MUST READ
The Labor Department Seeks to Update Prevailing Wage Regulations
Government Executive
By Courtney Bublé
March 11, 2022
“Meanwhile, Liz Shuler, president of the AFL-CIO, said the White House and Walsh “continue to deliver wins for working people” as “today’s proposed amendments under the Davis-Bacon & Related Acts will modernize [and] strengthen prevailing wage laws to protect 1000s of workers on federal construction projects from rampant wage theft.”
LABOR AND ECONOMY
Biden Administration Pushes for Higher Construction-Worker Pay
The Wall Street Journal
By David Harrison
March 11, 2022
The new rules “will modernize and strengthen prevailing wage laws to protect thousands of workers on federal construction projects from rampant wage theft,” said AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler in a statement.
JOINING TOGETHER
Special Metals Union Worker's Strike Ends
WCHS
By Hannah Cline
March 13, 2022
After six months the Special Metals Strike In Huntington Ended Sunday. Union members voted in favor of the contract offered by the company by a final vote of 188 to 184. 450 Special Metals Union workers in total have been on strike since October 1st due to contract negotiations, at odds over matter including healthcare. The union vote was supposed to be Saturday, but it was pushed to Sunday night due to weather. The company and the union will work out when the workers will to go back to work soon.
Talks With Ralphs, Vons, Albertsons Stall; Grocery Workers Union Authorizes Strike Vote
NBC San Diego
By City News Service
March 11, 2022
The union representing grocery store workers in Southern California supermarkets said Thursday it has authorized a strike vote as contract negotiations with the owners of Ralphs and Vons/Pavilions/Albertsons have stalled. Bertha Rodríguez, the communications coordinator for United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 770, told City News Service the vote will take place between March 21 and March 26.
IN THE STATES
Face the Facts: Captive Audience Meetings and Pandemic Pay for Frontline Workers
NBC CT
March 13, 2022
We've seen protests for both higher wages and better benefits throughout the state and this week, the governor had a breakthrough with some of the unions for state employees. So where are they now? NBC Connecticut's American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) President Ed Hawthorne talks about the deal that's on the table and another measure that's being discussed.
Sharyle 'Shar' Knutson, former state AFL-CIO head, dies at 72
Star Tribune
By Janet Moore
March 12, 2022
Called a trailblazer, a pioneer and a fierce advocate for working people, Sharyle Jean "Shar" Knutson wasn't one to shrink from a challenge. As the first woman elected president of the Minnesota AFL-CIO in 2009, Knutson was a key player in the fight to increase the state's minimum wage and helped fend off attacks on organized labor. Along the way, she mentored men and women in the labor movement.