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The bill would remove checks on corruption and government spending, critics say

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.

The Communications Workers of America finished negotiating with AT&T on wage increases for 13,000 workers.

As workers at major companies increasingly move to unionize, the political environment for labor couldn't be more ripe. Perhaps nowhere is that more accurate than at the National Labor Relations Board, the agency that enforces the country's labor laws and oversees union elections.

Tech companies cannot promise to build the future while vast numbers of their workforces are trapped in 1972..

Of Texas’ 254 counties, 27 no longer have a newspaper. Loss of local news coverage has been associated with higher levels of mistrust, misinformation and malfeasance. Only California and New Jersey have lost more newspaper journalists, relative to population.

The Communications Workers of America union said it scored a new deal for AT&Ts 13,000 unionized wireless employees that will raise wages by 15%. #pressrelease

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

But she faces an uphill battle.

AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler put out a statement Friday describing the decision as “a devastating blow to working women and families across this country.”