Police Unions
The State Troopers Fraternal Association of New Jersey sued the state in Mercer County Court, claiming the state will endanger its members if they release names of officers involved in disciplinary violations.
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Changing Policing Means Taking on Police Unions
The fiery leader of Minneapolis’ police union has built a reputation of defying the city, long before he offered the union’s support to the officers charged in George Floyd’s death.
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Queer Activists Demand Inclusivity at Oakland Juneteenth Rally
A Juneteenth rally against police brutality and racism organized by a dockworkers union in Oakland, California, Friday morphed into a contentious debate about inclusivity after queer and transgender protesters accused organizers of excluding marginalized voices.
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Illinois Justices Rule Chicago Can’t Destroy Cop Misconduct Records
A Chicago police union’s collective-bargaining agreement requirement that the police department destroy all officer disciplinary records after five years is unenforceable because it conflicts with public policy and state records law, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
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Labor Group Loses Bid for Virus Safety Protections
The D.C. Circuit on Thursday rejected a lawsuit from the AFL-CIO claiming the Trump administration is not doing enough to protect workers during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Minneapolis Police Chief Takes on Union, Promises Change
The Minneapolis Police Department will withdraw from police union contract negotiations, Chief Medaria Arradondo said Wednesday, as he announced initial steps in what he said would be transformational reforms to the agency in the wake of George Floyd’s death.
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A black worker sued the International Brotherhood Electrical Workers Local 1 and the St. Louis Area Electricians Joint Apprenticeship & Training Committee in federal court, claiming a noose was hung at her work site and she was told “Muskrat Lives Matter.”
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DAs Demand Ban on Endorsements and Donations to Prosecutors by Police
A coalition of current and former district attorneys called on the American Bar Association and the California State Bar on Monday to pass an ethics rule prohibiting prosecutors from accepting political donations and endorsements from law enforcement agencies and police unions.
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Biden Nabs AFL-CIO Endorsement as Labor Targets Working-Class Voters
Former Vice President Joe Biden won the endorsement of the AFL-CIO, the country’s largest coalition of labor unions, on Tuesday, in a development that could help him in union-heavy swing states such as Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
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Minnesota Union Loses Appeal Over Strike Set Up by Kansas Branch
The Eighth Circuit ruled against a Minnesota chapter of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in a dispute over a strike against the world’s largest food distributor, finding a show of solidarity with another union branch was a breach of contract.
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Warren Joins NYC Workers on Virus Front Lines to Strengthen Protections
Joining with labor organizers and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren on Thursday in a virtual town hall, essential workers told the New York City Council that its response to the novel coronavirus should include a new Bill of Rights.
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Union Sues United Airlines Over Plans to Cut Workers’ Hours
United Airlines was accused in a lawsuit Tuesday of planning to reduce thousands of union workers to part-time status after accepting billions of dollars in federal Covid-19 relief funds.
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A federal court in New York dismissed a suit brought by the state’s largest union for nurses, which sought an order that would have required the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx to increase the availability of personal protective equipment and take other steps to mitigate the risk of nurses contracting Covid-19.
Read moreJudge Rejects Equal-Pay Claims by US Women’s Soccer Team
The U.S. Women’s soccer team’s gender discrimination lawsuit deflated Friday when a federal judge in Los Angeles granted U.S. Soccer Federation summary judgment, finding women earned more in cumulative pay and rejecting claims women would have earned more under the men’s team’s pay structure.
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Big Business Wants Immunity From Covid-19 Lawsuits
As companies start planning to reopen, business groups and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are trying to limit liability from lawsuits filed by workers and customers infected by the coronavirus.
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Writers Guild Antitrust Claims Against Talent Agencies Tossed
A federal judge in Los Angeles has tossed the bulk of claims by the Writers Guild of America accusing three Hollywood talent agencies of engaging in illegal packaging deals that undercut writers’ pay.
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The longtime head of the Tiverton, R.I. Local 833 of the National Education Association sued the district and its superintendent in federal court, claiming he issued a gag order and then fired her to retaliate for her speech about a distance learning plan during the Covid-19 epidemic.
Read moreUnion Says Bronx Hospital Failed Its Nurses Treating Coronavirus
“Right now, the hospital is like a war zone,” New York’s largest union for nurses said Monday, hitting Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx with a federal complaint over what it calls a systemic failure to keep workers safe during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read moreCovid-19 on Buses
A transportation workers union sued the Miami-Dade County Department of Transportation & Public Works in Miami-Dade County Court, claiming “multiple county transport employees have tested positive for Covid-19,” and the county is not properly sanitizing buses or providing workers with protective gear.
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Sixth Circuit Rejects Union Bid for Lifetime Retiree Benefits
Handing a loss to the United Auto Workers, the Sixth Circuit on Friday upheld a Michigan judge’s decision that over 4,700 retired Honeywell International employees are not entitled to lifetime health benefits from the company.
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