Federal labor officials are expected to begin counting the votes Thursday or Friday in a closely watched union election by Amazon.com Inc. workers in Bessemer, Alabama, who are seeking to become the first company employees […]
“In the 1930s and 40s, a big upswing in union organizing in the United States was marked by successful campaigns at high-profile companies like General Motors, Ford, US Steel and AT&T,” writes Eli Rosenberg in The Washington Post. […]
Writers for the ABC game show The Chase have ended their strike after the show’s producer ITV America has settled the dispute with the Writers Guild. Scribes on the quiz show, which features a team of contestants competing […]
“Fifty-three years ago, a racist White man killed the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis,” writes Peter Cole in The Washington Post. “King’s presence there was no coincidence. The city’s predominantly Black sanitation workers were on […]
In a new interview with Yahoo Finance, US Labor Secretary Marty Walsh suggested the results of a historic union vote at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama are imminent. He also objected in general terms to anti-union “intimidation” […]
The company agreed to recognize the union after an arbitrator certified last week that a majority of the employees had signed union authorization cards. […]
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders challenged Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to explain reports of the retailing giant’s alleged aggressive anti-union tactics being used to prevent workers from organizing at US facilities. Bezos, who until his recent […]
“Millions of Americans,” write Nir Kaissar and Timothy O’Brien in Bloomberg Opinion, “work full time yet are still impoverished, their wages so low that they qualify for federal health care and food assistance programs even though many of them […]
Inspired by the high-profile campaign to unionize an Amazon.com fulfillment center in Alabama, workers in Baltimore, New Orleans, Portland, Denver and Southern California have begun exploring ways to form unions at […]
Labor leaders believe that a single high-profile success will reverberate across the country. There are already signs that they may be right. The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union says it has received more than 1,000 inquiries from […]
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