Next April, 1,200 delegates from the Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) will gather in Las Vegas for the union’s international convention. A…
Members of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees, who build and maintain tracks and bridges, have voted down a national tentative…
GEICO insurance sales rep Lila Balali first started thinking about a union early in the pandemic. “I didn’t really know what a…
Just after 5 a.m. on Thursday, Marty Walsh tweeted that the railroad companies and the railroad unions had come to a tentative agreement, less…
Chipotle workers in Lansing, Michigan, formed the fast-food chain’s first recognized union in the United States, voting eleven-three on August 25 to…
Trader Joe’s workers in Minneapolis won their union in a landslide vote August 12, making theirs the second store to go with…
Eleven hundred workers who manufacture agricultural and construction equipment for CNH Industrial in Burlington, Iowa, and Racine, Wisconsin, have been on strike since May 2
Starbucks has responded to the organizing campaign by firing a growing number of union supporters over spurious charges
Tens of thousands of UAW members have just voted to upend the status quo
One hundred members joined the November 8 picket, including members from each of the eight UAW locals at Deere in Iowa and Illinois
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