Labor unions

Starbucks workers around the U.S. have begun a three-day strike. The walkouts are part of their effort to unionize the coffee chain’s stores. Starbucks Workers United says more than 1,000 baristas at 100 stores are planning to walk out. The strike will be the longest in the year-old unionization campaign. More than 264 of Starbucks’ 9,000 company-run U.S. stores have...

Members in four of the 12 unions involved had rejected the proposed contract as lacking sufficient paid sick leave. The President acknowledged the shortcoming as he said he would continue to push for that benefit for every U.S. worker.

A federal judge has ordered Amazon to stop retaliating against employees engaged in workplace activism, issuing a mixed ruling that also hands a loss to the federal labor agency that sued the company earlier this year. The ruling came in a court case brought by the National Labor Relations Board, which sues Amazon in March seeking the reinstatement of a...

Starbucks workers at more than 100 U.S. stores are on strike Thursday in their largest labor action since a campaign to unionize the company’s stores began late last year.

Railroads and union representatives had been in negotiations for 20 hours at the Labor Department on Wednesday to hammer out a deal, as there was a risk of a strike starting on Friday that could have shut down rail lines across the country.

Labor Day is a national holiday dedicated to celebrating the contributions and achievements of American workers. Here’s a history of the holiday from the U.S. Department of Labor.

The Towson, Maryland store is not one of Apple’s so-called “flagship” stores. It’s a smaller location inside a mall that serves a local population.

The U.S. is experiencing a labor shortage that’s partly fueled by a drop-off in immigration, which ground to a halt during the coronavirus pandemic.

The second Amazon union vote on Staten Island failed. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.

Pilots have been in contract negotiations with the airline for nearly three years and the two sides are at an impasse.

The outcome represents a landmark win for organized labor, which has for years tried to organize Amazon warehouse and delivery workers.

In a union election in Staten Island, New York, the nascent Amazon Labor Union was leading late Thursday by more than 350 votes out of about 2,670 tallied.

Warehouse and store employees seeking union membership feel they have no seat at the table, and they’ve put companies on notice.

JetBlue and other airlines are hiring thousands of employees to cater to a snapback in travel demand.

The growing union push will be one of the challenges that incoming interim CEO Howard Schultz will have to tackle when he assumes the role on April 4.

Major airlines last rolled out incentive pay ahead of the year-end holidays to stem a staffing shortage.

The Seattle location is the seventh company-owned Starbucks cafe to vote in favor of unionizing under Workers United.

American and Southwest last year delayed plans to bring back alcohol because of assaults on crew members.

Carriers are scrambling to hire and train staff to match surging travel demand.

A new Labor Department report finds “occupational segregation” is costing women billions of dollars.