 11,900 won, while the employer side offered 10,360 won during the Minimum Wage Commission’s meeting at the government complex in Sejong on Tuesday. Although the latest proposals narrowed the gap from the initial

California state workers fight Newsom’s return-to-office mandate

Gov. Gavin Newsom is barreling ahead with forcing California state workers back to the office, flatly rejecting calls to soften a return-to-work mandate that unions warn could trigger a “mass exodus” of employees. Starting July 1, roughly 100,000 state workers will be required to report to the office or the field four days a week, []...Click to read more