Republicans are usually shouting that government should leave private businesses alone. However, in Texas, they want companies to follow the governor’s ban on vaccine mandates in the workplace. And now some airlines are refusing to comply. USA Today reports: “Two of the nation’s largest airlines – Southwest Airlines and American Airlines – said Tuesday they…
A stingy tractor company is getting nowhere with workers who refuse to be paid peanuts. The Quad-City Times reports: “As John Deere union workers mull their first strike since 1986, some report dissatisfaction with working conditions and their union representation. They also say they feel they are empowered by the company’s high profits and a…
Workers are fed up with their employers so much that they are quitting in record numbers. CNBC reports: “Workers left their jobs at a record pace in August, with bar and restaurant employees as well as retail staff quitting in droves, the Labor Department reported Tuesday. Quits hit a new series high going back to…
Mass raids on immigrant workplaces have come to an end. NPR reports: “Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents will no longer conduct mass raids on workplaces where undocumented immigrants are employed, according to a new order by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The real problem, Mayorkas said in a memorandum released Tuesday, are ‘exploitative employers,’ not unauthorized…
Union workers have rejected a tentative agreement with Deere & Co. Reuters reports: “A majority of Deere & Co workers voted against a six-year labor contract that was tentatively agreed with the United Auto Workers (UAW) earlier this month, the U.S. tractor maker said on Sunday. The deal over wages and employee benefits would have covered…
From the website of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union: On October 5, 1,400 BCTGM members at Kellogg’s cereal plants in Battle Creek, Mich. (Local 3G), Omaha, Neb. (Local 50G), Lancaster, Pa. (Local 374G) and Memphis, Tenn. (Local 252G) took a stand on the future of their workforce by going on STRIKE. Here…
Are CEOs out of touch with workers? Recent comments by a former executive suggests yes. Bloomberg reports: “Former Pepsi Co. Chief Executive Officer Indra Nooyi, one of few women of color to ever run a large public U.S. company, said she’s never asked for a raise and once turned one down during the financial crisis. ‘I’ve never, ever, ever…
A judge has ruled for a union in the Show Me State. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports: “An attempt by Gov. Mike Parson’s administration to break the union representing Missouri’s prison guards is illegal and must be stopped, a Cole County judge has ruled. In a scathing, 43-page decision, Circuit Judge Jon Beetem ordered the…
Office workers at a fast food chain are off to work in the actual locations serving customers. Hmmm, I wonder if that has anything to do with the company paying its restaurant workers an average of $9 an hour, according to Glassdoor.com. The Hill reports: “Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers is sending hundreds of corporate staff…
Workers at Kellogg are on strike over a variety of issues including pay and health care benefits. ABC News reports: “Work at all of the Kellogg Company’s U.S. cereal plants came to a halt Tuesday as roughly 1,400 workers went on strike, but it wasn’t immediately clear how much the supply of Frosted Flakes or…
