labor organizing

The Google Doodle on Sept. 15 celebrates Luisa Moreno, who founded one of the first Latino civil rights assemblies in the U.S. and fought for improved working conditions and fair treatment for Latino laborers.

Google Doodle honors Guatemalan-American labor activist Luisa Moreno

2:26pm September 15, 2023

by Juliana Kim

For the first day of Hispanic Heritage Month, labor organizer Luisa Moreno, who founded one of the first Latino civil rights assemblies in the U.S., inspired Friday's Google Doodle.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (left) will question Howard Schultz, who recently stepped down as Starbucks CEO, on the company's resistance to its workers unionizing.

In clash with Bernie Sanders, Starbucks' Howard Schultz insists he's no union buster

6:50pm March 29, 2023

by Alina Selyukh

A hearing for the history books: The resolutely anti-union architect of the modern Starbucks faces the outspoken champion of the union movement in Congress.

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Organizer Chris Smalls speaks after his Amazon Labor Union won a vote to form the company's first unionized U.S. warehouse in Staten Island, N.Y., in April.

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Quiet quitting, real quitting, unionizing — what else are American workers up to?

7:01am September 04, 2022

How we work, when we work, how much we work – it's all shifting on a scale not seen in decades.

Workers walk toward an Amazon warehouse on Staten Island, New York, on April 25, 2022. It's the second Amazon facility on Staten Island to vote on whether to join the Amazon Labor Union.

Amazon Labor Union fails to repeat victory in Staten Island Amazon warehouse election

4:28pm May 02, 2022

by Andrea Hsu

An Amazon sorting center on Staten Island in New York has voted against unionizing, a month after a larger Amazon warehouse across the street voted to join the Amazon Labor Union.

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Starbucks union push spreads to 54 stores in 19 states

4:40pm January 31, 2022

by Alina Selyukh

Starbucks workers at 15 additional stores are petitioning for a a union election, pushing to organize cafes across the country. In Buffalo, the first store to unionize is negotiating a contract.

Starbucks workers at three stores around Buffalo, N.Y., have voted on whether to join a union.

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Starbucks workers form their 1st union in the U.S. in a big win for labor

3:40pm December 09, 2021

by Alina Selyukh

Baristas and other workers from three stores voted whether to unionize. Starbucks fought the plan. Now, workers at four additional U.S. locations are also pursuing union votes.

Starbucks workers and organizers in Buffalo, N.Y., discuss efforts to unionize three local stores on Oct. 28.

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Starbucks workers decide whether to form first U.S. union

2:48pm December 08, 2021

Voting is ending at three stores around Buffalo, N.Y. Starbucks had flown in executives to the area and asked federal officials to delay the ballot count.

Workers and supporters hold signs after filing a petition requesting an election to form a union outside the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) regional office in the Brooklyn Borough of New York, U.S., on Monday, Oct. 25, 2021. Amazon.com Inc. workers

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Amazon warehouse workers in New York file for a union vote

5:55pm October 25, 2021

by Alina Selyukh

Amazon workers in New York plan to take an initial step toward forming a union. Organizers say they have collected some 2,000 signatures for a union vote from warehouse workers on Staten Island.

Signs reading "vote" hang outside the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., in March as workers wrapped up their seven-week mail-in election on whether to unionize.

Amazon Warehouse Workers In Alabama May Get To Vote Again On Union

1:08am August 03, 2021

A federal labor official found that Amazon's anti-union tactics may have tainted last spring's voting process sufficiently to scrap its results. Workers had rejected unionization more than 2-to-1.

Workers at Amazon's facility in Bessemer, Ala., held a historic vote on whether to form the company's first warehouse union.

It's A No: Amazon Warehouse Workers Vote Against Unionizing In Historic Election

4:12pm April 09, 2021

by Alina Selyukh

Amazon avoided the prospect of a first unionized warehouse in America, where it's now the second-largest private employer. The vote in Alabama had prompted new interest in unions across the country.

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