#labor-negotiations

#labor-negotiations

About 40,000 unionized University of California workers averted a strike Thursday after reaching a tentative deal with UC. They'll get raises and caps to healthcare premium costs. (LA Times, Daily Cal)

They called for a fair contract with enforceable safe staffing standards to ensure adequate nurse-to-patient ratios, stronger protections against workplace violence, greater respect for nurses' clinical judgment over artificial intelligence (AI) in patient care, and improved wages and benefits.

NewYork-Presbyterian nurses rejected a tentative agreement by an overwhelming margin Wednesday, voting to extend their strike - now 31 days running - against the hospital system. Their union, the New York State Nurses Association, said the unfair labor practice strike and bargaining will continue. Out of approximately 4,200 NewYork-Presbyterian nurses who were eligible to cast ballots, 3,099 voted to reject the deal and 867 voted to approve it.

By Tuesday, if the league and its players cannot come to terms on a new collective bargaining agreement, it will finally drop, crushing the Tempo's plans for a home opener on May 8 against the Washington Mystics at Coca-Cola Coliseum in downtown Toronto. The league has circled March 10 as the drop-dead date by which a new CBA must be reached.

The US and Israel launched a preventative targeted strike against Iran Saturday, with explosions reported in Tehran and other cities, and Iran said it plans to retaliate. Trump said in his State of the Union Tuesday that Iran's missiles are gaining the capability of reaching the US, which are already a threat to Europe.

The union has spent months building a citywide organizing apparatus it calls HEAT, and leaders say that level of readiness is meant to strengthen bargaining leverage ahead of the contract's July 2026 expiration. According to the Hotel and Gaming Trades Council, the union has appointed HEAT captains, assembled teams in every hotel and scheduled trainings so members can mobilize quickly if talks stall.

We just try to worry about ourselves, and the fallout happens after that. It's just, the work stoppage thing; we don't know if that's going to happen. Look, we aren't adding any more fuel to that fire. If that happens, it was always going to happen, and it's not going to happen just because of us.

At that point, they would have the right to require us to work in the office five days a week and to eliminate our contractually guaranteed three weeks of remote work per year. As we saw this fall: If the company can reduce our guaranteed remote-work days, they will. But when asked for data on how in-office work makes our news product, advertising and business operations better, the management side of the table was silent,

For our families and students, I want to be very clear. We are working really hard with our educators to prevent this strike,

The San Francisco Unified School District was all set to approve a contract to provide "ChatGPT EDU" to 12,000 users across the district at the Feb. 10 school board meeting. The order form was signed by the district's technology services officer on Jan. 22, and countersigned by OpenAI's head of education four days later. Then the district nixed it from the agenda. Why?

Many bus, trams and underground services in Germany will not be operating on Monday amid a nationwide strike by the trade union Verdi. Millions of employees and schoolchildren who rely on public transport will be forced to find alternative methods of getting to work or school, with wintry weather conditions adding to their problems. All 16 German states bar one, Lower Saxony, where employees have agreed not to strike for now, are to be initially affected by the industrial action, Verdi said.

"The current salary schedule is so low that thousands of LAUSD educators qualify as low-income for affordable housing," the union said in a recent statement. Thousands of teachers more "are barely getting by just above the median income, living paycheck to paycheck after decades working for the district," the union statement said.

Telluride Ski Resort has announced it plans to open Lift 1 on Monday, the first terrain it has opened since the ski patrol strike began on December 27. The Telluride Times reported that internal communications from Telski stated "contingency EMS and patrol staff" will be used to staff the opening. Unless an agreement is reached on Saturday or Sunday, these contingency workers will have to cross picket lines to staff the mountain.