National Labor Relations Board

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Labor watchdog opens investigation into DOGE whistleblower claims after NPR reporting

12:56pm May 16, 2025

DOGE employees demanded the highest level of access to the labor agency's systems, according to a whistleblower and reporting from NPR. The whistleblower said sensitive data then left the agency.

National

DOGE assigns staffers to work at agency where it allegedly removed sensitive data

6:47pm April 16, 2025

The National Labor Relations Board told employees Wednesday that DOGE staffers would be assigned to the agency, one day after a whistleblower alleged DOGE may have removed sensitive NLRB data.

National

5 takeaways about NPR's reporting on the whistleblower report about DOGE at the NLRB

5:00am April 15, 2025

Here's a summary of NPR's findings about the report that a whistleblower filed to Congress about how DOGE violated security protocols and could have removed sensitive labor data.

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Economy

Unions are changing, but they may have trouble gaining ground in North Carolina

11:26am September 16, 2022

by Paul Garber

Grace Marvell, a 21-year-old biology major at Appalachian State University, wears a black t-shirt with what appears to be the familiar Starbucks logo with an image embedded

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National

A judge dismisses an ex-Home Depot employee's case about not wearing BLM on uniforms

5:44am June 13, 2022

by Ayana Archie

The Home Depot's uniform policy bans political or religious messages "unrelated to workplace matters" from employees' aprons, or elsewhere on their clothing.

Economy

Workers at Boone Starbucks vote to unionize

4:18pm May 04, 2022

by Keri Brown

Employees at a Starbucks in Boone recently voted to unionize.

National

Apple workers in Atlanta become company's 1st retail workers to file to unionize

10:22am April 21, 2022

by Ayana Archie

Communications Workers of America, the retail workers' union, said big tech companies like Apple fail to give employees who don't work in an office equal standing and respect.

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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