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

Young people in the labor movement want to bargain on climate issues in contract negotiations.

The union push comes as public opinion about organized labor is the most positive in decades. A Gallup poll last year found that 68% of Americans approve of unions, the highest share since 1965.

Workers in Ithaca say closure represents pure opposition from Starbucks, whose CEO says he will "never embrace the union."

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

Over the course of the pandemic, the vast majority of essential workers were women. The vast majority of those who lost their jobs in the pandemic were women. And now the vast majority of those organizing their workplaces are women.

The nontenure-track faculty, like other staff members at the school and the museum, are organizing with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.

Since the Great Recession, the college-educated have taken more frontline jobs at companies like Starbucks and Amazon. Now they’re helping to unionize them.

More than 100 locations across the country are trying to establish unions