Unionization Vote News Today

glad to be here im griff jenkins and this is "americas newsroom." cheney is one of 10 house republicans who voted to impeach the former president and she conceded early last night and gave a concession speech comparing herself to abraham lincoln. rich edson kicks things off with us from the teton village in wyoming. >> good morning, griff. also in that speech she compares the times and divisions of the united states today to the divisions of the civil war back in the 1860s. congresswom...

Employees at the Starbucks on Grant Creek Road in Missoula recently voted to unionize.

"We want a say in decisions that affect our livelihoods and contractually protected benefits to give us the peace of mind needed for a sustainable work-life balance."

Also, Birmingham launches an initiative to support local black-owned businesses, and more. 

Finally Something Amazon Can Be Proud Of: A Unionization Vote Photo: Jim Watson (Getty Images) At long last, Amazon has a unionization vote on its hands, the first and only since 2014. Today, 5,800 Alabama warehouse workers have been sent mail-in ballots and can begin voting on whether to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU). If they vote in favor, RWDSU will be the first union to gain a foothold in the nation’s second-largest employer, a company that’s famously bee...

Succeeds in getting upmc to do that, then the sciu thinks it can get a lot more workers to sign authorization cards and the next step would be to hold the unionization vote. i think thats at least a few months away and maybe even longer. >> the employee free choice act would play really big here if that were ever enacted. this as i see it is a classic example of that. do you agree? >> i think it certainly would be easier to unionize with cards than with an election. >> okay. steve greenhouse, "n...

Essentially by suggesting that volkswagen was going to announce in the coming weeks that it would manufacture a new mid-sized suv at this plant if only the unionization vote failed. and the union has said that was improper interference, he had no business saying that and it was not true. now, theyre asking for another vote. there is talk of pushing for another vote or a do-over. do you think that is likely? >> well, you know, they may decide to do that. senator corker certainly has the right to ...

Essentially by suggesting that volkswagen was going to announce in the coming weeks that it would manufacture a new mid-sized suv at this plant if only the unionization vote failed. and the union has said that was improper interference, he had no business saying that and it was not true. now, theyre asking for another vote. there is talk of pushing for another vote or a do-over. do you think that is likely? >> well, you know, they may decide to do that. senator corker certainly has the right to ...