Indianapolis-area Kroger employees approve new labor agreement
The agreement covers more than 9,000 members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union who work at 71 Indianapolis-area Kroger stores.
The agreement covers more than 9,000 members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union who work at 71 Indianapolis-area Kroger stores.
Attorney Kathleen DeLaney said Roncalli High School has notified her client, Lynn Starkey, that her contract won’t be renewed for next school year because she's in a same-sex marriage.
The Indianapolis Teachers Society, an upstart group led by teachers who had lost faith in the Indianapolis Education Association, launched a push to replace the union earlier this year after IEA’s president stepped down amid allegations of financial mismanagement.
For the full year, productivity rose 1.3 percent, a small improvement from a 1.1 percent gain in 2017. It was the best showing since a 3.4 percent productivity surge in 2010.
Republicans argued the law will cost jobs in a state where statistics show more than 60 percent of residents live within 40 miles of a state border.
Papa John’s International Inc. is offering its employees tuition to Purdue University online classes—part of the beleaguered chain’s efforts to shift the narrative away from the missteps of its founder.
A state senator accused of having a conflict of interest over a bill he filed that seeks to eliminate the state’s child labor laws has essentially withdrawn the proposal from consideration this year.
The United Auto Workers union is accusing General Motors of violating a national contract by using temporary workers in Indiana instead of employing full-timers who were laid off from its factories.
Nearly 650 Indianapolis-area janitors represented by the Service Employees International Union work for just eight firms that clean downtown office buildings.
Nearly 50 demonstrators, including Democratic City-County Council members Zach Adamson and Duke Oliver, were issued written summons Thursday for violating a city ordinance and not complying with police.
Indiana’s labor-force participation rate—the percentage of the state’s population that is either employed or actively seeking work—rose to 65.1 percent in September. It remains ahead of the national rate of 62.7 percent.
Microsoft said Thursday that it will begin requiring its contractors to offer their U.S. employees paid leave to care for a new child.
Missouri voters delivered a resounding victory to unions Tuesday, rejecting a right-to-work law that had been passed by Republican state officials but placed on hold after organized labor petitioned for a referendum.
A divided U.S. Supreme Court said government employees have a constitutional right not to pay union fees.
The Indiana data is less bleak than the national average, which found a full-time worker would have to earn $22.10 on average to afford a two-bedroom rental.
A divided U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that employers can force workers to use individual arbitration instead of class-action lawsuits to press legal claims.
Members of the U.S. Supreme Court clashed sharply Monday over the right of public-sector workers to refuse to pay union fees, while the justice who will cast the deciding vote kept silent during an hour-long argument.
Union workers comprised 8.9 percent of Indiana's workforce in 2017, down from 10.4 percent in 2016.
The state’s rate has risen from 3 percent in June, when it narrowly missed a state-record low of 2.9 percent.
The union said Brett Voorhies was re-elected during its three-day convention that wrapped up Wednesday in Indianapolis.