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News Articles: Union election

Workers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, take to the streets in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Union wins made big news this year. Here are 5 reasons why it's not the full story

Starbucks stores from coast to coast. An electric vehicle battery plant. The first Amazon warehouse in the U.S. All kinds of workplaces unionized in 2022, but winning elections is only the first step.

December 27, 2022
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  • Andrea Hsu and
  • Alina Selyukh
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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  • Alina Selyukh
Workers line up to vote on unionization at Amazon's warehouse in Staten Island on March 25.

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Amazon loses key step in its attempt to reverse its workers' historic union vote

A federal labor official is recommending a dismissal of Amazon's objections after a lengthy hearing on the company's appeal against the historic union win at a warehouse in New York's Staten Island.

September 01, 2022
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh
A Chipotle sign hangs outside the chain restaurant in Pittsburgh on Feb. 8, 2016. In June 2022, employees of the Augusta, Maine, Chipotle filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board asking to hold a union election at the store. The NLRB had scheduled a hearing July 19, 2022. But Chipotle announced the same day it was permanently closing the store.

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A Chipotle restaurant in Michigan becomes the first in the chain to unionize

A Chipotle restaurant in Lansing, Mich., voted Thursday to unionize, making it the first of the chain's nearly 3,000 locations to do so.

August 26, 2022
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
Protesters march in Seattle during the "Fight Starbucks' Union Busting" rally and march on April 23, 2022.

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Starbucks workers drive nationwide surge in union organizing

Starbucks workers have driven a surge in union election petitions filed with the National Labor Relations Board. Unionizing has also picked up at colleges, non-profits and pot dispensaries.

May 01, 2022
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  • Andrea Hsu
Pro-union pins sit on a table during a watch party for Starbucks' employees union election, Dec. 9, 2021, in Buffalo, N.Y. The top lawyer for the National Labor Relations Board said Thursday, April 7, she will ask the board to rule that mandatory meetings some companies hold to persuade their workers reject unions is in violation of federal labor law.

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Employees at a Starbucks store in Minnesota become the first in the state to unionize

Twenty Starbucks stores have now unionized. Around 220 Starbucks stores have sought elections, with more added every day.

April 28, 2022
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
A man uses his mobile phone near an Apple store logo in Beijing.

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Apple workers in Atlanta become company's 1st retail workers to file to unionize

Communications Workers of America, the retail workers' union, said big tech companies like Apple fail to give employees who don't work in an office equal standing and respect.

April 21, 2022
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  • Ayana Archie
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In a stunning victory, Amazon workers on Staten Island vote for a union

Warehouse workers at an Amazon fulfillment center on Staten Island have voted to join the upstart Amazon Labor Union, making it the first Amazon facility in the U.S. to unionize.

April 01, 2022
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  • Andrea Hsu
Workers at Amazon's warehouse on Staten Island in New York will vote on whether to unionize, becoming the second U.S. warehouse to get such an election.

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Amazon labor push escalates as workers at New York warehouse win a union vote

Amazon will face two union elections at once. Federal officials have set a union vote for Amazon workers at a Staten Island warehouse, coinciding with the ongoing re-do election in Bessemer, Ala.

February 17, 2022
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh
A retail union representative holds a sign by the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., during the first union election in March 2021.

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Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama vote for second time in union effort

Last year, Alabama workers voted against forming the first unionized Amazon warehouse in the U.S. Then, federal labor officials said Amazon unfairly influenced that election. Now, a re-vote begins.

February 04, 2022
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  • Alina Selyukh

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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
Starbucks workers at three stores around Buffalo, N.Y., have voted on whether to join a union.

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Starbucks workers form their 1st union in the U.S. in a big win for labor

Baristas and other workers from three stores voted whether to unionize. Starbucks fought the plan. Now

December 10, 2021
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  • Alina Selyukh
Starbucks workers and organizers in Buffalo, N.Y., discuss efforts to unionize three local stores on Oct. 28.

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Starbucks workers decide whether to form first U.S. union

Voting is ending at three stores around Buffalo, N.Y. Starbucks had flown in executives to the area and asked federal officials to delay the ballot count.

December 08, 2021
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh and
  • Tom Dinki
The Amazon warehouse at the center of a high-profile unionization drive is seen on March 29 in Bessemer, Ala.

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Amazon warehouse workers get to re-do their union vote in Alabama

A federal labor official has ordered a revote in the biggest Amazon union election in the U.S. The agency found the company's anti-union tactics tainted the original vote that rejected unionizing.

November 30, 2021
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh
Amazon workers in Alabama are voting on whether to join a union, in the company's first warehouse union vote since 2014.

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In Alabama, Workers At Amazon Warehouse Are Poised For Union Vote

Some 5,800 workers at the Bessemer facility will vote starting this week on joining the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, potentially making it Amazon's first union shop in the U.S.

February 07, 2021
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By:
  • Jason Slotkin

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