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Hospitality workers enjoy unusual clout in Nevada, where the powerful Las Vegas culinary union is rallying members to tip close races.

The university’s statement affirms it will honor Local 33’s petition for an official election via secret ballot while maintaining a commitment to academic supervisors’ freedom to express opinions on unionization.

Starbucks workers at Houston's first unionized store held an unfair labor practices strike on Saturday to demand the reinstatement of a worker they say was fired in retaliation for leading unionizing efforts.

Baristas nationwide are remarkably organized. Is the company’s C.E.O., Howard Schultz, using firings, store closures, and legal delays to thwart them?

The Apple store unionization vote comes against a backdrop of other labor organizing efforts nationwide — some of them rebuffed.

The union alleges that Apple has violated labor laws and made a fair election impossible. A vote was scheduled for next week. If successful, it would have been the first unionized Apple store in the United States.

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.

A group of agricultural workers on Long Island has formed New York’s first farmworkers union—a landmark move that was the result of decades of activism.