Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/bargaining/page/11/)
The United Auto Workers and General Motors have reached a tentative contract agreement covering 48,500 employees, which the union said achieved some major goals, including significant investments and products for GM plants, creating good new U.S. jobs and bringing back to this country some overseas manufacturing.
United Transportation Union members have ratified a new national rail contract that includes a 17 percent wage increase over the next five years and improvements in health care, the union said.
Members of the Minnesota Newspaper Guild’s Star Tribune unit have voted to approve an 18-month contract extension, continuing a pay freeze.
Workers at Verizon who have been on strike since Aug. 7 will return to work Tuesday under terms of the previous contract while talks continue, unions announced.
Members of United Food & Commercial Workers Local 1189 protested at two Kowalski’s stores Wednesday after the St. Paul grocer dropped out of negotiations and imposed a contract that includes wage and pension cuts.
Contract talks resume this week between Twin Cities east metro grocery chains and the union representing 5,000 workers. But rallies are set for Wednesday outside Kowalski’s, which has refused to continue negotiations.
The people locked out by American Crystal Sugar have given decades of work and foregone numerous holidays and family events for the company. They share their views in this new video.
Company giveback demands that unions say would roll back gains of the last 50 years forced 45,000 Verizon workers on strike at midnight Sunday.
Nurses at Range Regional Health Services returned to work Thursday after participating in a three-day strike to protest alleged unfair labor practices by management.
The union representing 5,000 grocery workers in the Twin Cities east metro and several major grocery chains agreed to extend the contract that expired March 5 and will schedule further talks.