California Dreaming: An NLRB Power Grab Meets A Rideshare Union Push
The California labor laboratory is at it again, both with an attempt to seize labor board jurisdiction and a new bill allowing rideshare driver unionization.
Read MorePosted by Kimberly Ricci | Oct 7, 2025 | Bargaining/Negotiations, Gig Economy, Labor Relations Ink, Labor Relations Insight, Legal, News, NLRB, SEIU, Trending, Unions
The California labor laboratory is at it again, both with an attempt to seize labor board jurisdiction and a new bill allowing rideshare driver unionization.
Read MorePosted by Kimberly Ricci | Sep 24, 2025 | Bargaining/Negotiations, IBT, Industry, Labor Relations Ink, Labor Relations Insight, Leadership, Legal, Logistics, News, Sean O'Brien, Strikes, Transportation, Trending, Union Leaders, Union Leaders, Unionized Company, Unions
The Teamsters recently marked the one-year anniversary of the Bigfoot Beverages strike by–weird flex, but okay–throwing a barbecue near the locally-owned, family-founded drinks distributor’s Oregon headquarters.
Read MorePosted by Kimberly Ricci | Aug 28, 2025 | Aerospace, Bargaining/Negotiations, IAM, Industry, Labor Relations Ink, Labor Relations Insight, Manufacturing, Shawn Fain, Trending, UAW, Union Leaders, Unionized Company, Unions
This month, the aerospace industry has been facing down work stoppage threats by two deep-pocketed unions.
Read MorePosted by Phillip Wilson | Aug 6, 2025 | AFSCME, Bargaining/Negotiations, CWA, Labor Relations Ink, Labor Relations Insight, News, RWDSU, SBWU, UFCW, Unionized Company
A first union contract generally takes at least a year to broker following an election.
Read MorePosted by Kimberly Ricci | Jul 30, 2025 | Bargaining/Negotiations, Industry, Labor Relations Ink, Labor Relations Insight, News, SEIU, Service Industry, Strikes, Trending, Union Organizing, Unionized Company, Unions, Workers United
SEIU’s trendy Workers United affiliate has been circling a California-based indoor climbing wall chain while now ratcheting up the intensity.
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