Shawn Fain is not a typical president of the United Automobile Workers union.Mr. Fain recently declined a symbolic handshake with the chief executives of the major Detroit automakers, a gesture […]
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Back to news homeYellow, the Freight-Trucking Company, Declares Bankruptcy
Three years after receiving a $700 million pandemic-era lifeline from the federal government, the struggling freight trucking company Yellow is filing for bankruptcy.After monthslong negotiations between Yellow’s management and the […]
UPS Reaches Contract Deal With Teamsters to Head Off Strike
United Parcel Service announced Tuesday that it had reached a tentative deal on a five-year contract with the union representing more than 325,000 of its U.S. workers, a key step […]
UPS Contract Talks Go Down to the Wire as a Possible Strike Looms
Barely a week before the contract for more than 325,000 United Parcel Service workers expires, union and company negotiators have yet to reach an agreement to avert a strike that […]
Looming UPS Strike Spurs Some Companies to Rethink Supply Chains
Kathryn Keeler and her husband, Stuart de Haaff, own an olive oil company in the hills of central California. The couple spend their days harvesting olives, bottling the oil, labeling […]
Supreme Court Backs Employer in Suit Over Strike Losses
The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that federal labor law did not protect a union from liability for damage that arose during a strike, and that a state court should […]
Some Rail Workers, Seeking Sick Days, Say Biden Betrayed Them
As the legislative representative for his local union, Gabe Christenson, a longtime freight railroad conductor, worked hard to help elect Joe Biden president in 2020. “I have shirts from me […]
Reno Is Booming. Some Workers Feel Left Behind.
Companies are flocking to the Nevada city, but the rising cost of housing, gas and groceries is making daily life a struggle for many who work there. Read More
Amazon Workers on Staten Island Vote to Unionize
Workers at Amazon’s massive warehouse on Staten Island voted by a wide margin to form a union, according to results released on Friday, in a stunning win for a campaign […]
Amazon Warehouse in Alabama Set to Begin Second Union Election
During the first union election at Amazon’s Bessemer, Ala., warehouse, early last year, organizers largely avoided visiting workers at home because Covid was raging and few Americans were vaccinated.The Retail, […]