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The Washington Bulb Company has agreed to the demands of workers after a three-day strike.

From Activision to Amazon, historic union elections are changing the way that Americans think about work. Now, Apple is the next tech giant to reckon with an employee-driven labor movement.

Fueled by worries about COVID-19 safety and a lack of sick days, Black workers at the two corporate giants are leading the fight for union organizing.

Pilar González Kelly is a sophomore studying public policy at Duke University and long-time reader of Portside. This op-ed is an original submission to Portside.

Gen Z: Young people like you are winning unions at Starbucks and Amazon. The time to join the labor movement and transform the world is now.

The union vote at a second warehouse, a neighboring sorting center known as LDJ5, is set to start April 25, so the company has turned its focus there.

Fordham University graduate workers became the latest New York-based employees to successfully unionize in a landslide 229-15 vote — forming a union with the Communications Workers of America.

When is a lockout a strike? When corporate media says so. The corporate media will always defer to corporate interests because those are the interests that pay its bill. As a result, labour concerns are usually either downplayed or ignored. 

A majority of Harrisburg Area Community College faculty members in Pennsylvania have voted yes to forming a union.

In a Wednesday job posting, Starbucks said it was looking for a director of corporate counsel for labor with experience in "strike contingency planning."