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“Seven months ago if you asked me about a union I would’ve said, ‘I don’t know, cops have them?’” says Sarah Pappin, a shift supervisor at a Seattle Starbucks. But on June 6, she and her co-workers voted unanimously to join Starbucks Workers United, part of an upsurge of organizing by younger workers with little union experience that is breathing new life into the labor

None of the upstart unions has won a contract yet, Dan DiMaggio and Angela Bunay report. But there is a new sense of possibility among workers at some of the country’s biggest nonunion employers.  By Dan DiMaggio and Angela Bunay Labor Notes “Seven months ago, if you asked me about a union

Media labor union Communications Workers of America has sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission in support of Microsoft's purchase of Activision Blizzard.

Meanwhile, President Biden vows to be 'the most pro-union president' in American history.

As workers at major companies increasingly move to unionize, the political environment...

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A recent surge of U.S. labor organizing has spotlighted, above all, union campaigns at two high-profile corporations: Amazon and Starbucks. But a watershed union victory last month at an Apple store in Towson, Maryland, may set off a nationwide labor campaign that combines the massive corporate heft of a company akin to Amazon and the nationwide wave of union victories on display at Starbucks, escalating a monthslong spike in worker organizing even as ...

The Communications Workers of America, the largest communications and media labor union in the United States, has sent [...]

A union victory at a store last month may set off a series of victories, experts said.

Workers at an Apple store in Towson won national attention after becoming the first of the tech giant’s U.S. employees to unionize. Starbucks baristas in Baltimore’s Mount Vernon neighborhood were the first of the chain’s Maryland employees to win a union vote. But labor experts warn that those workers now face new hurdles in a process that's tilted in favor of employers.

Big tech companies offered new benefits to protect abortion access for their employees, but they haven’t made major product changes or taken outspoken stances against upcoming restrictions.