On Wednesday, President Joe Biden received a major endorsement from the 3 million-member North America’s Building Trades Unions. During his remarks on receiving the NABTU endorsement in Washington, the president derided former President Donald Trump, claiming he “looks down on American union workers.” “Think about the guys you grew up with who you’d like to get […]
Unionized Starbucks workers sat down with the company Wednesday for the first round of bargaining since the coffee giant agreed to contract talks this year. A total of 150 union delegates chosen from unionized Starbucks stores bargained in person with company executives, with hundreds more tuning in from around the country. According to the union, […]
President Biden on Wednesday took an oral swing at his 2024 rival, former President Donald Trump. During a campaign speech to North America’s Building Trades Unions, Mr. Biden unloaded on Mr. Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee. “He looks down on union workers,” the president said of Mr. Trump. “It’s not that he doesn’t support us. […]
LONDON — The European Union on Monday demanded TikTok provide more information about a new app that pays users to watch videos and warned that it could order the video-sharing platform to suspend addictive features that pose a risk to kids. The 27-nation EU‘s executive Commission said it was opening formal proceedings to determine whether […]
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Employees at a Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, overwhelmingly voted to join the United Auto Workers union Friday in a historic first test of the UAW’s renewed effort to organize nonunion factories. The union wound up getting 2,628 votes, or 73% of the ballots cast, compared with only 985 who voted no […]
Two years after clinching a historic victory at a warehouse in New York City, the first labor union for Amazon workers in the United States is divided, running out of money and fighting over an election that could determine who will lead the group in the near future. Despite campaigns at several facilities in the […]
Donald Trump suspects President Biden is a cocaine user and wants him drug-tested before any presidential debates. The former president said in an interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt that Mr. Biden was “higher than a kite” when he gave the State of the Union address and doesn’t want that to happen again if they […]
Workers at the Mercedes plant in Vance, Alabama, will file this week for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board. The employees at the SUV plant are hoping to join the United Auto Workers, which have been aggressively organizing at the Mercedes factory since the start of this year. UAW leadership didn’t give […]
Well, the Utah Royals jersey “controversy” has at least one thing going for it: It doesn’t involve Megan Rapinoe. The Royals, for the unaware — and, given the state of women’s soccer in this country, I’m sure are very many of you — are one of the 14 teams that make up the National Women’s […]
Employees at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga, Tennessee, plant will vote on unionization next month after a supermajority of workers signed union cards with the United Auto Workers. The National Labor Relations Board will oversee the secret ballot election April 17-19, the union announced Tuesday. Over 4,000 workers could vote to unionize VW’s only U.S. plant. “We’re voting […]
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