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News Articles: unions

A child walks toward a yellow school bus stopped in a residential street.

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  • News

Workers at Georgia school bus maker Blue Bird begin voting on whether to unionize

Workers in Georgia at one of the nation's largest school bus makers are voting beginning Thursday on whether to unionize. It's a chance for organized labor to make gains in the union-unfriendly South.

May 11, 2023
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  • Associated Press
At dusk, lights remain on at Rutgers University's Old Queens building in 2013 in New Brunswick, N.J.

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  • Education

Rutgers University faculty members are striking over a contract dispute

The three unions say they have been unable to reach an agreement with university officials. Rutgers president Jonathan Holloway said he was disappointed by the strike.

April 10, 2023
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By:
  • Ayana Archie and
  • Joe Hernandez
Dr. Leah Rethy is an internal medicine resident with Penn Medicine.

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  • Health Care

80-hour weeks and roaches near your cot? More medical residents unionize

Part of a national trend, medical residents at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia push to form a union to demand better working conditions and higher wages. Child care is an important issue for many.

March 23, 2023
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By:
  • Alan Yu

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  • Economy

You may have heard of the 'union boom.' The numbers tell a different story

Despite a stream of headlines last year about unionization drives throughout the nation, the share of American workers in unions fell to its lowest level on record. What's going on?

February 28, 2023
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By:
  • Greg Rosalsky
Workers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, take to the streets in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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  • Business

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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By:
  • Andrea Hsu and
  • Alina Selyukh
Starbucks employees strike outside their store on Nov. 17 in Mesa, Ariz.

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  • Business

Starbucks union organizing gave labor a jolt of energy in 2022

Starbucks workers unionized at record speed. But workers are now filing fewer unionization petitions, one year on.

December 09, 2022
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By:
  • Mary Yang
Freight rail cars sit in a rail yard in Wilmington, California, on November 22, 2022. This week, President Biden urged Congress to pass legislation to prevent a rail strike that could have brought trains to a halt nationwide.

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  • Business

Some rail workers say Biden "turned his back on us" in deal to avert rail strike

With a strike looming, President Biden called on Congress to pass legislation imposing a contract deal that four rail unions had rejected, citing its lack of paid sick days.

December 03, 2022
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
Workers at the East Point Amazon warehouse protest for better working conditions and higher pay on October 19, 2022.

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  • Business

'No justice, no work': Amazon workers demand safety and fair pay

Workers from Amazon’s East Point warehouse, ATL 6, recently held a protest demanding higher wages and better working conditions.

October 20, 2022
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By:
  • Amanda Andrews
Workers service the tracks at the Metra/BNSF railroad yard in Chicago

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  • Business

How an attendance policy brought the U.S. to the brink of a nationwide rail strike

Freight rail workers had threatened to strike Friday. The unions were unhappy about a policy that penalizes workers who take unscheduled time off, including for medical needs.

September 15, 2022
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
The Great Resignation

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  • News

Georgia among worst states for workers, report says

During the so-called "Great Resignation," workers are leaving their jobs in search of better pay and working conditions. But where should they look for greener pastures? According to a new report from Oxfam, not Georgia. The report finds the state ranks near the bottom of the list when considering its low minimum wage, lack of union protections and new abortion ban. GPB's Peter Biello spoke with Kaitlyn Henderson, the author of the Oxfam Report.

September 01, 2022
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By:
  • Peter Biello
Employees of HarperCollins Publisher participate in a one-day strike outside the publishing houses offices in Manhattan on July 20, 2022 in New York City.

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  • Business

Support for labor unions in the U.S. is at a 57-year high

A new poll from Gallup shows that support for unions is the highest it's been since 1965. This comes as workers at companies like Starbucks, Amazon and Chipotle have lately launched union drives.

August 31, 2022
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
Scott Lucey, owner of Likewise Coffee whose staff unionized in 2020, sits for a portrait on June 9, 2022 in Milwaukee.

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  • Business

One unionized. The other did not. How 2 Milwaukee cafés were changed by union drives

A barista-led labor movement has dealt challenges to coffee shop owners, and not just Howard Schultz. In Milwaukee, two independently owned cafés faced union drives with two very different outcomes.

July 01, 2022
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
Scott Lucey, owner of Likewise Coffee whose staff unionized in 2020, sits for a portrait on June 9, 2022 in Milwaukee.

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  • Business

One unionized. The other did not. How 2 Milwaukee cafés were changed by union drives

A barista-led labor movement has dealt challenges to coffee shop owners, and not just Howard Schultz. In Milwaukee, two independently owned cafés faced union drives with two very different outcomes.

July 01, 2022
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
Starbucks' lawyers met twice with the unionized workers of the Ithaca store to offer them the option of applying to transfer to another location after announcing the store closure. However, the company would not guarantee the workers' jobs moving forward, leaving them scrambling with little to no job security.

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  • National

Starbucks union in Ithaca protests store's closure and calls for a boycott

The decision to close the store on College Avenue has left workers with less than a week's notice and resulted in them calling for a boycott of other Starbucks stores around the city.

June 10, 2022
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By:
  • Shruti Rajkumar
A Trader Joe's in Hadley, Mass., has filed for a union election and would become the first unionized store in the chain if successful.

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  • Business

Trader Joe's workers in Massachusetts file to create chain's first union

Employees at a Trader Joe's in Hadley, Mass., have filed to hold a union election. If the vote is successful, it will create the first union in the nationwide chain.

June 09, 2022
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By:
  • Jacqueline GaNun
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