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News Articles: retail workers

The Home Depot store is seen in Philadelphia on Feb. 22. Home Depot workers in  the city could form the company's first unionized store.

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Home Depot workers in Philadelphia vote on whether to form 1st unionized store

More than 260 workers will be able to begin voting on Wednesday. Results are expected late Saturday.

November 02, 2022
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh

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  • Business

Starbucks union push spreads to 54 stores in 19 states

Starbucks workers at 15 additional stores are petitioning for a a union election, pushing to organize cafes across the country. In Buffalo, the first store to unionize is negotiating a contract.

January 31, 2022
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh
People walk by a hiring sign in a store window in New York on Nov. 17.

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How understaffed are stores? Smaller retailers feel the holiday-shopping strain

Large retailers have spent billions of dollars to woo workers. Smaller stores that can't do that expect staff shortages will lead to lost sales. They're asking shoppers to be patient.

November 27, 2021
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh
At any moment of this past decade, U.S. retail jobs have supported about 15 million workers.

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Retail Jobs Are Treated As A Temporary Bridge To Something Better. But Why?

At any moment, some 15 million Americans work in retail. Many stay for years. Now companies face a labor crunch, and workers wish these jobs were designed as durable careers.

September 27, 2021
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  • Alina Selyukh
People shop at a Macy's in New York this month.

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More Retail Workers Are Quitting Than Ever, But More Stores Are Opening Than Expected

The U.S. retail industry is setting records: workers quitting and workers hired. Wages are finally growing. And despite the pandemic devastation, brand-new stores are still opening.

August 26, 2021
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  • Alina Selyukh
Workers at an Amazon fulfillment center on Staten Island in New York City and across the U.S. have not been unionized. That could change in Alabama.

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  • Business

Amazon Warehouse Workers To Decide Whether To Form Company's 1st U.S. Union

Although the company has unionized workers in Europe, it has held off organizing efforts here. About 6,000 workers at an Amazon facility in Alabama can cast a mail-in ballot starting Feb. 8.

January 15, 2021
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  • Alina Selyukh
A worker pulls a pallet jack with plastic crates at an Amazon warehouse in Robbinsville, N.J. The company is facing its biggest labor battle yet with a unionization vote expected at a facility in Alabama.

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  • Business

Amazon Warehouse Workers In Alabama Plan Vote On 1st U.S. Union

A labor board hearing is hashing out how and when a vote might take place to form potentially the first U.S. union at one of America's largest employers.

December 18, 2020
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh
Some workers at Amazon warehouses such as this one in the Staten Island borough of New York City have been trying to organize, facing stiff opposition from the company. Amazon workers in Alabama have now petitioned to form a union.

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  • Business

Amazon Warehouse Workers In Alabama Petition To Unionize

Warehouse workers in Bessemer, Ala., notify federal labor authorities of plans to hold a unionization vote, teeing up a major labor battle at the retail giant known for its opposition to unionizing.

November 25, 2020
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh

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