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S&P Downgrades Boeing’s Credit Rating at Strike Enters 4th Week
Yesterday, Boeing halted contract talks and withdrew a pay offer they previously made to the union. The hardball tactics came as S&P downgraded the credit rating of Boeing as the strike drags into the fourth week.
The union predicts that they have a long fight ahead.
"We're in this for the long haul and our members understand that," IAM 571 President Jon Holden told Reuters.
Asheville Nurses Win Historic Union Contract
In late 2020, over 1,600 nurses at HCA-owned Mission Hospital in Asheville voted overwhelmingly to unionize. After a bitter 3 year struggle for a first union contract, nurses finally won their contract just as the community begins to recover from the devastating effects of Hurricane Helene.
“The devastation Hurricane Helene brought to our region underscores how Mission being the best possible version of itself is more important than ever,” said nurse Huns Brown in a statement.
For details of the contract gains, check out the National Nurses Union website.
Chippendale Dancers Unionize in Vegas
Finally, in Las Vegas, Chippendale dancers are now unionizing. The show is a massive hit, but workers say they are treated as second class.
“The biggest issue that was surprising to me was health benefits, specifically, and sick leave,” cast member Freddy Godinez told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “There are performers there that have been with the show for seven years, one of them has been there 10 years, and there are no benefits offered for the performers”.
For more, check out the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
News & Links Elsewhere
- Cleveland-Cliffs' meeting with union, federal officials may be a sign U.S. Steel is still in play
- Harris to propose new Medicare home health care benefit for seniors
- Settlement designed to pay college athletes gets preliminary approval
- Teamsters union President Sean O'Brien torches Democratic Party on Fox News: 'They have f---ed us over'
- Call centre workers In El Salvador form the first industry union to improve working conditions
- Finally, 87% of eBay's trading card experts 'earn less than a living wage,' so the only thing left to do is go on strike
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