The agreement is expected to cost an estimated $23 million and stems from a labor complaint filed in February by the largest union representing state employees.
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Meet one of America’s newest union leaders: Brooke Shields
Brooke Shields became president of the 51,000-member Actors’ Equity Association this year, with plans to use her celebrity to put money into actors’ pockets.
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U.S. port workers meet on wages, issue fresh strike threat
Negotiations on a labor contract covering six of the 10 busiest US seaborne trade gateways have been stalled since June.
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After starting new year without a contract, Portland ed techs call for higher wages
Dozens of education technicians filed into Tuesday night’s meeting of the Portland Board of Education, after months of collective bargaining negotiations have failed to render a new contract. The previous contract expired last week.
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Video game performers protest unregulated AI use at Warner Bros. Studios
The protest marks the first large labor action since game voice actors and performance workers voted to strike last week.
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Microsoft’s World of Warcraft development workers are unionizing
The Game Makers Guild is the first wall-to-wall union seen at Activision Blizzard and the largest of this kind at a Microsoft-owned studio to date.
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Supreme Court sides with Starbucks, makes it harder for labor board to win court orders
The Supreme Court has made it harder for the federal government to win court orders when it suspects a company of interfering in unionization campaigns in a case that stemmed from a labor dispute with Starbucks.
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Watchdog investigates UAW president, accuses union of being uncooperative
The monitor says the union has made employees and senior leaders available for interviews but hasn’t provided relevant documents in a timely manner.
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Union push pits the United Farm Workers against a major California agricultural business
A battle is underway in California between a unit of the Wonderful Co. and the country’s biggest farmworker union over how a group of workers organized under a recently enacted labor law.
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Graduate workers’ union bemoans pace of negotiations with UMaine System
Six months into bargaining, administrators and the union have reached tentative agreements on just two of 22 contract issues.