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Microsoft Contract Worker Supplier Attracts Ire Of Union For Wrongfully Firing Laborers

In a Monday filing with the National Labor Relations Board, the United Brotherhood of Carpenters blamed the construction company, Dulles Drywall Inc, for terminating 47 employees helping build a Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT) facility in Virginia. Dulles Drywall terminated the workers because they mounted a work stoppage, fought for their dues, and tried to organize with the union, Bloomberg reports. The company also illegally required personnel to sign agreements saying they were independent con Read More...

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Biden to nominate Julie Su as next US labor secretary

President Joe Biden is nominating Julie Su, the current deputy and former California official, as his next labor secretary, replacing the departing incumbent, former Boston Mayor Marty Walsh. Su, a civil rights attorney and former head of California’s labor department, was central to negotiations between labor and freight rail companies late last year, working to avert an economically debilitating strike. If confirmed by the Senate, Su would also be the first Asian American in the Biden administration to serve in the Cabinet at the secretary level.

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