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American Workers Try to Organize — One Click at a Time
Technology is often tough on labor, whether it's automation eating jobs or "gig economy" platforms undermining the traditional social contract between employer and employee. Now, some workers are...
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Boeing Engineers Overwhelmingly Back New Labor Contracts
Boeing Co’s engineers’ union ratified six-year labor contracts by a wide margin on Wednesday, a vote that ensures stability during a period when the plane maker is bringing out new versions of its two...
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Sanders and Trump Give Union Hope in Fight for Jobs at Carrier
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb 18 (Reuters) – Duane Oreskowic was speechless when he learned last week that his job would be one of 1,400 lost when his employer, Carrier Corp, moved production to Mexico. But he has...
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California Lawmakers, Unions Reach $15 Minimum Wage Deal
California lawmakers and union leaders have reached a tentative deal to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 over six years that could avert a campaign to bring the issue to voters, two California...
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How Scalia’s Death Handed Public Unions a Huge Supreme Court Victory
Public sector unions triumphed before the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday when the justices preserved a vital source of cash for organized labor, splitting 4-4 on a conservative challenge that had seemed...
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Verizon Strike Among the Top 3 of the Last 10 Years
About 40,000 Verizon workers up and down the East Coast walked off the job on Wednesday after contract negotiations broke down. The nation’s second-largest telecommunications carrier by revenue wants...
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Verizon CEO Makes Personal Pitch To Striking Workers
Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam took off his tie on Thursday and headed out to the picket lines where thousands of his own employees are on strike. McAdam obviously wasn’t joining the strikers’ cause, but he...
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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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