A federal appeals court on Friday said it will reconsider its recent decision that Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk violated federal labor law by posting on Twitter that employees would lose stock options if they joined a union. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans granted Tesla’s request to revisit the case…
US Appeals Court to Reconsider Decision on Elon Musk’s Tweet About Unions
Union Workers Make Safety Complaints at GM’s Electric Vehicle Plant
July 8, 2023
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Union workers at a General Motors electric vehicle plant have been complaining of safety issues. Workers at a GM Ultium electric vehicle plant confronted caught a defective battery on fire late last month, reported the Financial Times. According to the fire department in Lordstown, Ohio, the factory workers were able to put it out, with two people…
Los Angeles Times Cutting More Than 10 Percent of Newsroom
June 8, 2023
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The Los Angeles Times this week became the latest media organization to announce job cuts, saying it would terminate more than 10 percent of its newsroom. The paper is firing 74 newsroom employees, a spokeswoman confirmed via email to The Epoch Times on June 8. “We have made the difficult decision to undergo a reorganization…
Hundreds of Journalists Strike to Demand Leadership Change at Biggest US Newspaper Chain
NEW YORK—Journalists at two dozen local newspapers across the U.S. walked off the job Monday to demand an end to painful cost-cutting measures and a change of leadership at Gannett, the country’s biggest newspaper chain. The strike involves hundreds of journalists at newspapers in eight states, including the Arizona Republic, the Austin American-Statesman, the Bergen…
WestJet Offers Travel Incentives as Strike Threatens to Disrupt Long Weekend Flights
WestJet has told air travellers that it will offer a one-time fee waiver for changes or cancellations with a looming pilot’s strike that could start as of 3 a.m. ET on May 18. More than 1,900 WestJet and subsidiary Swoop airlines pilots and their union have threatened strike action as the two sides remain divided…
Public Service Union Says Weekend Bargaining Yields Progress on Wages, Job Security
OTTAWA—The union representing more than 100,000 striking public servants says it’s made some progress on wage demands and job security during weekend negotiations with the federal government. The Public Service Alliance of Canada says its bargaining teams negotiated late into Saturday evening and continued on Sunday morning, the 12th day of the strike. The federal…
How the PSAC Strike Could End, and How It Compares to Previous Strikes
As the strike by 155,000 workers of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) enters its third day, Canadians from coast to coast are wondering how long the strike might last, and how it could end. Two PSAC groups—a larger Treasury Board group of more than 120,000 workers across several government departments and a smaller group…
Doctors Union Asks Conciliation Service Acas to Help Break Deadlock Over Strikes
A British doctors union has asked the conciliation service Acas to broker talks with the government amid the continuing junior doctors’ strike over a bitter pay dispute. Junior doctors across England have entered the second day of their four-day strike, which is causing serious disruption to the National Health Service (NHS). It has been estimated…
Teachers to Strike Again as Union Rejects Government Pay Offer
Teachers in England are set to strike again in the following months as the largest teachers union overwhelmingly rejected the government’s pay offer. Strikes will go ahead on April 27 and May 2 unless Education Secretary Gillian Keegan can reach an agreement with the union before then, the National Education Union (NEU) said on Monday. Schools could…
Western Union to Open Money Transfers to Cuba From All 50 US States
Western Union will vastly expand a U.S. pilot program for money transfers to Cuba, it said on Thursday, opening retail locations across the 50 states and allowing for digital service through its website and mobile app. The company, among the globe’s top providers of such services, first resumed transfers on a limited basis to the…
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