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

A separate election held last month gave a nascent group of organizers a surprise victory when workers at a different Staten Island facility voted in favor of unionizing — a first for Amazon in the U.S.

Union organizers are hoping for a repeat success after workers at a nearby Staten Island warehouse voted in Amazon’s first U.S. union earlier this month. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.

Results in the Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse election remain too close to call and hinge on several hundred challenged ballots.

Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, New York, have voted to become the company’s first unionized facility in the U.S., which stands to disrupt the company’s control over productivity and wages.

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.

U.S. union membership levels are ticking upward for workers between 25 and 34, even as they decline among other age groups.

Labor organizers say the unionization of a Starbucks store in Buffalo, New York, could be “the tip of the iceberg.” “The pandemic has laid bare the typical lip service that workers get,” said Christian Sweeney, deputy organizing director of the AFL-CIO labor union. “There’s been lots of praise for people doing grunt work,” but few worker gains, he said. ...

Starbucks workers at a store in Buffalo, New York, voted to unionize on Thursday, the latest sign that the labor movement is stirring after decades of decline

Workers at three Starbucks stores in Buffalo, New York, will hold union elections next month after winning a case before the National Labor Relations Board

Starbucks is giving workers a raise, as restaurants nationwide are struggling to find enough people to serve customers.

President Joe Biden spoke at a union event in Michigan on Tuesday to rally support for his infrastructure and “Build Back Better” bills, saying, “The first is a bill to invest in our physical infrastructure, and the second is a bill to invest in our human infrastructure … these bills are not about left versus right.”

The South has never been hospitable to organized labor

The House has approved Democratic legislation that would invigorate workers’ unions following decades of court defeats and legislative setbacks.

A union leader who Gov. Andrew Cuomo once called “a good friend to me and my entire family” has extensive ties to organized crime and should not be granted lighter bail conditions, federal prosecutors said Monday. Cuomo’s office called the new allegations against James Cahill “ugly” and “disturbing” and said anyone who breaks the law should be held responsible....

The president of the New York State Building and Construction Trades Council, which represents more than 200,000 unionized construction workers, is among 11 labor officials indicted Thursday on charges including racketeering and fraud. Federal prosecutors allege James Cahill, president of the Trades Council and an executive council member of the state AFL-CIO, accepted bribes to act in favor of non-union…

New York City has entered into a “historic” agreement with construction unions, of the building trades, to provide union jobs and access to union apprenticeships to low-income and minority New Yorkers on city projects as part of the Community Hiring NYC initiative, Mayor Bill de Blasio said. De Blasio said that the construction business is “an area where huge amount…