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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...

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...

Manchin, Sinema prevent Democrats from locking in majority on labor board through 2026

Dec. 11, 2024 19:44 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats failed Wednesday to confirm a Democratic member of the National Labor Relations Board after independent Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema opposed the nomination, thwarting their hopes of locking in a majority at the federal agency for the first two years of...

Recess appointments could put Trump at odds with conservatives on the Supreme Court

Dec. 01, 2024 07:43 AM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans will control the White House and both houses of Congress come January. But President-elect Donald Trump's intent to nominate loyalists to fill key Cabinet posts has set up a possible confrontation with the Senate, which has the constitutional responsibility for...

Workers at Kentucky electric vehicle battery production complex start drive to unionize

Nov. 20, 2024 16:33 PM EST

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Workers hired for a sprawling electric vehicle battery production complex in Kentucky have launched a campaign to join the United Auto Workers as the union tries to expand its foothold in the South and among battery factories, the UAW said Wednesday. The...

Amazon workers in Alabama will have third labor union vote after judge finds illegal influence

Nov. 07, 2024 15:43 PM EST

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Amazon workers in Alabama will decide for the third time in three years whether to unionize after a federal judge ruled that the retail giant improperly influenced the most recent vote in which employees rejected a union. Administrative law judge Michael...

Elon Musk wins court victory in a dispute over a 2018 post during a labor dispute

Oct. 29, 2024 21:58 PM EDT

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal agency was wrong to order that Tesla CEO Elon Musk delete a 2018 social media post that union leaders saw as a threat to employee stock options, a sharply divided federal appeals court has ruled. The case involved a post made on what was then known as...

Ports seek order to force dockworkers to bargaining table as strike looms at East and Gulf ports

Sep. 26, 2024 13:56 PM EDT

DETROIT (AP) — With a strike deadline looming, the group representing East and Gulf Coast ports is asking a federal agency to make the Longshoremen's union come to the bargaining table to negotiate a new contract. The U.S. Maritime Alliance says it filed an unfair labor practice...