Unions

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.

Southern California grocery workers voted “overwhelmingly” to ratify a new three-year contract with Stater Bros. Voting is scheduled later this week on a tentative deal with Ralphs and Vons, Pavilions and Albertsons.

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

Talks resumed Saturday between Southern California grocery store workers and stores including Ralphs and Vons/Pavilions/Albertsons. The worker’s union has already authorized a strike if no new contract deal is reached.

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.

Unionized grocery store workers around SoCal are voting on whether or not to strike for better working conditions, after a labor contract expired and negotiations for the next contract stalled.

The unionized grocery store workers are demanding better benefits, wages and labor practices. Lauren Coronado reports for Today in LA on Monday, March 21, 2022.

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

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

The union for non-tenured UC faculty members reached a “historic” agreement with the University of California over contracts, averting a two-day walkout.

Two years of negotiations came to a triumphant end, as union faculty members in the University of California system reached a tentative agreement on non-tenured faculty contracts. The deal averted a 6,000-person walkout. Toni Guinyard reports for Today in LA on Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021.

The message has been “get the shot by Dec. 18th, or expect to get terminated.” We are now seeing the backlash against mandatory vaccine requirements of city workers in Los Angeles. NBC4’s Conan Nolan talks with Freddy Escobar, President of United Fighters of Los Angeles City, which this week filed suit to stop the vaccine requirement for its members.

A tentative deal was reached Saturday between Kaiser Permanente and union leaders that will prevent a strike by thousands of nurses and other health care workers who were planning to hit the picket line Monday.

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.”

Negotiations resumed Thursday between the union representing more than 1,500 health care workers at USC-affiliated health care facilities and call centers and the university, one day after the announcement of the authorization of a five-day strike next month.

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.