JULY BITS AND PIECES
CONGRESS DROPS PART OF TRUMP TAX BILL THAT HAD ENDED FEDERAL WORKER PROTECTIONS
Yielding to pressure, the House and Senate have dropped a piece of Donald Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill, signed into law July 1 that would have stripped new federal workers of traditional job protections. The provision would have forced new federal employees to give up their traditional job protections or take a big cut in their pay. One union official called the measure to force federal workers to pay for their civil service job protections “criminal extortion.”
Huffington Post, 5/22; Labor Press, 7/8
PHILLY CITY WORKERS STRIKE
As of this writing, some 9,000 Philadelphia municipal workers are out on strike after their union, AFSCME District Council 33, and the city failed to reach agreement on a new contract. The workers involved include sanitation, police dispatch, street maintenance, and water services with “mountains of trash” piling up in city streets.
UFCW AND 2 BIG WESTERN GROCRERY CHAINS REACH AGREEMENT
Grocery workers, represented by the United Food and Commercial Workers union, in Colorado and Southern California have reached tentative agreements with grocery chains Kroger and Albertsons, avoiding a strike. The union had authorized a strike in June. The agreement still has to be ratified by a vote of the union membership.
