Labor Unions

About 2,500 members of a machinists union approved a contract with Boeing on Wednesday, averting a strike at three St. Louis-area manufacturing facilities.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspected Amazon warehouses in multiple states this week as part of a probe into workplace conditions.

Employees at a Trader Joe's in Massachusetts voted Thursday to unionize, becoming the first location among the company's nearly 530 stores.

Union workers at three Boeing manufacturing facilities in the St. Louis-area voted to go on strike Sunday as talks broke down over a new contract.

Protesting truckers on Wednesday brought a Northern California port, one of the nation's busiest, to a standstill in protest of AB5, a controversial labor law.

Scandinavian Airlines said Tuesday it had reached a deal with the pilots' unions, ending a 15-day strike that had cost the airline more than $145 million.

An Amazon facility in Staten Island, which voted earlier this year to unionize, issued more than 13,000 disciplinary notices in a single year, according to court papers.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk criticized President Biden's White House for not inviting his company to an electric vehicle summit because his company is not unionized.

Workers at a New Orleans, Louisiana, Starbucks voted over the weekend to unionize and join Workers United, making it the first store in the state to form a union.

A Starbucks shop in Birmingham, Alabama, has voted to unionize following a 27-1 vote on Thursday and would be represented by Workers United if the vote stands.

The Amazon warehouse in Staten Island held the first successful organizing effort in the company's history.

San Francisco food company Amy's Kitchen is deadlocked as its workforce, leadership and a local union struggle for control of a factory.

Unionization efforts are mounting nationwide. While some of those efforts are kicking off in right-to-work states, others are not. That distinction is important because it will determine if employees, regardless if they want to join the union, will be forced to pay dues.

Thousands of unionized California grocery store workers have a new contract.

Chevron Corp and the United Steelworkers union (USW) met on Monday to seek an end to a three-week-old strike by 500 workers at the company's Richmond, California, refinery, a union official said.

President Biden's warning to Amazon comes after a successful unionization effort in New York.

Organizers of the first successful Amazon unionization effort followed a playbook, according to a top retail consultant.

Starbucks has started to unionize in several locations, with dozens more considering a vote to do the same.

Employees of the Starbucks Reserve Roastery in Manhattan's Chelsea Market voted 46-36 to unionize with Starbucks Workers United.

Former Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz has returned amid the coffee chain's employee unionization movement.