Labor News

The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA this week asked for an exemption from Trump's Entry Ban Executive order for flight crew.

AFA-CWA President Sara Nelson, in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kelly, said some of her members hold passports from countries affected by the ban and could run into trouble despite having legal status to enter the U.S. working for the airlines.

The letter also requests a meeting with Kelly to "address operational issues" at the airports created by the ban.

Education International - representing more than 32 million education employees in 170 countries and territories - is condemning Trump's immigrant travel ban order.

Education International says Trump's order defies important democratic values, is discriminatory and violates international standards protecting the rights of immigrants and refugees.

Sixty percent of Americans like labor unions, according to a new Pew research poll. Three-quarters of people 18-29 years old approve of labor unions.

The poll shows 76% of Democrats approving of labor unions. Even 55% of young Republicans say they like unions.

But while unions enjoy 60 percent public approval, the Pew poll found just 44% of Republicans overall approve of unions.

30,000 AFSCME members are voting to authorize a strike in Illinois. AFSCME also says it's headed back to court to oppose an action by the Illinois Attorney General.

That motion from Democratic AG Lisa Madigan would dissolve a preliminary injunction won by AFSCME that makes sure state workers keep getting paid despite the state budget standoff.

Three trucking companies are being sued by the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry for wage theft.

The related companies allegedly committed the wage theft by failing to pay 95 workers a total of $524,000. Lakeville Motor Express abruptly shut it's doors after a shift in November.

Greg Davitt of Teamsters Local 120 - one of the workers who lost wages - told Workday Minnesota that the trucking companies being sued shut down fast with no advance notice. 

After decades of political attacks against labor unions the percentage of U.S. workers in unions in 2016 dropped to 10.7 percent of the workforce.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that all told 16.3 million American workers are covered by union collective bargaining contracts.

As the new administration begins, immigrant workers around the country are fearful that President Donald Trump will follow through with his campaign pledges to deport millions of members of our unions and our communities and that he also will strip away basic protections for immigrants who were brought to our country as children.

The New Hampshire state government is among the latest Republican controlled state governments to move against worker rights.

Legislation targeting union contracts requiring dues payments has gotten state senate approval in New Hampshire.

Dish Network is being ordered to reinstate 18 union represented workers and to rescind unilateral changes in terms and conditions of employment at two sites in Texas.

The National Labor Relations Board says Dish Network prematurely declared an impasse in collective bargaining to impose its conditions on the workers.

The NLRB Administrative Law Judge decision requires Dish Network to make the workers whole for any losses they incurred during the changes imposed on them by the company. That includes back pay.

"Puzder has got to go!"  

Fast food workers and their supporters will rally and protest in thirty U.S. cities Thursday protesting the nomination of Andy Puzder as Labor Secretary.

The Fight For $15 workers movement says "under Puzder’s tenure as CEO, Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s have been hit with more federal employment discrimination lawsuits than any other major U.S. hamburger chain."

Fight for $15 says it's releasing a "major announcement" about Puzder's fast food company CKE as the protests unfold.