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Mondays school board meeting for the Adrian Public Schools board was its first in-person meeting in some time. The board met at Adrian High School.

Guggenheim Museum curators move to join a union The exterior of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, July 15, 2019. Conservators, curators and other staff members at the museum are seeking to join a union local affiliated with the United Auto Workers. Sara Krulwich/The New York Times. by Colin Moynihan (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- For decades there were no unions at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, but now its curators, conservators, editors and other employees are aiming to form the second ...

[co-author: Myles Moran*] On July 21, 2021, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or the “Board”) issued a 3-1 decision affirming its precedent that displaying banners and a large inflatable rat (“Scabby the Rat”) near neutral employers does not violate the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA” or “the Act”). This decision may come as a disappointment to many employers as the NLRB under the Trump administration had been making efforts to end what many felt was unlawful ...

Monday, July 26, 2021 On July 21, 2021, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or the “Board”) issued a 3-1 decision affirming its precedent that displaying banners and a large inflatable rat (“Scabby the Rat”) near neutral employers does not violate the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA” or “the Act”).  This decision may come as a disappointment to many employers as the NLRB under the Trump administration had been making efforts to end what many felt was ...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: A split Board concluded this week that a union did not engage in unlawful secondary activity under the NLRA when it stationed a 12-foot-tall inflatable rat—known all too well by employers as “Scabby the Rat”—and two 8-foot banners on the worksite of a neutral employer for the purpose of forcing the neutral employer to cease doing business with the primary employer with whom the union had a labor dispute. International Union o...

The new collective agreement will see pay raises over the course of the contract and other improvements. Social Sharing CBC News · Posted: Jul 14, 2021 8:18 PM AT | Last Updated: July 14 About 7,500 health care workers, including those at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax, have accepted a new contract. (Brian MacKay/CBC) Thousands of health-care workers in Nova Scotia have accepted a new collective agreement, which will see pay raises over the course of the contract and other improvements....

  VICTORIA -- A union that advocated successfully in 2007 for crane-operators to be certified is calling on local governments and the province of B.C. to require better safety precautions when the fixtures are put up or taken down. The call comes in the wake of Monday’s deadly crane collapse in Kelowna, the cause of which is still under investigation. Frank Carr, the business representative for the International Union of Operating Engineers local 115, shared his condolences for the five ...

Metro Detroit union offering free apprenticeship program Program run by Operating Engineers 324 Updated:  July 14, 2021 12:46 am Detroit union offering free apprenticeship program DETROIT – With college tuition rising, many are looking for alternatives. A Metro Detroit organization is helping people get on a career path. The program is run by Operating Engineers 324. The demand for people in skilled trade is high, and Operating Engineers said it will be opening its program in a few weeks. Fo...

Other Voices: Abandoned mines program should be reauthorized Frank Howard © Provided by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette In June 2020, an abandoned, underground coal mine collapsed beneath a portion of Belle Vernon. The collapse induced severe subsidence, rupturing underground utilities and impacting 14 homes. Residents were evacuated, and some could not return because the damage impacted their homes’ structural integrity. Within hours, officials from the Pennsylvania Department of E...

At least 127 Delta variant cases in Ontario linked to massive COVID-19 outbreak at Nunavut mine A major COVID-19 outbreak that has developed over the past two months at a mine in Canada’s far north has once again laid bare the disastrous consequences of the ruling elite’s “profits before lives” policy during the pandemic. The refusal to allow serious public health measures to impinge on the accumulation of corporate profits has resulted not only in scores of miners getting sick. It has ...