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Support for unions is on the rise as workers take action to raise pay and conditions amid booming company profits.

In an 11-3 vote, workers at the Starbucks on South Shepherd near West Alabama in Houston voted to form a union on Thursday.

Our government has the tools to address the cost-of-living crisis. It just needs to use the right ones.

Farms are dangerous workplaces. Grain silos are well known death traps that kill dozens of workers, often children, every year.

The 1199SEIU president talked about how the old guard can learn from people like Amazon Labor Union President Chris Smalls.

Workers at a Home Depot store in Northeast Philadelphia have filed paperwork to unionize — launching an unexpected campaign that, if successful, could mark the largest collective bargaining unit to date at any branch of the global home improvement retailer.

Domestic workers were excluded from the 1935 National Labor Relations Act. Colorado joins a few states that give rights to domestic workers (including people who care for children, tend gardens and clean other people’s homes).

The uptick in union organizing at brands like Amazon and Starbucks has rightly drawn attention from mainstream media. But worker organizing is underway at companies you’ve never heard of, too — and drawing little attention from outlets like the New York Times.

A three-day strike by Wisconsin nurses is off this week, after SEIU Healthcare Wisconsin and UW Health (the University of Wisconsin's medical system) reached an agreement on a path toward the potential recognition of the union.

Thanks to grassroots organizing, which much of the media is ignoring, minor leaguers will now join the Major League Players Association.