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The Verizon Strike Is Already Hitting New Customer Installations
A one-day-old strike by nearly 40,000 Verizon Communications employees is causing equipment installation delays for new Internet and TV customers, a Verizon executive acknowledged on Thursday. Workers...
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UPS and its Pilots Union Look Like They’ve Hit a Wall
This article has been updated to reflect comment from a UPS spokesman and to include a press release from the Independent Pilots Association. Labor negotiations between UPS ups and its pilots may be...
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Uber’s Troubles Pile Up in Argentina—Again
Uber launched in Argentina on April 12, and its first two weeks of operation there have been rough, to say the least. From the very start, enraged taxi drivers were blockading streets in protest at the...
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Is It a Problem That Arianna Huffington Joined the Board at Uber?
She’s a fierce advocate for getting enough sleep, editor-in-chief at The Huffington Post, and now, Arianna Huffington is getting into the ride-sharing business: I'm thrilled to be joining @Uber's board...
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Striking Union Workers Protest at Verizon Shareholder Meeting
Dozens of Verizon Communications landline workers, on strike since mid-April after contract talks hit an impasse, marched on the company’s annual shareholder meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on...
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Obama Administration Gets Verizon and Strikers Talking Again
Verizon Communications and the two unions representing about 40,000 workers on strike for the past month have reopened talks, this time with a federal mediator involved. The new talks, prompted by...
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Verizon Is Seeing a Big Dip in New Customers Due to Strike
The massive walk out of telephone, cable TV, and broadband Internet service installers at Verizon Communications has led to a significant decline in new customers this quarter, the company said on...
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Verizon Strikers Try To Keep Up Pressure As Talks Drag On
Verizon is back at the bargaining table with unions representing about 40,000 striking workers, but the strikers still want to keep up the heat on the company. While picketers continued targeting...
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The Standoff Over France’s New Labor Laws Is Escalating
Police broke up a fuel depot blockade in France on Wednesday and France’s hardline CGT union prepared for a strike at a nuclear plant, escalating a standoff over proposed new labor laws. France has...
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Verizon and Strikers Facing Off in Court as Walkout Drags on
As the strike by about 40,000 workers at Verizon Communications enters its seventh week, the two sides are increasingly facing off in court over alleged misbehavior by picketers. Verizon backed efforts...
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Verizon Settles Strike With Tentative Four Year Agreement
Verizon Communications on Friday reached an agreement in principle with some 40,000 striking workers on a new four-year contract. Though full details of the agreement were not immediately available,...
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Here Are the Details of Verizon’s New Contract With Striking Union Workers
A tentative deal between Verizon Communications and leaders of striking unions includes 1,400 new jobs and pay raises topping 10%, the company and unions representing about 40,000 workers said on...
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Why Unions Are Canvassing Their Swing-State Members Early This Election
With the votes of disgruntled white working-class men a key prize in this fall's election, union members are fanning out in eight Ohio cities this weekend to spell out to their members and supporters...
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The Inside Story of How the Verizon Strike Ended
Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez and his staff had been following the uneven negotiations between Verizon Communications and its two large unions for almost a year when some 40,000 workers, mostly...
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AT&T Sees Its First Labor Problem In Years With Rejected Contract Proposal
A group of more than 40,000 unionized workers in AT&T’s wireless business rejected a proposed benefits contract, marking the first contentious labor negotiation at the telecom giant in several...
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T-Mobile Workers Press Unionization Drive in Kansas
Workers at T-Mobile who have been trying to organize a union opened their first official field office in Wichita, Kan. near one of the wireless carrier’s call centers. The small but symbolic move marks...
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This Powerful Union President Says Clinton Told Him She’d Renegotiate NAFTA
United Auto Workers President Dennis Williams said on Tuesday that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has assured him she would renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement if she...
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AT&T’s Top Union Getting More Confrontational
A long period of labor peace at AT&T appears to be slowly eroding, with negotiations over two more union contracts heating up in recent weeks. A group of some 2,000 workers in AT&T’s Internet...
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AT&T and Union For Wireless Workers Have New Proposed Benefits Deal
AT&T and negotiators for 42,000 unionized workers in its mobile business said they reached a new deal on a benefits contract after a prior agreement was rejected by the workers last month. Union...
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Uber and Lyft Won’t Be Happy About This Seattle Court Ruling
A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit against the city of Seattle over a landmark law which allows Uber and Lyft drivers to unionize. Seattle last year became the first U.S. city to pass a law...
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