State and local government employees in Virginia are poised to gain the right to collectively bargain under a pending bill. But home care and campus workers aren't included.
About 560 Starbucks locations have voted for union representation since the first vote to unionize four years ago, according to the union Starbucks Workers United.
“People are at very great risk of dying on the job already,” Rebecca Reindel, the AFL-CIO union’s occupational safety and health director, said. “This is something that is only going to make the problem worse.”
With huge shifts over the past decade in the way doctors are employed — half of all doctors now work for a health system or large medical group — the idea of unionizing is not only being explored but gaining traction within the profession.
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace has funneled resources into a new pharmacy guild, hiring organizers and launching a website – which crashed the first day when more than 30,000 people tried to visit.
Josh Eidelson and Gabrielle Coppola
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The UAW’s newish president won Detroit auto workers their best deals in decades. Now he’s out to organize Tesla and the rest of the industry’s EV jobs.
Pending cases could boost the potency of worker strikes, expand the scope of labor law protections, and make other changes that bolster worker and union power.
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