In today’s day in age where you have to agree to terms and conditions to install an app on your mobile device or log into just about any website, we deal with contracts and agreements all the time, whether we realize it or not.

And if you have to sign a contract to buy a car, mortgage a house or something as simple as rent a movie from Redbox, why wouldn’t you want a contract covering and protecting your wages and working conditions?

Your employer has numerous contracts protecting their business. They’ve got contracts covering their vendors & suppliers, their lease or rent, their equipment. Virtually every aspect of their business is regulated to protect their interests. It makes sense for your employer to protect its interests, so why wouldn’t you want to do the same? (more…)

Jan 29, 2016 – Quest Diagnostics workers in San Diego voted to join UFCW Local 135. The workers join a growing movement of phlebotomist and lab technicians who have come together from the Northwest to the Southwest to raise standards in the health care industry. Workers wanted to join a union in order improve their jobs and workplace. Better wages, respect on the job, stable schedules, and vacation and sick days are some of the top priorities for workers. Negotiations for their first contract begins next month.

Quest Diagnostics is a leading diagnostics services provider in oncology and genetics. Quest Diagnostics annually serves one in three adult Americans and half the physicians and hospitals in the United States, and has 45,000 employees.  Given the company’s prominence, workers hope that through the growing power of their combined voice, Quest Diagnostics workers will be able to influence and improve standards for workers throughout the industry.

L135 Quest SignPhlebotomist and lab technicians across the Northwest and Southwest began voting to join the UFCW after a chance encounter with their unionized counterparts in Washington state. With the encouragement and support of their coworkers, these workers are coming together and finding their voice.

Source: www.ufcw.org

The United States is the only developed nation in the world that doesn’t offer paid family leave. What do we have to do to get it passed? Milla Jovovich, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Malik Yoba, Jemima Kirke, and many more weigh in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_1F5PtT9WE

LabCorp acquires Safe Foods — October 27, 2015 – Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings has acquired Safe Foods International Holdings LLC and its two operating companies, The National Food Laboratory and the International Food Network, for an undisclosed amount.

The National Food Laboratory provides pesticide residue analyses, among other services.

Read more: www.thepacker.com

LabCorp reportedly pursuing purchase of $1B UK-based testing firm — Nov 3, 2015 – Laboratory Corp. of America is reportedly among the bidders for an international life sciences testing company based in the United Kingdom and valued at more than $1 billion.

British news outlet Sky News reports that LabCorp (NYSE: LH) submitted a bid last week for LGC, the formerly state-run forensic analysis company that has expanded greatly since being sold by the British government in 1996.

Read more: www.bizjournals.com

Visit www.ufcw.org/WWsurvey to take the brief survey.

Speak Up Together! You can participate in a National Survey of Working Women to help focus on the issues important to hard-working women. Your thoughts and words will help inform the debate on what women want and bring to the table. (more…)

Intergenerational social mobility is strongly linked to union membership, according to a working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research, a non-profit research organization. (more…)

Oct. 26, 2015 – By Times-News — Health diagnostic testing company LabCorp, one of Alamance County’s largest employers, said Monday that its net earnings rose almost 50 percent during third quarter 2015. (more…)

Oct. 23, 2015 — CHARLESTON – A man is suing Laboratory Corporation of America after he claims he was discriminated against and wrongfully terminated. (more…)

Filed in Equal Pay, by Lisa Maatz on October 20, 2015 — The gender pay gap is real, and it hurts women and families. It’s not myth, it’s math. Did you know that in 2014, women working full time in the United States were paid on average just 79 percent of what men were paid? Even one year out of college, within the same major, field and hours worked, men already earn 7 percent more than women — and that gap almost doubles in 10 years even though women are more likely to earn a master’s degree. (more…)