Union election

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.

Union academic workers and supporters march and picket at the UCLA campus amid a statewide strike by nearly 48,000 University of California unionized workers on Nov. 15, 2022, in Los Angeles.

Education

UAW members aren't all assembling cars. More and more are unionized grad students

4:11pm October 19, 2023

by Andrea Hsu

At its peak, the United Auto Workers union had 1.5 million members. Today, the "A" in UAW might as well include academia, as roughly 100,000 of the union's 383,000 members work in higher education.

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The Home Depot store is seen in Philadelphia on Feb. 22. Home Depot workers in the city could form the company's first unionized store.

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Home Depot workers in Philadelphia vote on whether to form 1st unionized store

5:00am November 02, 2022

by Alina Selyukh

More than 260 workers will be able to begin voting on Wednesday. Results are expected late Saturday.

Workers line up to vote on unionization at Amazon's warehouse in Staten Island on March 25.

National

Amazon loses key step in its attempt to reverse its workers' historic union vote

7:40pm September 01, 2022

by Alina Selyukh

A federal labor official is recommending a dismissal of Amazon's objections after a lengthy hearing on the company's appeal against the historic union win at a warehouse in New York's Staten Island.

Pro-union pins sit on a table during a watch party for Starbucks' employees union election, Dec. 9, 2021, in Buffalo, N.Y. The top lawyer for the National Labor Relations Board said Thursday, April 7, she will ask the board to rule that mandatory meetings

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Employees at a Starbucks store in Minnesota become the first in the state to unionize

3:19am April 28, 2022

by Ayana Archie

Twenty Starbucks stores have now unionized. Around 220 Starbucks stores have sought elections, with more added every day.

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.

Workers at Amazon's warehouse on Staten Island in New York will vote on whether to unionize, becoming the second U.S. warehouse to get such an election.

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Amazon labor push escalates as workers at New York warehouse win a union vote

8:10pm February 17, 2022

by Alina Selyukh

Amazon will face two union elections at once. Federal officials have set a union vote for Amazon workers at a Staten Island warehouse, coinciding with the ongoing re-do election in Bessemer, Ala.

A retail union representative holds a sign by the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., during the first union election in March 2021.

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Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama vote for second time in union effort

5:09am February 04, 2022

by Alina Selyukh

Last year, Alabama workers voted against forming the first unionized Amazon warehouse in the U.S. Then, federal labor officials said Amazon unfairly influenced that election. Now, a re-vote begins.

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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.