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Starbucks strike expands, closes nearly 60 US stores

Dec. 23, 2024 15:26 PM EST

A five-day strike by Starbucks baristas had closed 59 stores as of Monday afternoon, according to the union organizing the workers. The strike, which began Friday in Los Angeles, Chicago and Starbucks' hometown of Seattle, spread Monday to stores in Boston, Dallas and Portland, Ore....

Amazon and Starbucks workers are on strike. Trump might have something to do with it

Dec. 22, 2024 17:06 PM EST

Amazon delivery drivers and Starbucks baristas are on strike in a handful of U.S. cities as they seek to exert pressure on the two major companies to recognize them as unionized employees or to meet demands for an inaugural labor contract. The strikes that started Thursday and...

Amazon and Starbucks workers are on strike. Trump might have something to do with it

Dec. 20, 2024 18:44 PM EST

Amazon delivery drivers and Starbucks baristas are on strike in a handful of U.S. cities as they seek to exert pressure on the two major companies to recognize them as unionized employees or to meet demands for an inaugural labor contract. The strikes that started Thursday and...

Amazon workers are striking at multiple facilities. Here's what you should know

Dec. 20, 2024 17:51 PM EST

Amazon workers affiliated with the Teamsters union continued a strike Friday at seven of the company's delivery hubs just days before Christmas. At midnight on Saturday, workers at a prominent unionized warehouse in New York will also join, the Teamsters said. However, the union has...

Starbucks workers begin strikes that could spread to hundreds of US stores by Christmas Eve

Dec. 20, 2024 14:57 PM EST

Workers at Starbucks stores began a five-day strike Friday to protest lack of progress in contract negotiations with the company. The strikes by baristas and other workers were scheduled to take place in Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle and could spread to hundreds of stores across...

IG Metall union says wage deal reached with Volkswagen to avoid plant closings, involuntary layoffs for German workers

Dec. 20, 2024 13:14 PM EST
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — IG Metall union says wage deal reached with Volkswagen to avoid plant closings, involuntary layoffs for German workers.

Amazon workers strike at multiple facilities as Teamsters seek labor contract

Dec. 19, 2024 17:43 PM EST

Workers at seven Amazon facilities went on strike Thursday, an effort by the Teamsters union to pressure the e-commerce company for a labor agreement during a key shopping period. The Teamsters said the workers, who voted to authorize strikes in recent days, joined picket lines after...

Trump offers support for dockworkers union by saying ports shouldn't install more automated systems

Dec. 12, 2024 18:48 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday voiced his support for the dockworkers union before their contract expires next month at Eastern and Gulf Coast ports, saying that any further “automation” of the ports would harm workers. The incoming president posted...

WNBA and players' union meet to discuss new CBA

Dec. 11, 2024 21:26 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — The WNBA and the league's players union met in person Wednesday to discuss a new collective bargaining agreement. “Today’s meeting included preliminary conversations and constructive dialogue, with a mutual agreement to continue discussions for a...

Will Juan Soto top Shohei Ohtani's deal? In the era of deferred money, it might depend on the math

Dec. 06, 2024 10:03 AM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — Deciding whether Juan Soto tops Shohei Ohtani for baseball’s largest contract could be in the eye of the beholder because of all the deferred money in Ohtani's deal. Ohtani agreed last December to a $700 million, 10-year deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers, easily...