The San Diego Union-Tribune has this report:
About 500 Teamsters yesterday struck the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of San Diego after four months of negotiations failed to achieve a new union contract. The key issue in the dispute is health care costs for workers, the union said.>
Yet another strike over health care costs.
A lawyer hired by a union to represent one of its members in an arbitration hearing cannot later be sued by the worker for malpractice because the federal Labor Management Relations Act effectively immunizes the lawyer from such a claim, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled.
The Legal Intelligencer has this report.
Last week, the NLRB handed down a decision reversing their decision in NYU holding that graduate students are “employees” at private universities (NLRA doesn’t cover state employers.)
The central rationale seems to be that the relationship between students and the univeristy is “educational” and not “economic.” (Does this problematize post-doc fellowship appointments, etc.? are professors on tenure-track “primarily economic” in their relationship vis-a-vis a university?)
LA Times reports labor contract talks between industry and labor broke down last weekend. At issue: internet software that allows customers to bypass the clerks.
The last port shutdown cost billions of dollars and has vast ripple effects.