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Court Hears TikTok Appeal To U.S. Ban Or Divestment Law

Appeals court rules Trump can fire board members of independent agencies

6:17pm March 28, 2025

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that Trump can fire Democratic members of the National Labor Relations Board and the Merit Systems Protection Board after a lower court had them reinstated.

Amazon workers vote against unionizing a North Carolina warehouse

6:00pm February 15, 2025

Workers voted against joining a grassroots union called Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity and Empowerment, or CAUSE.

Trump fires EEOC and labor board officials, setting up legal fight

1:51pm January 28, 2025

President Trump fired two Democratic EEOC commissioners and an NLRB board member, hobbling two independent agencies that are tasked with enforcing worker protections.

Accused of violating worker rights, SpaceX and Amazon go after labor board

5:00am November 18, 2024

SpaceX and Amazon are asking the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to find the National Labor Relations Board unconstitutional. The federal agency is tasked with enforcing workers' right to organize.

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Amazon ordered to let workers vote on unionizing -- for the 3rd time

7:13pm November 06, 2024

A federal administrative law judge says Amazon interfered in the last election on unionization at its warehouse in Bessemer, Ala.

Here’s where Trump and Harris stand on 5 issues affecting workers

12:58pm November 01, 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have both appealed to workers in this year's election. But the candidates’ stances on many issues affecting workers remain far apart.

NLRB says Amazon is a joint employer of some 3rd-party delivery drivers in California

1:14pm August 24, 2024

The two sides have been in disagreement about whether Amazon bears legal responsibility to its delivery drivers, who are technically employed by third-party companies but deliver Amazon packages.

More than 5,000 workers assemble luxury SUVs and EV batteries for Mercedes-Benz in Alabama.

Mercedes workers vote no to union. UAW says they were illegally intimidated

5:38pm May 17, 2024

More than 5,000 Mercedes-Benz workers who build luxury SUVs in Alabama were eligible to vote on whether to join the UAW. Workers faced intense anti-union messaging from Mercedes in the run-up.

Workers at this Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., held a revote on unionizing in March 2022, but the result remains unresolved.

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Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama might get a third try at unionizing

5:01am April 25, 2024

by Alina Selyukh

Federal officials threw out the first vote, ruling that Amazon improperly interfered. The results of the second vote remain inconclusive. The federal government now determines what happens next.

Jeremy Kimbrell has worked at the Mercedes plant in Vance, Ala., since 1999. Having been involved in several failed union drives, he says this latest one feels different.

Seeking to defy history, the UAW is coming closer to unionizing in the South

6:07pm April 05, 2024

Autoworkers at Volkswagen's plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., will vote in mid-April on whether to join the United Auto Workers union. Mercedes workers in Tuscaloosa County, Ala., will soon follow.

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