Unions are having a resurgence. Retail giants like Amazon and Starbucks are just a couple of companies whose workers have voted to unionize.
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“Rather than focusing on our students, which is my highest priority at this time, I fear a significant amount of time and resources would be devoted to developing the collective bargaining infrastructure that the General Assembly failed to do."
Amazon has fired two employees with ties to the grassroots union that led the first successful U.S. organizing effort in the retail giant's history.
Amazon is ending its Covid-19 paid sick leave policy starting on Monday, the company said in a memo to employees this weekend that was shared with CNN Business.
NEW YORK — In the aftermath of their hard-won labor victory, Amazon workers in the New York City borough of Staten Island popped Champagne, cheered their victory and danced in celebration. But their jovial attitude will be tested by a company that seems likely to drag its feet to the bargaining table.
Employees at five Starbucks coffee stores in the Richmond area have voted overwhelmingly for union representation as part of a nationwide effo…
CHARLOTTESVILLE — More than four-fifths of Charlottesville city teachers are ready to form a union.
Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker enjoyed the "Vegas experience" on their wedding day.
For his entire presidency, Joe Biden has been avoiding acknowledging Tesla. At a White House event, Biden finally said Tesla's name. Why has P…
Players have voted to accept Major League Baseball's latest offer for a new labor deal, paving the way to end a 99-day lockout and salvage a 162-game regular season.
The agreement between the meat-packing giant an International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 822 covers more than 1,000 workers at the company’s Smithfield plant.
U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine met Wednesday with some Richmond-area employees of the coffee store giant Starbucks who are seeking to unionize, expressing support for that movement.
School districts around the country are still facing closures due to staff shortages. Some of those staff shortages will persist as more and m…
A tentative agreement was reached Friday after both parties worked towards a deal through the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.
A more than two-month-long lockout of about 95 union-represented employees at DuPont Co.'s Spruance plant in Chesterfield County has ended.
About 95 employees of DuPont Co.’s Spruance plant in Chesterfield County have been locked out of work by the company for more than a month after negotiations over a new union contract stalled.
About 95 employees of DuPont Co.’s Spruance plant in Chesterfield County have been locked out of work by the company for more than a month after negotiations over a new union contract stalled.
Newport News Shipbuilding’s biggest union will keep working after rejecting a contract offer — but if further negotiations don’t result in an agreement, United Steelworkers Local 8888 is talking about what a strike would involve. Union leaders outlined strike preparations to members Saturday, including advice on dealing with financial challenges of a walkout, available community resources and ...
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Newport News Shipbuilding and United Steelworkers Local 8888 have a tentative agreement on a new contract to replace the one that expired Sunday night. The new contract has a 60-month term, the union said. It provides for enhanced wages, with pay increases each year. It also would grant a $2,500 bonus. The contract also includes provisions to improve pensions and a curb on health care costs, ...
When my husband and I moved to Salem in 1983, our future was bright and endless opportunity was in front of us.
When my husband and I moved to Salem in 1983, our future was bright and endless opportunity was in front of us.
FORT LEE - The prolonged strike between barbers at Fort Lee and the contractor which employs them has finally come to its conclusion. The Contractor, Missouri-based Sheffield Barbers LLC, has agreed to a new collective bargaining agreement that will reinstate the pay rate barbers were making before the contractor began managing the shops in 2019. Barbers have historically made 53% of the price ...
After decades of abject somnolence, American labor seems to be stirring. Last week, 10,000 workers at 14 John Deere assembly plants walked off the job, the first strike at Deere in 35 years. And that was after rejecting a contract that had been negotiated by the United Auto Workers with a 5% raise in its first year. There's more. Some 1,400 workers at Kellogg's four Midwestern plants went on ...
An 11th-hour deal was reached, averting a strike of film and television crews that would have seen some 60,000 behind-the-scenes workers walk off their jobs.
A walkout would bring film and television productions across the country to a standstill and would be the biggest Hollywood labor dispute in more than a decade.