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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Several hundred workers at a Kellogg's plant that makes Cheez-Its won a new contract that delivers more than 15% wage increases over three years after 1,400 workers at the company's cereal plants went on strike for nearly three months last fall.

Amazon, union organizers face off again in Alabama | 2022-03-30 23:54:55

Centreville, Alabama Workers at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, cast final votes March 25 in a second historic attempt to win representation by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU). The workforce at the facility is majority Black and more than half female. According to RWDSU, around 6,100…

While workers on one floor of the building were evacuated, others were kept in the dark, according to the RWDSU.

Today is Friday.

Workers at a Staten Island, N.Y., Amazon facility will begin voting in person Friday on whether they want to unionize.

(Bloomberg) -- When a retail union targeted an Amazon.com Inc. warehouse in Alabama last year, organizers generally avoided provocation, holding rallies far from the facility and urging placard-carrying activists to stay off the company’s property.

Christian Smalls, an upstart labor leader hoping to unionize Amazon facilities in Staten Island, New York, has taken on an aggressive strategy against the e-commerce giant.

In the midst of an escalating war crisis and attacks on workers, critical questions of political perspective and the role of the unions must be seriously examined.

Workers at the New York City branch of REI, an outdoor clothing and equipment seller, voted overwhelmingly this week to join a union