Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/bargaining/page/7/)
More than 175 union members and Bloomington residents crammed into the City Council chambers Monday night, urging the council to quit wasting taxpayer money, quit using stall tactics, and start negotiating a contract with 23 parks workers, who have been waiting since April to have the city recognize their decision to join AFSCME.
United Food & Commercial Workers Local 1189, which represents workers at Rainbow Foods stores in the Twin Cities east metro, has reached a tentative contract agreement with the grocery chain.
While Hostess Brands is trying to scapegoat the workers and members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers, the real cause of the company\’s collapse can be traced back to its crony capitalism and consistently poor management, the union said.
Musicians locked out of their jobs by the Minnesota Orchestra rallied with patrons, union leaders and other supporters in downtown Minneapolis Thursday, as the lockout of 95 members of Twin Cities Musicians Union Local 30-73 entered its second month.
The Minnesota Orchestra has locked out musicians for refusing to accept pay cuts of up to 50 percent. The musicians, represented by the Twin Cities Musicians Union, wonder why the Orchestra is spending millions on a new building yet undercutting the quality of future performances.
Workers at the Co-op Partners Warehouse (Wedge Co-op) have ratified a three-year agreement which included $1.50 wage increase over the life of the agreement and paid holidays, their union announced.
The Musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra issued a statement to “express our deepest regret to our loyal audience members” that management has cancelled all concerts through Nov. 25. The Orchestra has locked out the musicians after failing to reach a contract agreement over the weekend.
Citing the threat to the players’ health and safety – a threat which violates their own contract with the league – the NFL Players Association formally asked league owners to end the NFL’s lockout of the regular referees. Incompetent “replacements” are running – and ruining – games, NFLPA said.
Sun Country pilots recognize the importance of staying on schedule. They want management to bring that same sense of urgency to negotiations on a new contract with their union, the Air Line Pilots Association.
Delegates representing 25,500 Chicago teachers and 4,000 paraprofessionals ratified a tentative 3-year contract, ending a nine-day strike forced upon the Chicago Teachers Union, AFT Local 1, by Mayor Rahm Emanuel.