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Detroit Casino Council reaches tentative deal for 5-year contract with Detroit casinos
Detroit Free Press
By JC Reindl
Nov. 17, 2023
A deal has been reached that could soon end Detroit casino workers' 32-day strike. The Detroit Casino Council, representing the 3,700 striking casino workers across five unions, announced Friday that they have a tentative agreement for a new five-year contract with the three Detroit casinos — MGM Grand, MotorCity and Hollywood Casino at Greektown. The workers will continue to strike until the agreement has been ratified. The ratification votes by each union are expected to happen "soon," the council said in a news release, although precisely how soon remained unclear.
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Detroit casino workers reach tentative deal with Detroit casinos
WDET
By Jenny Sherman
Dec. 17, 2023
After months of negotiations and 32 days on strike, the Detroit Casino Council has reached a tentative agreement for a new five-year contract with Detroit’s three casinos. UNITE HERE Local 24, one of the five unions representing the 3,700 casino workers on strike since Oct. 17, announced the tentative agreement with MGM Grand Detroit, MotorCity Casino, and Hollywood at Greektown Friday morning.
Metro-North and TWU settle contract dispute
Mid Hudson News
By Staff
Nov. 18, 2023
A tentative agreement has been reached between 600 members of the Transit Workers Union and Metro-North Railroad, officials announced on Friday. The pact affects train mechanics, inspectors, cleaners and cabinet makers and runs from September 1, 2019 to October 30, 2023. The TWU said associated union members will receive a 9.5 percent wage increase.
Workers at Tacoma Art Museum vote unanimously to unionize
Northwest Public Broadcasting
By Lauren Gallup
Nov. 17, 2023
To unionize, Tacoma Art Museum Workers United [TAMWU] needed the majority of its 26 workers to vote yes. After two days of voting in an election overseen by the Washington State Public Employment Relations Commission, the unanimous results came in Thursday evening — 26 in favor of unionizing. With the vote, the union will join the Washington Federation of State Employees, [AFSCME Council 28/WFSE] part of the nationwide American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, which represents some 10,000 cultural institution workers nationwide.
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Government says it will use trade pacts to advance worker rights internationally
People’s World
By Mark Gruenberg
Nov. 17, 2023
With that as a model, as Tai and Su pointed out, Biden’s executive order framework “will reshape how U.S. government agencies conduct international diplomacy by putting workers’ rights and standards at the center,” Federation President Liz Shuler said. “Across the globe, working people are united in our fight against growing corporate overreach and abuse, low wages, attacks on organizing, the absence of strong benefits, and poor working conditions. This new strategy is a major victory for workers everywhere and underscores workers’ rights are essential to our country’s national and foreign policy, and national and economic security.