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News Articles: union

Members of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 732 gather outside MARTA to protest low pay and unsafe working conditions.

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Amid a federal security probe of MARTA, union workers seek safer working conditions

Recent assaults on Atlanta transit have drawn public attention to safety issues and MARTA employees are pushing for change.

June 29, 2026
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  • Amanda Andrews
APWU Georgia President Charles Boughton spoke about the television ads on April 22, 2026. Sarah Kallis/GPB News

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  • Politics

Postal service union launches television ads promoting mail-in voting

The integrity of Georgia elections has been questioned by President Donald Trump and others since 2020. Now the postal workers' union wants to restore voter confidence in voting by mail via the airwaves.  

April 23, 2026
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  • Amanda Andrews
The Writers Guild of America West building in Los Angeles on May 2, 2023.

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  • Arts & Life

Hollywood studios reach a tentative agreement with writers union

The Writers Guild of America went on strike for months in 2023 in a dispute with Hollywood studios. This year the union announced a new four-year contract after just a few weeks of negotiations.

April 05, 2026
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  • Neda Ulaby

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Delta Air Lines' shareholders are the latest group asking the company to allow employees to organize

Delta investor Amalgamated Bank filed a resolution with Delta's board of directors asking the company to adopt a noninterference policy as employees consider choosing union representation.

June 12, 2024
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  • Amanda Andrews and
  • Kristi York Wooten
A Cobb County School Bus.

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Workers at Georgia bus factory approve first union contract

Workers at the Bluebird bus factory in Fort Valley, Ga., have approved their very first union negotiated labor contract.

May 24, 2024
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
 Three of Willie Pye's childhood friends who he asked to witness his execution wait for their escort to execution site.

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Georgia Today: Murder charges for drug dealers bill; Execution moratorium ends; Anti-union bill

On the Thursday, March 21 edition of Georgia Today: State lawmakers want drug dealers to face murder charges in overdose cases; Georgia ended its pandemic era-moratorium on executions last night; and it could now be more difficult for some local employees to form a union in their workplace. 

March 21, 2024
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  • Orlando Montoya and
  • Jake Cook

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Congress members join calls for Delta Air Lines to stop union-busting efforts

Over 100 members of Congress have signed a letter to the Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian urging the company to not interfere with employees' efforts to form a union

February 15, 2024
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  • Amanda Andrews
 Pro-labor protesters gather outside the Georgia Capitol Jan. 30, 2024. Stanley Dunlap/Georgia Recorder

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Georgia Senate approves bill that aims to restrict the ways workers can form unions

Senate Bill 362 bars businesses that open shop in Georgia from receiving state incentives if they recognize labor unions, unless workers vote to unionize with a secret ballot.

February 09, 2024
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  • Ross Williams
Members of the United Campus Workers of Georgia gathered at the state capitol on Jan 30, 2024 to demand better pay and more funding across the university system.

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Georgia campus workers' union lobbies state legislators for better job conditions

Union members gathered at the Georgia Capitol this week to share a list demands from employees across the university system. They're focused on higher pay and funding for universities.

February 02, 2024
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  • Amanda Andrews
Goran Larsson, a cargo ship inspector, poses next to the Transport Workers' Union flag at the Malmo port on Nov. 7. Dockworkers are refusing to load or unload Teslas at this port and all others across the country.

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Swedish dockworkers are refusing to unload Teslas at ports in broad boycott move

Thousands of Swedish workers are rallying behind 120 Tesla mechanics. The workers are boycotting Teslas until the company signs a contract. Even postal workers may stop delivering mail.

November 17, 2023
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  • Danielle Kaye
People hold signs supporting Starbucks workers outside a Starbucks on New York's Upper West Side on Thursday.

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  • Business

Thousands of Starbucks workers go on a one-day strike on one of chain's busiest days

Workers at more than 200 U.S. Starbucks locations walked off the job Thursday in what organizers said was the largest strike yet in the two-year-old effort to unionize the company's stores.

November 16, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Workers form a picket line outside the Ford Motor Co. Kentucky Truck Plant in the early morning hours on October 12, 2023 in Louisville, Kentucky. This week, a majority of workers at the plant voted no on the tentative contract deal.

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UAW workers at major Ford and GM truck plants vote 'no' on record contract deals

Big 3 autoworkers are voting on the record contracts that emerged after the six-week auto strike. While the overall tallies so far favor the deals, a majority voted no at two major truck plants.

November 14, 2023
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  • Andrea Hsu
GM workers strike outside the General Motors Wentzville Assembly Plant in Wentzville, Missouri, on Sept. 15, 2023.

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  • Business

UAW reaches tentative deal with Chrysler parent Stellantis to end 6-week strike

The tentative deal — which needs to be approved by members — comes less than a week after the union struck a similar deal with Ford. Meanwhile, the union is expanding its strike against GM.

October 28, 2023
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  • Camila Domonoske
Waffle House workers in South Carolina walked out of work on strike July 8, 2023. Now Georgia waffle house employees are also demanding better working conditions.

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  • News

Georgia Waffle House employees begin organizing for better working conditions

Waffle House workers in Georgia are the latest group to demand better working conditions and fair pay. Local organizing is being led by the Union of Southern Service Workers.

October 05, 2023
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By:
  • Amanda Andrews
Panelists (from left to right) Dr. Robert Woodrum, Deborah Scott, Eric Richardson, and Dr. Maurice Hobson speak at the opening of the Fighting for Freedom labor exhibit on  September 28, 2023.

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  • History

Georgia State exhibit explores connected histories of labor and civil rights movements in the South

A new exhibit, Fighting for Freedom, at Georgia State University in Atlanta explores the historic connection between labor unions and civil rights organizing in the South. 

October 03, 2023
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  • Amanda Andrews
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