by Justin | Feb 16, 2022 | COVID-19, UAW Local 2865, University of California
Ending the mask mandate while COVID-19 cases remain common raised concerns for student academic employee union UAW 2865 members, according to UAW 2865 Berkeley recording secretary Samuel Chan. Vulnerable student employees, he added, would be harmed by the end of the...
by Justin | Jan 24, 2022 | COVID-19, Graduate Workers, Harvard Crimson, Harvard University, HGSU - UAW Local 5118
Harvard’s graduate student union presented University leaders with a list of grievances about the school’s updated spring Covid-19 protocols last week, calling for free high-quality masks and expanded testing. In a letter to administrators last Wednesday,...
by Justin | Jan 21, 2022 | Accident Fund, Blue Cross Blue Shield, COVID-19, MLive, President Joseph Biden
The federal vaccine mandate for businesses with 100 or more employees created riffs in the workplace before it could even be implemented. On Thursday, Jan. 13 the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the mandate for businesses but kept the healthcare mandate in place.While...
by Justin | Jan 10, 2022 | Autoworkers, COVID-19, Economy, Opinion, Washington Post
Manufacturing has weathered the biggest surge in workers quitting — a nearly 60 percent jump compared with pre-pandemic. No other industry has seen an increase like that. The reality is the sector no longer provides the good-paying jobs it once did. From 1976 to 2006,...
by Justin | Jan 7, 2022 | Blue Cross Blue Shield, COVID-19, UAW Local 2256
Two hundred and fifty people who worked for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and its affiliates are out of a job because they didn’t comply with its vaccine mandate. Amy Castinon of the UAW Amalgamated Local 2256, says seven union members in the Lansing branch...
by Justin | Dec 19, 2021 | COVID-19, Kohler, UAW Local 833
Sheboygan County’s largest employer has suspended its vaccine mandate, one day before it was to have taken effect. A mandate requiring all Kohler Company employees to be vaccinated by December 17th was announced in October, prompting demonstrations and the filing of a...
