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House food service workers, with support from Democratic lawmakers, called for a boycott of some Capitol complex restaurants Thursday — demanding that incoming dining subcontractors maintain the previous union-negotiated base pay and benefits.
President Donald Trump fired National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox in an unprecedented personnel move that prevents the board from deciding cases and appears to violate federal law.
Trump’s partisan purge of Democratic NLRB officials in the late hours of Monday targeted Wilcox, the first Black woman to serve on the board. General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo was terminated as well.
A group of pro-union US lawmakers is asking US President Joe Biden for a “strong repudiation” of Nippon Steel Corp.’s proposed acquisition of United States Steel Corp., saying the deal raises serious concerns as a threat to the viability of American steel production.
As a top transportation union seeks to organize JetBlue mechanics and dispatchers, it has won backing from 160 members of Congress, who have charged the carrier with interfering in the effort.
“It has come to our attention that there have been instances of anti-organizing interference at JetBlue from management,” the Congressional Labor Caucus said Wednesday, in a letter to JetBlue CEO Joanna Geraghty. “As required by law, unionization efforts must be permitted to occur free from interference.”