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News Articles: Union election

Disney characters lead a parade to celebrate Mickey Mouse's 90th birthday at Disneyland in November 2018.

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'Magic United': Disneyland characters vote to unionize

Disneyland employees in California, including those who perform as characters from Mickey Mouse to Moana, have voted to unionize. The 1,700 workers will be represented by Actors' Equity Association.

May 18, 2024
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  • Andrea Hsu
More than 5,000 workers assemble luxury SUVs and EV batteries for Mercedes-Benz in Alabama.

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Mercedes workers vote no to union. UAW says they were illegally intimidated

More than 5,000 Mercedes-Benz workers who build luxury SUVs in Alabama were eligible to vote on whether to join the UAW. Workers faced intense anti-union messaging from Mercedes in the run-up.

May 17, 2024
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu and
  • Stephan Bisaha
Over the past several years, Alabama workers have found themselves at the center of three high-profile labor disputes in three industries. Antwon McGhee (left) has worked as a coal miner for 17 years. Isaiah Thomas formerly worked at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer. Moesha Chandler works in assembly at Mercedes-Benz in Vance.

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Unions double-down in the Deep South: Can Alabama pave the way?

Three high-profile labor disputes have unfolded in central Alabama over the past several years, with Amazon warehouse workers, coal miners and autoworkers all speaking out for change.

May 06, 2024
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu and
  • Stephan Bisaha
Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tenn., celebrate as results from the union election at the auto plant come in on April 19, 2024. The final tally was 2,628 in favor of unionizing and 985 against.

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Volkswagen workers vote yes to unionizing, igniting UAW's push to organize the South

Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tenn., voted overwhelmingly to unionize with the UAW, setting a new trajectory for labor unions in the American South.

April 20, 2024
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu and
  • Stephan Bisaha
Some 4,300 hourly workers at this Volkswagen automobile assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., are voting this week on whether to join the United Auto Workers union.

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Why this vote at a Tennessee Volkswagen plant is historic for the South

Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tenn., are voting this week on whether to join the United Auto Workers union. Two previous attempts to unionize the plant failed. Ballots will be counted on Friday.

April 17, 2024
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  • Stephan Bisaha and
  • Andrea Hsu
Union academic workers and supporters march and picket at the UCLA campus amid a statewide strike by nearly 48,000 University of California unionized workers on Nov. 15, 2022, in Los Angeles.

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UAW members aren't all assembling cars. More and more are unionized grad students

At its peak, the United Auto Workers union had 1.5 million members. Today, the "A" in UAW might as well include academia, as roughly 100,000 of the union's 383,000 members work in higher education.

October 19, 2023
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  • Andrea Hsu
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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Alina Selyukh
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