Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/bargaining/page/13/)
U.S. Foodservice made its final offer Thursday to 275 members of Teamsters Local 120, but union leaders anticipate workers will vote Sunday to reject the offer and authorize an immediate strike.
After almost three weeks of negotiations with NFL team owners and the assistance of a federal mediator failed to result in a fair, new collective bargaining agreement, the NFL Players Association Friday renounced its status as a union in order to block a lockout by the owners.
Tom Keegel, 68, secretary-treasurer of the Teamsters and longtime former head of its Twin Cities-based Joint Council 32, will retire at the end of his term this year after a 52-year union career.
SEIU Healthcare Minnesota members at HealthPartners clinics voted Thursday to overwhelmingly ratify a new three-year contract, the union announced.
Negotiations began Thursday between United Food & Commercial Workers Local 1189 and a group of St. Paul grocers, including Cub, Jerry’s Foods, Rainbow Foods, Kowalski’s, and Festival Foods, the union announced.
Contract talks are more than a month away, but east metro grocery workers sent a strong message Thursday about maintaining good wages, health care and retirement security.
One of the nation’s three postal unions, the Rural Letter Carriers, said it would head for mandatory arbitration after talks with the U.S. Postal Service broke down Nov. 15. Meanwhile, another, the Postal Workers, extended the talks until Dec. 1 in hopes of reaching a new contract.
Seventeen warehouse and delivery workers at St. Paul-based Anchor Paper went on strike at 5 p.m. Tuesday after voting to reject the company’s final contract offer.
Union broadcast technicians, locked in negotiations with Twin Cities Public Television (TPT) since February, rallied with supporters downtown St. Paul on Friday, calling on management to settle a fair contract that protects full-time jobs at the station.
This month marks the one-year anniversary of the start of contract negotiations between LSG Sky Chefs, the world’s largest airline catering company, and UNITE-HERE, the union representing 6,600 Sky Chefs employees nationwide.