The United Auto Workers Union announced today it is dropping its efforts to force a new unionization efforts at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., reports the New York Times. After the union lost a vote at the plant in February, it asked the National Labor Relations Board to hold a new election, claiming the fairness of the initial election had been compromised by threatening statements from elected officials. The Atlanta regional director for the N.L.R.B. was set to begin hearings today in Chattanooga to collect evidence on this issue. According to Bob King, the U.A.W.’s president, the union decided to drop the appeal based on concern that the N.L.R.B. adjudication process could drag on for months or even years.
The Supreme Court has declined to grant certiorari to an appeal by Florida governor Rick Scott over his plan to require random drug testing for thousands of state workers, according to the Washington Post. More information on the case can be found here and here.
The Wall Street Journal reports on a production slowdown staged by workers at a shoe manufacturing plant in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangxi, escalating a labor dispute over the distribution of social-insurance payments. The manufacturer, Yue Yuen Industrial Holdings, Ltd., is also facing worker protests over social-insurance payments at its Dongguan plant, in southern China. Yue Yuen makes shoes for Adidas and Nike.
Local government officials in the southern Indian state of Karnataka have ordered Toyota Motor Corp. and its striking workers to end their labor dispute and resume normal operations, according to the Wall Street Journal. Toyota locked out workers on March 16, claiming they were disrupting production. The company lifted the lockout last week, but most workers refused to return to work, prompting Toyota to bring in non-union replacement workers. The striking workers are demanding more holidays, company housing, raises, and reinstatement of suspended workers.
A union representing graduate student-workers across the University of California system has reached a tentative agreement with UC management over the establishment of all-gendered bathrooms and lactation stations, reports the San Diego Free Press.
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July 8
In today’s news and commentary, Apple wins at the Fifth Circuit against the NLRB, Florida enacts a noncompete-friendly law, and complications with the No Tax on Tips in the Big Beautiful Bill. Apple won an appeal overturning a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decision that the company violated labor law by coercively questioning an employee […]
July 7
LA economy deals with fallout from ICE raids; a new appeal challenges the NCAA antitrust settlement; and the EPA places dissenting employees on leave.
July 6
Municipal workers in Philadelphia continue to strike; Zohran Mamdani collects union endorsements; UFCW grocery workers in California and Colorado reach tentative agreements.
July 4
The DOL scraps a Biden-era proposed rule to end subminimum wages for disabled workers; millions will lose access to Medicaid and SNAP due to new proof of work requirements; and states step up in the noncompete policy space.
July 3
California compromises with unions on housing; 11th Circuit rules against transgender teacher; Harvard removes hundreds from grad student union.
July 2
Block, Nanda, and Nayak argue that the NLRA is under attack, harming democracy; the EEOC files a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by former EEOC Commissioner Jocelyn Samuels; and SEIU Local 1000 strikes an agreement with the State of California to delay the state's return-to-office executive order for state workers.