Luke Hinrichs is a student at Harvard Law School.
In today’s news and commentaries, Boeing union workers reject new labor contract, extending strike; Miami-Dade public school system workers overwhelmingly vote to recertify United Teachers of Dade union representation; and auto part workers at Julian Electric commit to keep organizing after losing union election.
Boeing machinists represented by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers union voted 64 percent against a new labor deal that included 35 percent wage increases over four years. The rejection extends a more than five-week strike that has brought Boeing’s aircraft production to a halt. Over 32,000 Boeing machinists remain on strike.
In an unprecedented union vote, Miami-Dade teachers elected to retain their current union representing with 83 percent of the voting members selecting to recertify with the United Teachers of Dade (UTD). The vote is a sharp rebuke to a group called the Miami-Dade Education Coalition—funded by the anti-union, conservative Freedom Foundation—that challenged the UTD as the bargaining agent for the Miami-Dade county’s public school teachers. The challenge and recertification vote comes after Florida Governor Desantis signed a law, SB 256, last year aimed at pressuring unions by requiring certain public workers to pay dues and requiring certain unions to recertify if the number of dues-paying members drops below 60 percent of those eligible to join. At the same time, the law makes it harder for employees to pay dues by banning automatic dues deductions from paychecks and imposing stricter recruitment standards. Despite the union busting efforts, UTD will continue to represent the over 30,000 teachers and other employees of the Miami-Dade public school system.
Auto part workers at Julian Electric, a plant in Lockport, Illinois that supplies parts to major automobile companies, lost their union vote to join the United Auto Workers. With a final tied vote of 170 to 170, the National Labor Relations Board defers to the company and the unionization effort was defeated.
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September 16
In today’s news and commentary, the NLRB sues New York, a flight attendant sues United, and the Third Circuit considers the employment status of Uber drivers The NLRB sued New York to block a new law that would grant the state authority over private-sector labor disputes. As reported on recently by Finlay, the law, which […]
September 15
Unemployment claims rise; a federal court hands victory to government employees union; and employers fire workers over social media posts.
September 14
Workers at Boeing reject the company’s third contract proposal; NLRB Acting General Counsel William Cohen plans to sue New York over the state’s trigger bill; Air Canada flight attendants reject a tentative contract.
September 12
Zohran Mamdani calls on FIFA to end dynamic pricing for the World Cup; the San Francisco Office of Labor Standards Enforcement opens a probe into Scale AI’s labor practices; and union members organize immigration defense trainings.
September 11
California rideshare deal advances; Boeing reaches tentative agreement with union; FTC scrutinizes healthcare noncompetes.
September 10
A federal judge denies a motion by the Trump Administration to dismiss a lawsuit led by the American Federation of Government Employees against President Trump for his mass layoffs of federal workers; the Supreme Court grants a stay on a federal district court order that originally barred ICE agents from questioning and detaining individuals based on their presence at a particular location, the type of work they do, their race or ethnicity, and their accent while speaking English or Spanish; and a hospital seeks to limit OSHA's ability to cite employers for failing to halt workplace violence without a specific regulation in place.