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Chattanooga Times Free Press
By Dave Flessner
October 18, 2021
With more jobs than workers today, Tennessee labor unions say they are positioned to make needed gains for workers in wages, benefits and union representation. But the No. 2 labor leader in the country told AFL-CIO leaders in Nashville on Monday that Tennessee's right-to-work laws continue the South's history of trying to take advantage of workers and hurt their ability to make a fair wage. "Right to work is a direct descendant of Jim Crow and it should have no place in our society, much less in the state Constitution," AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Fred Redmond said during the opening of the Tennessee AFL-CIO annual convention on Monday. "Workers are fed up and America is taking notice of our collective action. Working people are waking up and understanding the value of labor unions. "
JOINING TOGETHER
Nurses strike at Allina Health clinic in Plymouth; ER, urgent care services temporarily closed
KSTP
By Ben Henry
October 17, 2021
A west metro emergency room and urgent care department are closed because of a strike. Fifty nurses who are part of the Minnesota Nurses Association and work at Abbot Northwestern’s WestHealth location are striking through Wednesday morning. The strike resulted in a temporary suspension of the location’s emergency and urgent care services.
Minnesota Could See the First Unionized Half Price Books Locations
Racket
By Jay Boller
October 18, 2021
Around 30 workers from HPB’s Roseville and St. Paul shops met with UFCW reps at George Floyd Square this past May Day, an apropos date if there ever was one. An organizing committee was formed, and the workers “slowly built power in secret,” Gutsche says. Last Thursday, workers let that secret out: More than 75% of the employees at each store had signed union cards.
Why Are Heaven Hill Distillery Workers On Strike?
Forbes
By Errol Schweizer
October 18, 2021
For over six weeks, 420 workers at the parent company of Deep Eddy Vodka, Elijah Craig, and Evan Williams Bourbon have been on strike over healthcare cost hikes, schedule changes and overtime cuts. Interview with Matt Aubrey, President of UFCW Local 23D, Bardstown, Kentucky.
Kellogg's strike continues in Omaha: 'I think it's going well so far'
3 News Now
By KMTV Staff
October 18, 2021
"I felt like our union has been super supportive, everybody has joined together way better than I thought,” said striker Frank Barton. “I mean, we're out here day in and day out and I think it's going well so far." Union members tell us their union, BCTGM, has left the door open for Kellogg’s to speak with them.
Kaiser Permanente Strike Votes Expand to Hawaii and Northern California
KPVI
By United Nurses Associations of California / Union of Health Care Professionals
October 18, 2021
More than 1,500 pharmacists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, and speech-language pathologists from California to Hawaii—represented by UNAC/UHCP in negotiations for their first union contracts with Kaiser Permanente—will cast strike authorization votes October 24-28. The results will be announced on October 29. On October 11, in ongoing negotiations for an existing national contract, more than 20,000 UNAC/UHCP members in southern California Kaiser Permanente locations headed toward a strike against the health care giant in an overwhelming authorization vote.