Unions

Amazon is requesting that workers at an Alabama warehouse seeking to form a union cast in-person votes rather than by mail in order to have a "fair" election, despite the ongoing threat of the coronavirus. 

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh is President Biden's pick to head the Labor Department as the new president vows to "build back better."

Morgantown, home to West Virginia University, grows more polarized as it becomes more prosperous and white collar

A weeklong strike at the nation’s largest wholesale produce market ended Saturday after workers overwhelmingly approved a deal that includes their largest pay increase in decades and more money for health coverage.

Instacart will begin offering its retail partners a new Partner Pick model, which will allow stores to rely on their own employees to utilize Instacart's technology and fulfill orders for customers. 

Transportation Secretary nominee Pete Buttigieg claimed Thursday that President Biden's decision to block the Keystone XL Pipeline is part of a broader plan that will end up being a net positive for employment, despite union outrage based on the loss of more than a thousand jobs.

General Motors will promote 650 hourly workers in the U.S. to full-time jobs this month, the company announced Monday.

Two Google software engineers announced they will form a union open to all employees of Alphabet, Google's parent company.

The strike follows months of failed talks.

United Steelworkers is warning against President-elect Joe Biden rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership, calling it an "abject failure" to contain economic rival China.

Under the terms of the proposed settlement, an independent monitor would be appointed that would have the authority to investigate possible fraud and corruption within the UAW and to seek discipline against the union's officers and its roughly 400,000 members before an independent ethics officer or the UAW Trial Committee.

An independent monitor will help root out corruption in the United Auto Workers union' and members will decide if they will vote directly on the union's leadership under a reform agreement with the U.S. Attorney's office.

The New York State Nurses Association is supporting strikes at two hospitals in New Rochelle and Albany where nurses say staff and patients are not being properly protected from coronavirus due to a lack of PPE and understaffing.

President-elect Joe Biden, while speaking with key labor leaders and CEOs from some of the nation's biggest companies, made a promise: Unions will have increased power under his administration. 

Federal prosecutors argue that former United Auto Workers vice president Joe Ashton should serve nearly three years in prison.

Williams is the fifteenth person to plead guilty as part of an ongoing federal corruption probe, including his successor as president, Gary Jones.

The law was heavily backed by unions, including the California Nurses Association and the SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West.