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News Articles: unions

Public sectors unions are among the plaintiffs who have sued the Trump administration over the firings of probationary employees.

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  • Politics

Appeals court rules Trump can fire probationary federal workers once again

The decision from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals further clears the way for the Trump administration to re-fire, for now, thousands of probationary federal employees.

April 09, 2025
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
Protesters hold signs in solidarity with the American Federation of Government Employees at a March 4 rally in support of federal workers at the Office of Personnel Management in Washington, D.C.

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  • Politics

Trump signs order ending union bargaining rights for wide swaths of federal employees

President Trump's new executive order ends collective bargaining for wide swaths of federal employees, as part of his broader campaign to reshape the government's workforce. Unions are vowing to sue.

March 28, 2025
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
Amazon's distribution center in Garner, N.C., opened in August 2020.

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  • Business

Amazon workers vote against unionizing a North Carolina warehouse

Workers voted against joining a grassroots union called Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity and Empowerment, or CAUSE.

February 15, 2025
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh
Boeing workers gather on a picket line near the entrance to a Boeing facility during an ongoing strike in Seattle, Wash. About 33,000 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 751 have been on strike for nearly seven weeks.

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  • Business

Boeing’s striking machinists union will vote Monday on a new contract offer

Boeing’s machinists union leaders are endorsing the company’s latest contract offer, setting the stage for a vote on Monday that could end the seven-week strike.

November 01, 2024
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By:
  • Joel Rose
Workers walk the picket line outside Dundalk Marine Terminal at the Port of Baltimore on October 1, 2024.

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  • Business

Dockworkers go on strike, snarling traffic at East and Gulf Coast ports

Union dockworkers at ports across the U.S. began walking picket lines early Tuesday, snarling the movement of billions of dollars' worth of goods.

October 01, 2024
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu and
  • Scott Horsley
Shipping containers sit piled at the Port of Baltimore on Sept. 21, 2018.

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  • Business

Dockworkers are on the verge of a strike. Here's what you need to know

Some 25,000 dockworkers at East and Gulf Coast ports may strike as early as October 1 if their union doesn't reach a contract deal with shipping companies and port operators.

September 29, 2024
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  • Andrea Hsu
Boeing workers wave picket signs as they strike after union members voted to reject a contract offer, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024, near the company's factory in Everett, Wash.

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  • Business

Boeing makes a 'final offer' to striking workers, but union says it's not good enough

Boeing said Monday it made a “best and final offer” to striking machinists, but the workers' union said the proposal isn't good enough and there won't be a ratification vote before Boeing's deadline.

September 24, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Teamsters Canada Rail Conference members picket outside the CPKC headquarters in Calgary, Alta., on Friday.

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  • Latin America

Arbitration hearing between Canadian railroads and union ends with no decision

A workers union threatened a strike at one of Canada’s two major railroads. A government-ordered arbitration hearing ended without a decision. Trains are expected to keep moving through Monday.

August 24, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
A railwayman inspects the locomotive of a Canadian National Railroad train, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024 in Metairie, La.

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  • World

Canada orders a third party to mediate a labor dispute between railways and employees

Negotiations between Canadian National Railway, Canadian Pacific Kansas City and the Teamsters union, which represents 10,000 of the companies' employees, began about a year ago.

August 23, 2024
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
Hilario Becerra was one of the leaders of a union organizing campaign at a painting company in Chicago. Amid fierce anti-union messaging from management delivered through many hours of meetings, workers voted 14 to 8 against unionizing in June.

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  • Business

Illinois bans companies from forcing workers to listen to their anti-union talk

Illinois is the 8th state to adopt a law making it illegal for employers to hold mandatory religious, political or anti-union meetings, a move aimed at helping workers trying to unionize.

July 31, 2024
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
Delta ramp workers and their supporters rallied near Hartsfield Jackson on July 17, 2024 as part of a larger push for unionization.

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  • News

Delta workers rally in support of unionization during ongoing labor campaign

Delta Air Lines ramp workers and their supporters gathered near Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Wednesday to rally for union representation.

July 18, 2024
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By:
  • Amanda Andrews
Jeremy Kimbrell has worked at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Vance, Ala., since 1999. Having been involved in several failed union drives, he says this latest one feels different.

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  • Business

Want to understand America's labor movement? Head south

If you go by headlines, the last 12 months have delivered major wins to organized labor.

But despite well publicized victories the rate of U.S. union membership fell to a record low in 2023. Just 10%.

And in southern states, the push to unionize can still be a grinding, uphill battle.

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Email us at considerthis@npr.org.

May 03, 2024
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By:
  • GPB Newsroom

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  • Economy

The UAW's decade-long fight to form a union at VW's Chattanooga plant (Update)

(Note: This episode originally ran in 2023.)

Union membership in the U.S. has been declining for decades. But, in 2022, support for unions among Americans was the highest it's been in decades. This dissonance is due, in part, to the difficulties of one important phase in the life cycle of a union: setting up a union in the first place. One place where that has been particularly clear is at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Back in 2008, Volkswagen announced that they would be setting up production in the United States after a 20-year absence. They planned to build a new auto manufacturing plant in Chattanooga.

Volkswagen has plants all over the world, all of which have some kind of worker representation, and the company said that it wanted that for Chattanooga too. So, the United Auto Workers, the union that traditionally represents auto workers, thought they would be able to successfully unionize this plant.

They were wrong.

In this episode, we tell the story of the UAW's 10-year fight to unionize the Chattanooga plant. And, what other unions can learn from how badly that fight went for labor.

This episode was hosted by Amanda Aronczyk and Nick Fountain. It was produced by Willa Rubin. It was engineered by Josephine Nyounai, fact-checked by Sierra Juarez, and edited by Keith Romer. Alex Goldmark is our executive producer.

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in Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org/planetmoney.

April 24, 2024
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By:
  • Amanda Aronczyk,
  • Nick Fountain,
  • and 2 more
<em>Washington Post</em> staff picket during a 24-hour strike outside the newspaper's building in December 2023.

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  • Media

Journalists turn to picket lines as the news business ails

Journalists have walked out of two dozen newsrooms over layoffs, budget cuts and fraught contract talks in just the past few weeks. All of them belong to the leading newspaper union, the NewsGuild.

February 14, 2024
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By:
  • David Folkenflik
President Biden speaks at a campaign event in North Las Vegas, Nev., on Sunday.

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  • News

Beyond the primary, Nevada Democrats have to turn policy playbook into actual votes

Democrats are looking to keep Nevada voters in Biden's corner this year and they hope his policies do it. But communicating the federal dollars isn't the easiest way to excite voters.

February 08, 2024
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
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